CONFESS!!!! Where were you when the clock struck midnight on you 21 bday?

[LynneSin]

In LBN, someone posted that a legislature wants to pass a law that says you can't actually start drinking until after 8am on the day of your birthday (to prevent folks just turning 21 going on a drinking binge at midnight).

I remembered my 21st birthday - I was in Ocean City Maryland with my 3 best friends (who I'm still good friends with to this day). I was the only person NOT 21 so we started drinking early at our condo, then went to some dumpy little bar where they wouldn't card me. When I turned 21 at midnight we went to the nightclub they use to have at the Embers on 21st street in OCMD (I forget the name of it). I spent the night sucking face with some cute guy from the Naval Academy and the rest is all pretty vague.

The next day we went to the Ocean Club on 47th street where they took our picture for one of the local weekly. I still have that picture from my 21st birthday!

So confess where were you and what were you doing when the clock struck midnight on your 21st birthday (or 18 if you happen to be either really old or live in a country that doesn't have such dumbass laws)

[bleedingheart]

1. hmmm...My Sugar Daddy took me out

when I turned 21, I was dating a man who was about nine years older than me. He took me to a fine restaurant and gave me beautiful amethyst earrings and then took me to a bar for a few moments...the rest I won't talk about.

:evilgrin:

[SCDem]

2. I was being carded by a bouncer at Group Therapy

Group Therapy of course is a bar in town. He was almost not going to let me in and then he looked at his watch. He was the first one to tell me Happy Birthday too!

[sniffa]

3. waiting outside a bar in amherst, ma

i can picture it, but can't remember the name of it.

[XNASA]

4. The drinking age in Illinois was 19 when I turned 21.

So it was no big deal and I can't recall.

[xmas74]

5. Hanging out in a bar w/ some newly-made drag queen

friends. They dolled me up and got me really drunk.

[CornField]

6. Probably sleeping

LOL!

[Jokerman]

7. My 21st was on a Sunday

So at 12:00 I was in a bar for the first time (legally) and ordering my first (legal) drink.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Man, I don't even remember.

[JimmyJazz]

9. In Delaware, you would not be served at midnight on your 21st birthday.

I'm almost positive of that - even though it's been a few years for me.

[LynneSin]

11. When I was 21, Delaware was the boring state we had to drive through

to get from Harrisburg to OCMD.

Never thought I'd actually end up living in the state

[Worst Username Ever]

10. I was at a minneapolis bar preparing for my power hour. Seriously.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Lying on my back on a sidewalk in front of

Sneakers, a now-defunct sports bar in College Station, TX.

My soon-to-be husband was trying to pick me up but I wasn't helping much. I was laughing really hard.

At least that's what I was doing somewhere AROUND midnight. I got started early.

[prolesunited]

13. Drunk

and lighting off Roman candles out of my 9th floor dorm room window.

I guess I could have gotten expelled if I got caught, but it seemed like a fun idea at the time. Did I say I was drunk? I really can't emphasize that enough.

[Atlas Mugged]

14. In a bar in Missoula, Montana

Right there in Hell's Gate Canyon. It was sort of anticlimactic since I came from Seattle, where the drinking age was 21, but it was 18 in Missoula at the time. Everyone kept buying me drinks, of course, and I did something I've done on a few other occasions since: I drank myself sober. Seriously. I wasn't high, happy or anything at all. Just stone cold sober. Didn't even get a hangover, which I sure the hell didn't miss. Reminds me of the Fuggs' song 'I Couldn't Get High'.

[Sporadicus]

15. I Was in a Hotel Room...Alone

I was traveling to Portland, Oregon, and stopped for the night at a hotel somewhere in western Arkansas, just off I-40. I had a couple of drinks in the bar, but prospects looked dim for making anyone's acquaintance. Went to my room, where I'm sure I was asleep by midnight.
:nopity:

[SarahB]

16. At home with my 11 month old daughter.

Hubby was working. None of my firends did anything. :shrug:

[GalleryGod]

34. Sorry, 'Belle!

That's So Sad:hug:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. Sleeping. n/t

[steve2470]

18. probably in a bar on Church Street in downtown O-town

dancing the night away with pretty ladies doing the Hustle.

[loudestchick]

19. Somewhere around midnight I tried to climb over the bar at The Levee

in Kansas City to give the bartender a hug 'cause..."I love you, man!" Fortunately, the bartender was a friend of my date/friend with benefits Craig. Eventually, the two of them had to help me to the car.

[fit4life]

20. Morehead City, North Carolina

Standing in a gas station with a case of Budweiser waiting for midnight to hit. I was already lit from a bottle of Absolut vodka, but I wanted to buy some alcohol!

I woke up the next morning in my underwear under a mattress with magic marker and shaving cream all over me. I have no real memory of the events that precipitated that situation.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. At BW3 on Short Vine.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

22. I was in line at the grocery store with an entire shopping cart

Filled with liquor and beer to take back to my birthday party.

I wanted to buy a lot for my first legal purchase. So I finally got up to the cashier, and she didn't card me!!

After I paid, I asked her about it. She explained to me that no one underage would be trying to buy that much booze all at once. I explained to her that I was just barely legal and that I wanted to be carded. And so she did.

[LynneSin]

23. Don't feel bad - they didn't card me either

:cry:

What a let down

[Tyrone Slothrop]

26. I didn't feel *that* bad

But I did wish that the 19-year-old-me had known that he could stroll into County Market and purchase a cart full of beer, no questions asked...

[yvr girl]

24. It's 19 here in BC

I have no recollection of what I did for that birthday. I was allowed to drink at home - had been for years - so it was no big deal. I think I worked and then went to a Super Bowl party.

[Allenberg]

25. Working

in the basement of a government agency on a midshift.

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

27. Where was I?

At a gay bar (which no longer exists) in Madison, Wisconsin. Didn't have such a great time, either. Are you offering to give me my money back?

[BikeWriter]

28. VietNam!

[beyurslf]

29. Thurs night. Standing in line at the hottest club downtown waiting till

midnight to go in. They had 3-4-1 you call it on Thurs nights. I suppose you might say I did a little "binge" drinking.

[short bus president]

30. Major Brew in Nashville, TN

asshole made me wait the 3 minutes to midnight, too.

[Historic NY]

31. It was legal way back when in NY at age 18.....but I do remember

my first legal drink on my 18th b-day was in the Fireside Bar...a dive now gone. I of course had a rum & coke.

[blondeatlast]

32. In the hospital with THE flu of the time (I take insulin,

so it hit me especially hard).

I was on some good drugs, though... does that count?!

[dean_dem]

33. Drunk, obviously.

And I had a job interview the next morning. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.

[Lone Pawn]

35. A year and a half from now.

[gollygee]

36. I was at a birthday party but I had the flu very very badly

I felt like I had to go to the party even though I was sick since it was a birthday party and I appreciated my friends throwing me a party.

But I slept through most and was very uncomfortable due to the flu through the rest of it.

[tigereye]

37. I don't remember

that's not good, is it? ;)

[skippythwndrdog]

38. At the Airport...sad.

[the Princess]

39. Drunk in a bar in New Jersey

In 1980 the drinking age was raised from 18 - 21 but those of us who had already had the right to drink were grandfathers in. So June 30, 1981 my 21st. birthday - I was drunk in a bar in NJ somewhere. LOL

[n2mark]

40. Do you really want to know?

I was in the convent at the time, praying for all of you! I would pray daily for those who I would ever have any contact. Guess I prayer for you without knowing it.

You asked, you got your answer.

[Zuni]

41. Lynne-I was in Ocean City, MD as well on my 21st

I was drunk as shit with my friends and a bunch of girls. At one point one of my friends, Clint, lit his hand on fire with grain alcohol on accident.
We didn't go to bars. We just brought the party to a place that several girls I knew had on bayside. A whole bunch of other girls came from their work.
I was around 118th street. I ended up skinny dipping with one of the girls and fooling around.

I honestly don't remember much.

[DS1]

42. Hudson, MA

"somewhere"

[ElaineinIN]

43. Rathskeller, Kenmore Square, Boston

Alas, it has been "modernized"

[ElaineinIN]

44. Rathskeller, Kenmore Square, Boston

Alas, it has been "modernized"

[Beaverhausen]

45. I was 'shrooming

I had been drinking for years.

[Left Is Write]

46. In bed.

I was the mother of a newborn child at the time.

However, I got legal to drink at 19, so the 21st birthday wasn't a very big deal.

And I just went and reread your post and saw the part about being "very old." I am only 38, thank you! LOL.

I don't know where I was when the clock struck midnight on my 19th birthday, but I'd say there's a good chance I was at home in bed.

[Withywindle]

47. Can't remember - too drunk!

I think I was in Baltimore.

Edit: No, wait, it was New York. Definitely New York.