01-13-2016, 05:36 PM
(01-13-2016, 04:45 PM)Duchess Wrote:
How old were you the first time you bought alcohol, either by going into a store for it or going into a bar and ordering a drink?
17, I was traveling through upstate New York and stumbled across a hick bar. Stayed for a week.
17, I was traveling through upstate New York and stumbled across a hick bar. Stayed for a week.
(01-13-2016, 05:21 PM)Maggot Wrote: Armand at hilltop store would give me 6 packs and cigarettes to give to my Mom and Dad when I was 10, I would strap them onto my newspaper basket and coast down Broadway chewing sunripe orange gum. I guess handing over money and getting product would be considered "buying" even though it wasn't my money except for the 25 cents I paid for the gum. I earned that.
There was a liquor store in Haverhill, Mass called Kappy's. I used to walk in there and buy a 1⁄5 of bacardi every week for my mother, from the age of 10 until 12 or 13 I think.