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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
That doesn't match my experience. Neither my parents and their friends, nor my friends' parents, were at all bashful about drinking in front of us. I was mixing drinks for my parents and their friends by the time I was 10, between being sent off to the store to buy smokes. My best friend's parents had a boozy darts league in their basement bar every Saturday. Like I said, half the homes in suburban Calgary had a bar in them at one time. But they considered alcohol a social lubricant. Drinking alone was associated with the mean drunk next door who beat his wife, or the depressed housewife who drank wine every day while she watched soap operas. If anything has changed, it's the fact adults with kids socialize with friends and neighbours less often.
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Like I said. They don’t wait till you go to bed anymore.