Name:   Buteye - Subject:   First kid caught smoking pot Date:   8/11/2016 6:18:32 PM (updated 8/11/2016 6:29:47 PM)

I agree, a glass of sweet, cold ice tea is better than any alcoholic beverage I ever tasted. Between the wife and I we go through a gallon of Liptons tea a day in the summer time. I also drink a a cup of hot tea every morning at breakfast. As for as temptations go for younger people to follow the crowd, it all comes down to one thing, can you be your own man or woman? I don't claim to be someone who has never strayed in life and I am not trying to pull my own chain, but I offer the following situation in my high school days as evidence that you don't have to follow the crowd. I attended a small public high school in Alabama, was quarterback on the football team and was a year younger and the smallest one on the team. Occasionally after a night practice I would go along with four or five of the older guys to a bootleggers house where they would buy a beer. I was always seated in the back of the car by the window and I would turn up my bottle as everyone else did, but since it was dark I was not drinking my beer, so when everyone threw out their empty bottles I would follow suit and throw out my full bottle of beer. To this day I still do not like the taste of beer and do not drink alcoholic beverages. I don't dislike people who drink, but I have never known of any case where drinking has had a positive affect on anyones life. As an example I offer up Philip Lutzenkirchen, an Auburn football player with a promising NFL career, who died in an automobile accident in LaGrange, Georgia on June 30, 2014 along with his friend who was the driver of the car. As for as smoking pot, we used to smoke grapevine under the loading dock at the train depot. And no, you are not weird and I am 76.