| As you're growing up as a teenager, there are a | | | | cool drinking martinis, but let's face it, most kids |
| number of things that you look forward to; | | | | wouldn't know how to make a martini with the |
| getting your drivers license, graduating from high | | | | directions right in front of them. But how hard is it |
| school, going to your senior prom, having your | | | | open up a bottle of beer? Today, with the twist |
| first date and having your first beer. The problem | | | | off caps, it's not hard at all. Beer is convenient. |
| with this last one is that the drinking age and the | | | | That's another reason kids choose it over drinks |
| thing you want make it something that you just | | | | that you have to mix.And where are they getting |
| can't have yet. And still, you want it and will go to | | | | their beer from? Simple. They're getting their beer |
| any lengths to get it.Underage beer drinking is | | | | from their older friends. An 18 year old has no |
| certainly no secret and to try to sweep it under | | | | trouble walking into a liquor store or a bar and |
| the carpet isn't going to make it go away. But the | | | | picking up a six pack. What he does with that six |
| most odd thing about underage drinking when it | | | | pack, which unfortunately many times involves |
| comes to beer is that even after kids sneak their | | | | bringing it to his underage friends, is out of the |
| first beer, they still want to have another one. If | | | | store owner's control. The sad truth is, it's out of |
| you're wondering why that sounds so strange | | | | everybody's control. And as a result, this thing |
| then you need to think back to when YOU had | | | | that kids want, as bad as that prom date, as bad |
| your first beer. It was pretty nasty tasting. Let's | | | | as that graduation, as bad as that driver's license, |
| be honest, beer is bitter and is an acquired taste. | | | | while something they are not ready to have, |
| Very few people, if any at all, enjoyed their first | | | | either legally or emotionally, is delivered, parcel |
| beer. Many even get sick after it because of the | | | | post, right into their underage hands.Maybe if we |
| taste or the fact that they're not used to the | | | | didn't glamorize beer in the movies and on TV; |
| alcohol yet.And still, they want another. Why?Well, | | | | maybe if we didn't have all these cool sports |
| that all comes down to beer being the "cool" thing | | | | stars and movie starts promoting it on |
| to drink when you're a kid. Most teenagers | | | | commercials; maybe if we made kids realize that |
| wouldn't consider sitting down to a gin and tonic. | | | | beer in the hands of a 16 year old is like putting a |
| That's and "old" person's drink. Kids drink beer | | | | gun in his hands; maybe we wouldn't have so |
| because they see the characters on TV and | | | | much underage drinking going on. |
| movies drinking beer. James Bond may have been | | | | |