I remember as a 15 year old sneaking intoa pub, sending my older cousin to the bar and me sitting in the corner quiet as a mouse shitting it incase I got caught.
I'd then sneak out to pub and go home quiet as a mouse for the same reason.
It added to me 'behaving myself'.
Did the barman see me? Perhaps. But what good would singling me out have done?
I think something's happened in cracking down on this and that and creating a problem through the old 'forbidden fruit' bit, somehow. Silly patronising poster campaigns etc. It's had a disastrous consequence.
Nowadays there is an element of drinking out of defiance, which I never did, I did it because I was ready to. I wasn't tied to some pack mentality like happnes now. We've castigated our yoof and now they're back with avengence, some of them.
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