Ironically it was when I was 14. My parents had a pragmatic open rule: If you're going to try to drink (i.e. we don't want you to drink and we'll punish you if we catch you doing it--but WHEN you raid our stash when we're not looking...) then do it at home.
My older brother's high school friend visited (we'd moved from Houston to north Alabama because that was where my parents' jobs went) when my parents were out of town and the three of us decided to hit the Jack Daniels, rum , Budweiser, and a 2 liter of very flat Dr. Pepper.
I didn't have a clue.
Quick summary--Later I did the math concerning body weight vs alcohol consumption--I'm genuinely lucky that I didn't die that night.
I'd never had more than a few sips of beer before in my life. That night (somehow without puking--dumb teenager luck I suppose) I somehow managed to consume 6 wine glass fulls of Jack Daniels whiskey, 2 wine glass fulls of Rum (learning in the process what "beer chasers" were all about) and to this day I don't recall how I ended up with a certain scar on my left calf.
After a while my brother and his friend went off on their own--drinking and catching up--only to return to the house and discover that they couldn't find me. They (drunkenly but responsibly) went around yelling for me by name (our house was in the country--my dad, while being in the aerospace industry, had grown up on a farm and when we moved he insisted on having a place far out enough from the city to have a "proper garden").
According to what I was told they found me in lying on the ground in the front yard when I "grunted and flopped one arm" in response to them calling for me.
I woke up the next morning (lying on my side) so sick that it took 2 hours before I could turn over without puking.
I didn't touch whiskey again for at least 10 years.
There were other times that I got "legless drunk" though now I can't/shouldn't drink anymore--blood pressure.
Spill!
My older brother's high school friend visited (we'd moved from Houston to north Alabama because that was where my parents' jobs went) when my parents were out of town and the three of us decided to hit the Jack Daniels, rum , Budweiser, and a 2 liter of very flat Dr. Pepper.
I didn't have a clue.
Quick summary--Later I did the math concerning body weight vs alcohol consumption--I'm genuinely lucky that I didn't die that night.
I'd never had more than a few sips of beer before in my life. That night (somehow without puking--dumb teenager luck I suppose) I somehow managed to consume 6 wine glass fulls of Jack Daniels whiskey, 2 wine glass fulls of Rum (learning in the process what "beer chasers" were all about) and to this day I don't recall how I ended up with a certain scar on my left calf.
After a while my brother and his friend went off on their own--drinking and catching up--only to return to the house and discover that they couldn't find me. They (drunkenly but responsibly) went around yelling for me by name (our house was in the country--my dad, while being in the aerospace industry, had grown up on a farm and when we moved he insisted on having a place far out enough from the city to have a "proper garden").
According to what I was told they found me in lying on the ground in the front yard when I "grunted and flopped one arm" in response to them calling for me.
I woke up the next morning (lying on my side) so sick that it took 2 hours before I could turn over without puking.
I didn't touch whiskey again for at least 10 years.
There were other times that I got "legless drunk" though now I can't/shouldn't drink anymore--blood pressure.
Spill!