i was a teen i did, cuz i wanted to and thought i was cool. I find no humor in a falling down, slobering crying drunk, it literally makes me want to puke. I am lucky if i drink twice a year, and then i can get drunk on a half bottle of beer. I am glad i have no tolerance for alcohol. You would think, me being the only spawn from a set of drunks, that i would be one too. I saw to much when i was small, way to much for a child to ever have to see. This is probably the reason why i hate drinking so much. I saw the devestation that it caused and the lives it ruined. You can support an alcoholic (if you want) but actually trying to get them to stop is another thing. They have to want to come off the sauce and they have to be counciled, continually. _________________ my mum is similar to all of yours, infact she has just left to go to the shop for the third time for a bottle of wine. She always lies and thinks i am oblivious to teh fact that she is drinking, my mum isnt so bad as that she starts drinking as soon as she gets up its normally after iv had my tea and i go and sit to do my own thing my mother hits the bottle. She blames her drinking on being lonely and me not