What People Would Sound Like if They Pressured You to Eat Food Like They Do to Drink Alcohol
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“I don’t care if you don’t like the taste of strawberry. Eat the cake.”
I cut back on drinking in 2019 and the less vodka cranberries I ordered, the more I realized how much people around me cared.
I still like to drink a glass of Pinot Grigio at home or cocktails at a bar to unwind, and I don’t dislike being around others who drink more than me. Sometimes I just don’t find drinking alcohol worth becoming too bloated to eat my tacos before they arrive at my table. And I definitely would rather not wake up the next day questioning if my friends noticed I laughed too long at something they said and what I did that annoyed them that I don’t even remember doing.
The shocked reactions of my friends started to roll in at all times of the day and in any setting. When I began to be judged for ordering water at lunch rather than partaking in a pitcher of beer when I don’t even like beer, I realized no one else cares as much about what other people do than when it comes to alcohol.
In trying to understand why they care so much, I started to wonder what would it sound like if they acted this way with my other choices of consumption. I imagine it would go like this:
