<p>I am in awe over the persistence of kids to get inebriated. 
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<p>Well thanks to the news for pushing this down from high school to middle.
Sheesh, is there no thought to responsibility.?</p>
<p>We started carrying round hand sanitizer when my husband started chemo. I can’t imagine drinking it. Eew.</p>
<p>Bunch of adults trying to spread the practice. There are tens of thousands of teens visiting ERs each year from drinking Captain Morgan. There were exactly six cases in one location (San Fernando Valley) spread out over a couple of months. But now a bunch of adults have decided that kids across the country really need this information so they won’t take the booze out of their parents’ liquor candidates. </p>
<p>(For the record: I checked this morning - there are NO such cases reported to the Recovery Hotline and NO such cases reported by any ER in Washington State. But I bet there will be now.)</p>
<p>How can they… ugh that stuff is vile smelling… i can’t imagine drinking it.</p>
<p>Well, I used to think whiskey and rye were vile smelling too. I don’t anymore.</p>
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<p>that was my first thought</p>
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<p>that was sort of my second thought…except that I think they taste strong and vile!</p>
<p>When I was a kid, we weren’t as creative, we didn’t distill sanitizer or sniff glue or huff pressurized air…we didn’t need to. There was always plenty of liquor around if you wanted some, either “borrowed” from some parents liquor cabinet or had someone’s big brother buy it at 7-11.
My parents didn’t have a liquor cabinet & while I usually have a bottle of wine someplace, I don’t have more than that around.
I worry more about kids taking random medication not knowing what it is or where it came from.
I think most kids are too busy for all this, aren’t they?</p>
<p>Listerine (50 proof).
Vanilla extract (or any other extract) (70 proof).</p>
<p>I’ve known the alcohol content of these since I was in 7th grade. </p>
<p>But it was much easier and cheaper to go for the Scotch in my parents’ liquor cabinet.</p>
<p>Which is why our liquor cabinet was locked when our kids were in high school. I didn’t worry about them, but I did worry about their friends saying “your parents wouldn’t know.”</p>
<p>I wonder how many little alcohol swab pads one would have to suck on to get drunk. We have a bunch of those.</p>
<p>I think most kids are too busy for all this, aren’t they? </p>
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<p>No. I know plenty of kids who are not all that busy. It’s just CC kids and kids of CC parents who are that busy. 
Kidding aside, though, I heard plenty of stupid-high stories when I was substitute teaching. The kids were pretty upfront about the things they did, and when I told them how stupid it was, they told me I “wouldn’t understand.” Yeah, like I was never young (in the 60’s/early 70’s, yet).</p>
<p>About 10-12 years ago, a small group of young teens in our neighborhood swilled a ton of cough syrup and terrorized kids on Halloween. A studly young dad stood up to them, and they beat him up. Stupid, stupid stuff.</p>