What qualifies as "binge drinking" to you?

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Seventeen hours after I got a DWI (.032) and fourteen hours after my last drink I was taken to the base security office and given a breathalyzer - it was at .017).

The guy that took me to the base security office was trying to scare me, and it worked.

I sold my car.

Binge drinking as defined for that survey kills off 10-20 high school and college students a year just from alcohol poisoning. Nobody knows how many it kills off because they try to drive, they try to walk, they find themselves talking shit to the wrong people in the wrong part of town.

College students, on average, are in their late teens and early 20s. In other words, they are dumber than a box of rocks. To paraphrase the old song, "They're still young, it's there fault, there's so much they have to go through..."

Now, the odd thing is, most of them live through it without somebody like Voo having to notify a NOK.

USUALLY people mature, and begin to moderate.

Not everyone does, and not everyone who doesn't has a problem with alcohol (me, I seldom met a substance I couldn't abuse). Some aren't drunks - they are just stupid.

Me, I gave it up because life got just too damned exciting. One day I could drink everybody under the table and still be going at it when they got back up, and the next day I'd start drinking in St. Louis, only to find myself up in Grogan's neighborhood four days later without a clue (other than ticket stubs and credit/ATM receipts) as to how I got there.