The drink that wasn't

I think it was in the year 2005 that alcohol touched my virgin lips for the first time. I guess I wanted to wait till I earned my first salary before I experiment. I remember that I had 30 ml of vodka mixed with sprite. I really couldnt understand what the fuss was all about. I didnt feel any different. I know 30 ml is not supposed to make any difference. I decided to try a bit more some days later.

The next thing I tried was beer. It just took one sip to decide that that was the last time I would be having beer. The taste was really weird and I still cant understand what makes people go crazy over it.

Champagne was the next drink. I was in Eindhoven and everyone in the office was offered champagne to celebrate some event. I have never been able to form an opinion on it since it was a confusing drink. It tasted weird in a good way!

I then tried red wine in the Air France flight from Paris to Bangalore. This I can say is cough syrup gone stale. Why on earth would people want to drink it is something I will never understand. Anyway I have decided to stay away from it.

Then I had tequilla shots. Now this is a strange drink. I was asked to squeeze some lemon to let the juice trickle down my throat and then have a shot and immediately eat salt. I had two shots and for the first time felt that I had lost a bit of control on my senses. Maybe just for 10 minutes. Again somehow the drink didnt appeal to me. Why would anyone take the pain of having lemon, salt and the shot and then lose control over your senses. And pay for doing all this. I decided not to touch it again.

Then yesterday I had gone out with a couple of friends. My friend ordered some plain ice-tea. One sip revealed that it had some alcohol in it. He didnt want to touch it again. So I took over and drank the whole thing. I presumed it had just some vodka mixed in it and that would anyway cause no harm. But once I had done with it I felt it had a lot more than just some vodka. A little bit of investigation revealed that it could have had either vodka or while rum or tequilla or a mixture of the three! At least thats what the iced tea on the menu said!

So now I guess I have experimented with everything and have reached a conclusion - plain orange juice for me!!!