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Making excuses for not drinking with friends: GO!

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1. Too hungover from last night
2. Antibiotics
3. Not drinking this month
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  • martialartmummymartialartmummy member
    I say I'm on strong painkillers for my back and they make me feel sick if I drink with them- also then gives me an excuse when I'm feeling sick , and why I'm not training in martial arts as I normally do
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  • jmhansen11jmhansen11 member
    I've been saying I'm on a detox bc I gained a little weight and want to chill on my 1-3 glasses of wine per day habit!
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  • redheaded14redheaded14 member
    SayAnything84 said:
    I fake drink. I am a lush and no one would ever believe any excuse ;)
    ugh, same.  plus my friends and I usually all end up tasting each other's drinks, so that would make it tough.  I'm going to need to practice having some gross cold so no one wants to drink after me.
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  • katie302katie302 member
    I have a bachelorette party on cape cod this weekend...someone's going to find out...haha!
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  • klynn0423klynn0423 member
    I usually fake drink. Order a club soda with a couple limes and everyone will think its a vodka soda.
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  • starshollowstarshollow member
    There is pretty much no excuse my friends would accept from me. I always have wine when we go out. Always.

    I am in the fake drinking camp. If I can order with no one around, I order something that looks like a drink but isn't. At a family BBQ this week, I poured wine and went to the bathroom where I poured it out and replaced it with white grape juice.
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  • drmrsmantisdrmrsmantis member
    Ditto all PPs who have the decoy drink.  I tried to order just a soda while out with FIL and DH one night, and FIL immediately asked if I was KU.  Soda is so not my style.  The next night we had a family wedding and I made a big show of fake drinking to throw people off track.  Now I'm worried they'll think I was really drinking when I finally spill the beans.  


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  • klt2015klt2015 member
    I'm no good because I'm usually someone's drinking partner or object to get drunk. But I work inconsistent shifts so I'm either "working" or have to. "Work the next day".
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  • topaz7777topaz7777 member
    I say I'm still hungover from yesterday.  Kinda helps hide the stomach upset and the fact that I look like I might fall asleep at any moment also.

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  • MagalinaHMagalinaH member
    I actually haven't had to lie yet.  I found a juice that looks just like white wine.  It's apple with white cranberries.  No one had a clue!

    At the bar, I drank sprite with a lime wedge and told people it was a gin and tonic. 
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  • ElizabethSwannElizabethSwann member
    Just fake it. Nothing else works.
    Pour out your beer and fill it with water.

    I got seltzer a w a splash of cranberry.
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  • tbearsangeltbearsangel member
    No ideas that haven't been mentioned, but I'm going to have to fake it hard this weekend while I'm BM in friends wedding. I really don't want to announce and steal any of her thunder on her day, but I'm scared people are going to guess. :/
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  • freespirit91freespirit91 member
    1.)AF just arrived and I'm having some serious nausea and cramps.

    2.)I have a migraine from hell.

    3.)I have food poisoning.
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  • katie302katie302 member
    I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and it was really easy to fake it! My H told the bartender so every time he asked for a coke, he automatically put it in a small glass with a lime.
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  • DuffgurlDuffgurl member
    Just make it a virgin they will never know ;)
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  • Mireille LeBlancMireille LeBlanc member
    I say I'm on antibiotics, which also explains why I'm so tired!
    Or I'm driving. Or, if it's a walk up bar and I can go alone, I ask for cranberry juice and sprite and say it's vodka, cran and sprite.
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  • jenniferaudrey0116jenniferaudrey0116 member
    Head has been hurting, need to work early, had flu symptoms recently, etc. I didn't notice how often everyone drinks until I had to stop!
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  • pmorenowpmorenow member
    yes, I agree with grabbing a beer in a bottle, taking a fake sip with your mouth closed, then going to the bathroom with your beer, dumpin it out and filling with water.  worked for me!
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  • CaileybugCaileybug member
    I have been having the hardest time with this!!! I am a beer drinker through and through. Everyone has been asking why I'm not drinking and I made up a lame excuse every time-pretty sure they all know. And for the fake drinking, I cannot bring myself to waste a beer in secrecy by pouring it out.
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  • nursenikki80nursenikki80 member
    I have neck problems, so I just say I took a muscle relaxant. Luckily I've only had to use that once.
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  • SargeantpepperSargeantpepper member
    There is no excuse for me so I've been hiding lol. The close friends still caught on lol.
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  • carter604carter604 member
    We've been hosting at home or on the boat a lot which has allowed me to play bartender. I love to drink so we would be busted really fast if the excuses started piling up. Any time we are out, hubby or I rope the waitstaff in on our charade and so far have managed to keep things successfully under wraps! It's eye-opening to be the only sober person in a room over the course of the night... Everyone just talks louder and slower and tells the same stories over and over. Looking forward to the mommy phase of my life with this new perspective.
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