Stories of turning 21

[TacoSmith]

I second the motion. Nitrous in all its form is a totally f-ing stupid thing to do.

Even at the dentist?

[johnfgillson]

I started school a year earlier than all my friends so when I turned 21 I knew only one person of age (well at least only one that I would enjoy drinking beer with). Then, on my wifes 21st she came down to the cities and we went to a bar at midnight and they told us they have a policy of not serving 21 year olds until the next business day. This was at the time when bars closed at 1am, so by the time we drove to a bar we knew she would get served at it was almost last call. So my advice is have older friends and plan the night ahead of time... and don't spend it in the suburbs of Minnesota. Getting drunk on your 21st shouldn't be such a task.

[John Junk]

I drank a lot.  I was in Scotland with a lot of friends visiting me.  Long story.  But my actual girlfriend couldn't make it.  Some girls were hitting on me hard, but I turned them down because I am chivalrous!  And then they made fun of me. I think I went dancing and crap.  I remember being insanely hung over so that I felt I couldn't join my companions for lunch.  Then I stepped outside to the Edinburgh air (relatively fresh---better than L.A.!) and felt instantly better!  Then I jogged to the restaurant they were staying at, like "I'm better!" Then stepped insdie and wanted to vomit.  Then drank an Irn Bru and ate a hamburger and felt okay.

The End.

[Amplituden]

We call it "turning 19" here in Canada.

[Sarah]

Turning twenty-one wasn't a milestone for me.  Three years before, however, I do recall sitting in a bar a month or so after my birthday, and a bouncer casually saying to me, "You're eighteen, now, right?" (that was the legal drinking age back in those olden days).  I'd been going there since I was fifteen.