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Purchasing alcohol for minors, tut tut
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Now I'm sure this isn't that big of deal as it is here. But I just want opinions anyways. For the young ones who have it bought for them, do you feel embaressed or stupid asking? For those of you buying, do you think its a big deal? Do you care? I always am asking somebody to buy some fore me, usually my friends husband or my boyfriend. But even now, like 5 years of practice I still am not comfortable with it. Even asking my boyfriend, I get real embaressed. I feel just absoutly stupid doing it, like they are judging me or thinking I'm lame. I'm not sure. So what are the opinions of others on both sides?
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Now I'm able to buy alcohol for myself I have bought drinks for a couple of underage friends, but I don't really think it's wrong. I mean, yeah it legally is, but they are only a few months younger than me, and they know what they are doing.
We can get it from 18. I haven't bought on behalf of randoms but of course I did for underage friends when we were 16/17/18. I wouldn't buy cheap cider or spirits but proper alcohol, no probs.
Well this makes me feel better though. THe people I ask say its fine and they have no problem with it, they could care less, but I still always felt guilty. But now the more people that agree that its no biggie it may make it easier. See, I ran out yesterday and I want more tonight, so I'm sending emails to the man all beating around the bush all shy and nervous about it.
I have done the same it was my 18yh birthday and I invited the girls from work one was not quite 16, but as we had told the resturant that it was for an 18th birthday party I think they just assumed that we where all at least 16. But she was only about a month away from turning 16 and we where very seniable about the amounts we where drinking and did not up set the other people there.
I've been having the odd drink since the age of about 11-12 but at that age it was only at family functions and it would only be one small drink from my dad, or a small drinkat christmas time. Since I was about 15 I would have a glass of wine nearly every Sunday with our roast. I still don't normally have a more then two or three drinks at anyone time even when I got out now and I'm 21. I think this was because I was brought up to respect alcohol.
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I have bought for under age kids in Canada, they seemed sensible enough not to get too wasted and I knew them.
I've never bought alcohol for random minors but i've bought loads of people who i've know are underage but thats normally been to drink with them though and outside of a pub you can legally drink if your with a responsible adult and over the age of 5 so its not even illegal either ;}. Though i have also bought alcholol for people who are underage in pubs as well and I once got caught buying for minors in an off licence - they came out to the car and demanded that we give them back the alchol becuase there were people underage in the car with us not even having any proof that we were going to give it to them.....
Blimey, better not take the kids with me in future then!
Seriously though that is a bit daft. You should've told them to fuck right off!
Exactly I would have done, goods have been sold nothing they can do ?
I bought for my 13yd old cousion when I was 19, he got drunk with all his mates threw up everywhere got grounded for 2 weeks, he didnt grass me up though.
When my brother was 16 Id force him to get drunk ha ha.
It seems really daft to me that you're older than me, yet can't buy alcohol.
I think it was mainly the shock that they even dared to do it meant we didn't question it.
Plus we were on our way to a joint end of gcse/a-levels party so technically the alchol was going to people who were underage and I think we were worried they would call the police with the car reg.
Similar thing happened to me and my mates....
My friends parents were organising a party. (Bear in mind, that me and my friends weren't included in the party, we were off out for the night, but were waiting there)
It got down to last minute preparations and his mum asked him to go and buy a list of drink from Tesco (he's 18). Since me and my boyfriend were with him, we said we'd go with.
All a bit hyper, we went into Tesco having a giggle at my friend walking with his hat backwards and talking his own version of French. The security guard gave us a glance and proceeded to follow us. We went to the alcohol aisle, and helped him pick to out the drink. We were ID'd on the spot in the aisle by the security guard so my friend showed his licence. When me and my boyfriend were asked we said 'well, no, we don't have it, we're not 18, but we aren't buying it.'
My friend explained the situation and even offered to call his mum to confirm it with her but no. He wasn't allowed to buy it.
To this day, we announce very loudly 'Don't worry, we'll get the booze at ASDA' when shopping there. How daft?
Such things never happen here though. I haven't even heard of an age limit on buying drinks.
Fuck off!
I never hung around with the kind of people that hung around off-licences when I was younger. I think kids asking adults to break the law for them is a bit cheeky. I suppose for residents of the good ole USA its different, but I didn't mind waiting until I was 18 before taking up drinking.