QUOTE(paproud @ Aug 22 2008, 12:14 PM)
To anyone over 21....we were underage once too. Do you really think anyone that young could determine how much booze they can "handle"?
Yes, if they had experience and were taught before they turned 21, 18, 16, 14, 12 (yes, some countries have a 12 year old limit on booze, but it's not enforced).
Experience is that one thing you need right before you get it.
QUOTE(paproud @ Aug 22 2008, 12:14 PM)
I did my heaviest drinking after I turned 21 and still couldn't handle it. Was sick every night I drank. I know kids who never drank and sure made up for it once they got to college. Kids just like to show off and college is a perfect place to do it....no parents. If they would lower it they are just going to want to go out all the more just as they do when they turn 21.
So let's for one moment say I agree with your argument, wouldn't it be better to have them getting insanely drunk where at least their parents will be able to deem if they've had so much they need hospitalization instead of their also drunk friends saying "have another!"?
QUOTE(paproud @ Aug 22 2008, 12:27 PM)
High School grad gifts to consider.....Brand new car of choice (they will accept nothing less) their own insurance policy, oh and a case, no keg of beer.
Sounds good, but I think a fine champaigne is a much better gift for the occasion.
All kids get their own insurance policy when they graduate unless they go to college. Once you graduate, your parent's insurance company often wants the kids to get their own insurance policy, they make more money that way. Health ins. cos will drop you upon graduation.
New car? Hmm, depends on the individual and family, I would not begrudge a brand new car as a grad gift.
Me? I paid for my own car, two years after I graduated, it was new 11 years before I bought it.