MsElui

we used to knock back lots of vodka & lime ( cordial not juice). thought of it now makes me cringe.


I also did a lot of cider in my mid teens and was eventually very ill with it (puking off the side oif the canal boat we were on for a youth trip away!) I couldn't even bear the smell of cider for about 20 years but am happy to say i eventually got over that and love to drink it again now.

Cant do wine- it all tastes like vinegar to me)
But now MY CHOICE IS A NICE g&t OR A CIDER

Sally Redux

Oh OK. Did I misread it or did you edit the date as well?

Anyway, made me feel extremely old

Sally Redux

Yes I liked vodka and lime - in fact I was thinking about it before you posted.

SultanOfSwing

I remember a night of that at my mate's house in my early 20s. He worked at a pub and I was in town for a play rehearsal so I stopped in for a few pints while he finished his shift, then we went halfers on a bottle of Smirnoff from behind the bar and headed back to his place. All he had to mix was a bottle of lime cordial.

I got utterly wankered. Proper shitfaced, too, not nicely drunk which was what I was going for. Jumped in the taxi to go home and he flew at about 70 the whole way. I had a tendency to get severe motion sickness if I was drunk enough. I remember sitting on a little cement planter outside my front door, because I couldn't get the key in the keyhole, as I couldn't focus on it. Then the inevitable happened.

Next morning, my sister was asking why there was bright green sick on the street outside the neighbour's house

SultanOfSwing

I did edit from 2002 to 2001, got it wrong when I typed it. You must have read it before the change.

Nutek

I still feel old.

SultanOfSwing

That wasn't my intention. You can blame my parents for that, they were married ten years before I was born

Sally Redux

That'll teach me to jump on posts so quick.

We went to LA on sabbatical in 2002. Had a great time, should have left it at that

SultanOfSwing

I bought my first car in 2002. Not quite as exciting as your sabbatical, I'm afraid

Nutek

Woodpecker ad's of the time...

Pulaski

That is generally not a feeling that "goes away", or at least when it finally does it is not considered to be a good thing.

SultanOfSwing

Any time my children make me 'feel old', I embrace it. I'd rather feel old, or indeed when the time comes be old, than be like those godawful millennials who are ruining everything these days

Sally Redux

You must be the youngest person on here, apart from Gozit.

SultanOfSwing

I'm 35, I hardly think so

I didn't do my driving test until I was 22, I bought my first car only when I was working and could afford the payments!

Uncle_Bob

I think that Andrew person who is about to experience the joys of moving to America (Arizona) is younger.