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Ohiogal

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5. My parents never had cocktail parties

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 07:47 PM

Jul 2018

My dad was an alcoholic. He started drinking as soon as he walked in the door from work. My mother didn't drink and she hated that my dad drank so much. You could tell as the evening wore on from his behavior how much he had to drink. It embarrassed me and for that reason I rarely had friends over to my house.

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Please explain this to me. [View all] no_hypocrisy Jul 2018 OP

I think partly is it was an inexpensive way Phoenix61 Jul 2018 #1

Cocktail parties? Not in the small cities in the midwest when I grew up rurallib Jul 2018 #2

Alcohol was the only recreational drug available at the time. procon Jul 2018 #3

Sure, The Big Book. elleng Jul 2018 #4

My parents never had cocktail parties Ohiogal Jul 2018 #5

Cigarettes and cocktails in 1965 LakeArenal Jul 2018 #6

My parents rarely drank. It just wasn't their thing. They would buy a bottle of wine to Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #7

My mother was a real estate agent in the 60's HeiressofBickworth Jul 2018 #8

Wine was rare until 1970s unc70 Jul 2018 #9

And the beer that was available back then PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #12

"Sophistication!" 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #10

Cocktail parties were not as common as you might think. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #11