NO FREE DRINKS
When I was in my early teens, my family went to a pig roast with a group that my parents belonged to. Someone kept offering my father a mixed drink, and he kept graciously refusing. Finally, the man thrust a drink into my father’s hand, and my father said “thank you,” and we gradually wandered off. When we were in a less visible place, my father began to pour the drink out on the ground bit by bit. I was shocked. “Why don’t you drink it, Dad?” I asked. “It’s free. You might as well.” But my father replied, “because I don’t drink.” I remember that to this day. It taught me a valuable lesson. It ingrained in my memory that WE don’t drink. I didn’t need to see my father slobbering drunk to learn not to drink. I learned it because of his positive example.
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