Firstly: Thanksgiving dinner would be lovely, if we can afford it then. I'm flat broke right now, but fingers crossed.
Secondly, as long as you're not getting hammered it's perfectly fine for you to drink around us. Drinking sensibly isn't like smoking around people. If you have a glass of wine with dinner you're not forcing the choice on the people around you. There's no second hand buzz from you drinking wine; we don't have to choke on your smoke if you do that. And with one or two drinks like that you're not going to be falling down drunk and being douchey, so that's fine. It's your choice to do that.
I get frustrated with people who have made a conscious decision to become edge and then make a conscious decision to give it up when the primary factors are clearly other people.
I'll admit that I do have a general impatience with people who aren't edge, because I just find it hard to comprehend why anyone would be okay with doing that to themselves, but unless it's someone I feel hugely protective or it's not necessarily going to be a huge problem for me. I'd tease people about it, but ultimately I can't control my friends.
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on 2008-11-04 04:27 pm (UTC)Secondly, as long as you're not getting hammered it's perfectly fine for you to drink around us. Drinking sensibly isn't like smoking around people. If you have a glass of wine with dinner you're not forcing the choice on the people around you. There's no second hand buzz from you drinking wine; we don't have to choke on your smoke if you do that. And with one or two drinks like that you're not going to be falling down drunk and being douchey, so that's fine. It's your choice to do that.
I get frustrated with people who have made a conscious decision to become edge and then make a conscious decision to give it up when the primary factors are clearly other people.
I'll admit that I do have a general impatience with people who aren't edge, because I just find it hard to comprehend why anyone would be okay with doing that to themselves, but unless it's someone I feel hugely protective or it's not necessarily going to be a huge problem for me. I'd tease people about it, but ultimately I can't control my friends.