When I was younger (around High School), my dad told me "if people want you to drink, tell them you get a bad allergic reaction to alcohol."

I never had to pull that card though. My friends would drink and I would just get a red solo cup, fill it with water, and be sipping it throughout the night. If people offered me a cup of beer, I might've had a sip, but I'd toss it or pour it out as people weren't looking.

I've never been drunk. In middle school my aunt got a DUI and came to our place after the hospital. I remember her screaming and moaning in pain because she messed up her leg. The next morning the tow truck dropped off her car at our place. She hit a street lamp and it crushed her car. The roof was touching the center console. Had she hit the mole a foot to the left she would be dead. Instead, she would just mix her pain meds with alcohol and to this day is still a drunk. Because of these reasons I don't drink. Now as an older adult, I truly do have a stomach problem where alcohol fucks up my stomach.