Reasons why I don't like Alcohol

People are generally surprised and\or offended when I tell them I don't drink alcohol. Which is rather bizarre since, why do you care so much about how someone else lives their life? Quite frankly it's no one's business why someone may or may not drink and it gets annoying after a while when someone harasses me every time they see me, trying to get me to drink when I've told them countless times, I don't drink! 

I should just ask these people what food they hate and then just try to get them to eat it, see how they like it!! 

 Anyways... here's why I don't drink.

1. Alcohol tastes disgusting!

2. Hangovers

The idea of having a terrible headache and throwing up next day is not my idea of a good time. Like why would someone want to do something that makes you intentionally sick?! I hate being sick and I don't like throwing up, so why do something that would make it happen?

 I'm scratching my head trying to understand the appeal to alcoholic beverages!

3. People get mad at you because you're not a drinker, or they try to force you to drink.

You have people like my aunt and uncle, who always pester me into trying to get me to drink alcohol. Like any time I see them, they try to force alcoholic beverages on me, and I always say no. In some cases, they make a comment saying they "spiked" my drink, or make some lame joke that it doesn't have alcohol, in a fashion in which they seem disappointing I won't drink...

Sometimes they even hand me a cup randomly, and try to get me to drink what's in it. I'm just like, you know I don't like alcohol, so why are you giving me this? 

One time I even told my uncle, Sorry I'm not an alcoholic like you!

If you're going to be annoying, then I'm just going to get bitchy about it!

 

 

What really pissed me off, is this one time I posted on Instagram that it was my birthday, all of my friends commented saying "Happy Birthday!". My aunt commented on my Instagram saying "Go have a beer". No Happy Birthday, no anything. Just, go have a beer! Seriously?! That comment really bothered me.

My friends don't have a problem with my not being a drinker, and if anything I can be the designated driver! 

(Maybe make some extra cash driving everyone home lol)

This has been going on for years at this point, and it's so frustrating. Like why does it bother them so much that I don't drink? Like it doesn't involve you, so why does it matter?

 We also have had family members who have DIED from alcoholism, so why would you even want to repeat the process?

4. Alcohol can lead to death due to a variety of ways.
When I say this, I don't mean that I'm thinking "I wouldn't drink alcohol because it can lead to death!" That's not what I mean, what I'm saying is due to the effects of alcohol, it can lead to people dying in various ways.

• We've had a distant relative who got so drunk, she passed out in the shower while it was turned on hot and she basically boiled herself to death!

• A recent passing we had, was a cousin who was on painkillers and drank alcohol (The bottles on medicine always say, DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES while taking this item), he literally dropped dead and the only person home was his young teen.

• Not to mention, all of the lives in general lost to Drunk Drivers. There's so much innocent killing that is caused by Drunk Driving. 

Shouldn't someone who doesn't want to drink be praised? Ok so maybe praised is a little narcissistic, but it should at the very least be Respected, Encouraged as a good thing!

One time I was in a car with my friend Donna, and our friends Victor and Val were driving in a separate car. We were in the left lane and Donna spots a car in front of us COMING TOWARDS US!!! Like they were driving the wrong way!! Luckily we were able to get out of the way. Unfortunately, they crashed into an SUV, but the only person that got hurt was the driver (Who died. We found this information out a year later, we didn't witness it happen)

It was a wild experience and a wild thing to happen, fortunately one of the only stories where the innocent weren't killed.

 

5. Alcohol is linked to numerous health issues and can even cause/contribute to Depression, Anxiety, Violent Behavior and many other issues.

If alcohol was a good thing, we wouldn't have things like AA meetings, or countless murders due to it. People complain that Marijuana is a "Dangerous Drug", but in reality, Alcohol is the most dangerous and it's also very legal!

At the end of the day...

I don't care if you drink, just drink responsively and don't try to force non-drinkers to drink, it's not going to happen. Also, don't be rude and say something like WhAt Do YoU mEaN yOu DoN't DrInK?! It's obnoxious!

I can respect that you like to drink, just respect that I don't like it and stop harassing me for it, it's annoying!!!

Also

Here's a blog post I found that I thought was really cool, check it out! (It redirects as a normal link, so I had to make a cached version of it.)
It's okfor people to not drink alcohol and why you should be a dick about it - Use Your Outside Voice

Retail Thieves: You'll never guess what they stole!

They really Tryna test you out there! 

 A girl stole a 25 dollar perfume tester, she was caught by the security guard and was arrested because she already had a warrant for her arrest for a some unrelated reason!..

One of the girls that worked with me at the time said that when she worked at Macys, the thief girl worked there and could have gotten that perfume (Non used) for about the same price as our stores tester.

Going on a Trip in my favorite Rocketship!

A guy throws items in some luggage, wheels the luggage out to the fire exit, the alarm goes off. The manager, saw the whole thing and said there was a car out in the back waiting for them! Like this person was a professional and they knew that employees can't do anything about it, which sucks that they got away with it so easily.

 

Legend of the Equal Opportunity Toucher!!!

He had the same name as me so we called him "EOT" for "Equal Opportunity Toucher". This was because we weren't sure if he was accidentally bumping into people, or if he was "bumping" into people to inappropriately touch them.

One of the girls told me that one time, she got on the loudspeaker and almost said "EOT to the front".

He was so lazy, he'd go into this room by the registers to start texting while the line was longer than the great wall of china!

He finally got his dumb ass fired when he stole 4,000 dollars out of the register, right under the register that had a security camera!

He was escorted out of the building by police, while he was punching himself in the head!

Here's the kicker, he was going to school to be an accountant!

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My Run-Ins with Homophobes

Upon meeting me, people usually think I'm straight just because I'm not running around with a rainbow colored cape and lip singing to Cher. Because of this, I have the privileged of being hidden under the radar and don't deal with homophobes unless they know that I'm gay. But that doesn't mean I haven't had any run ins with homophobes.

Here are three times I ran into a homophobe, which were all things that happened to me at different jobs I worked at. (Also conveniently the first three jobs I had in a row)

"How do you know you're gay if you've never been with a woman?"

At my first job in a mail room, I had a guy ask me how do I know I'm gay if I've never been with a woman. At the time, I didn't know what to say, so I just said that I'm just not into them. If I could go back in time, I'd say "How do you know you're not gay if you've never been with a man!?". Sometimes you have to throw their ignorance back at them!

 

My first Office Job

Story 1:

For whatever reason, some of my coworkers at the time were talking about shootings or something like that during a lunch break.

When we went back to our desks I was telling one of the ladies "Libby" that a 15 year old boy got shot in the face for asking a 14 year old boy out. 

This lady started to laugh hysterically, like it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard in her life. I was mortified, this woman was a monster to think that was funny. 

Story 2:

There was this other time back in 2012 when DC was revealing that one of their characters was gay (It ended up being the Green Lantern, but at the time it was a big reveal everyone was talking about!)

Me and two of the girls were trying to figure out who it was, my work bestie at the time "Gwen" said it couldn't be Superman because Lois would be really mad if he was gay. lol

Gwen asked Libby who she thought the gay superhero could be, Libby got really uncomfortable and started acting weird and she just said she didn't know. Like it was such a weird interaction, that I knew that gay people made her uncomfortable just for existing.

"That's Disgusting!" 

When I was in retail, we had this mentally disabled woman "Coffee" (She had a tendency to drool and I'll never forget the time she had just had some coffee... This scene is ingrained in my brain unfortunately.)

She's not all there in the head, but she's able to drive and she can make some conversation. She can clean up a department, but she also has to ask everyone if she's doing good, and also likes to complain sometimes about how I didn't get anything done (As I tend to get stuck on register, because the lack of cashiers), while there are other days where she says I do such a great job. It was always a mystery with her.

She was talking about runway shows to one of the cashiers, and I said she should watch Ru Pauls drag race, she said she "wouldn't go that far", "that's disgusting". 

I was taken back, even though I live in a much more lgbt friendly area. The homophobia, and Transphobia is still around... and even yet, someone had to specifically have taught her that being gay, or Crossdressing, was wrong and or disgusting. Since she is special needs, I don't think she would have normally come up with such a conclusion unless someone specifically told her to feel that way.

There was another time where I saw a pair of socks with an owl, or some type of animal and I said I wanted them for myself. She said she saw them in the womens section and I should go and look for them.

This comment made me believe that she genuinely wouldn't have an issue with crossdressing or lgbt people, it's just that someone put it into her brain that it was wrong, so when certain words pop up, it just triggers a negative response in her.

After that, I knew what not to say around her. Regardless, this really hit me, and I kept thinking about it for two days after the fact. 

This reminded me as to why I don't tell people my sexuality, until I know they don't have a problem with lgbt people. I don't need the headache! I'm oversensitive, and it'll just bother me for while, like this time.

 

Retail Stories : Urine Trouble!!

Here are some gross bodily fluid related stories that I, or someone I know experienced while in retail.

You pee in it, you buy it!

A customer had their kids running around the store on their own, and one little girl ended up peeing in the little kids potty that we were selling. The supervisor made them pay for it.

Rolling down the river? 

Here is a story my friend told me about their experience in retail.

"Once when I was working at Walmart, a pregnant lady pissed herself in the aisle and just kept shopping like nothing happened. She was literally just doing her shopping while peeing herself leaving a little river of piss down the aisle.

Is that what was for lunch?

Girl throws up on the floor, employee knows what she had for lunch... 

YUCK!

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Why my mom isn't allowed in restaraunts anymore

Yaaas drag her!!!

My mother has a very heavy pocketbook and it contains just about everything. She's like the grandma from Halloweentown played by Debbie Reynolds, who has just about everything in her gigantic purse.

One time, she was at a diner with my dad. (This was before I was born). She went to go to the bathroom and her purse got stuck on a chair without her knowing, by the time she got to the bathroom, she realized she dragged an old lady in this chair all the way to the bathroom!

 

Oops I did it again

My mom has a tendency to get stuck in random places and sometimes won't tell anyone because they'll make fun of her.

When she first started becoming friends with her friend "Airy", she had disappeared and Airy was like, what happened to her? My dad said she probably got stuck somewhere. They go on a search for her and low and behold, she was stuck under the kitchen sink! 

Another time she got stuck between her dresser and only asked for me because I was the only one who wouldn't make fun of her for it. (While my brother and dad would)

Is that a ghost?! No, no it's not

One time, she got scared of her own reflection in the mirror.