One of my friends is in the same boat as me religion wise, he just started drinking about a year ago. He and I have been friends since the first day of junior high, so it was nice to have someone I know that well around. He and his girlfriend (raised Mormon, but left in her teens) just went to a bar after another friend's wedding reception. I wasn't going to drink anything, but I succumbed to evils of peer pressure.
First drink was some horrible cocktail my friend's gf thought I might like. All of us got one, none of us liked it much. I don't remember what it was called, had pineapple juice and some sort of sour mix in it. I thought it was flat out awful. Later had a a hard apple cider, at least I think that's what it was called. That more or less just tasted like apple cider, so I liked it a lot. Had a local brand beer an hour or two after that. Beer more or less tastes like a better flavored version of this gross wheat tea that I had many, many times in Japan. My friends were shocked I didn't mind it.
I don't know, nothing super exciting to report. I felt weird from it all, so maybe I'm a huge lightweight, or it was just a massive shock experiencing it all for the first time this late in life. I thought I'd feel bad about doing it later, was sort of a surprise how little I cared. Probably felt more weird about that specifically than anything else. I don't know weird to explain. Like so many taboo things in Mormonism, it's sort of an emotional shock when you realize these so called "evil" things you've had pounded into your head as long as you can remember seem natural and harmless when you finally do it. If anything, that realization in and of itself is more depressing than anything.
. Obviously, T is time spent drinking/shouting.
