Most of my mates and I had been going to bars in the UK since we were about 15ish anyway. And you only have to be 16 to buy tobacco, so we were sorted as no one ever really checks, and from what I can see, it's not much different today. Still in school, part time job at the weekends and staying at home rent free, so 18 was a bit of an anti climax! Nothing I could/would do that I wasn't already. You used to be able to drive at 17, though I don't know if that's gone up to 18 now, I think is has (as has tobacco, but that's no bad thing). Age of consent here for sex is 16 too, though again as long as you were the same age (within a year or two) it wasn't really 'policed' by parents - or not amongst my friends and I?
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Honestly i didn't have it together at all at that age. I was still 2 months away from graduating high school. And to be quite honest graduating was my entire focus. I hadn't looked a minute beyond that.
1 0 0 0Well actually when i turned 18 the gambling age was 18. Then a few months later it changed to 21. So i was able to gammble for a few months then it was ilegal again. Lol
Funny how laws work sometimes
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On my 18th birthday I'm gonna get someone to buy me a bottle of whiskey and a big ass cake and I'm gonna down it in my bed, eat more cake, and weep about the fact that it only gets worse from here.
1 2 0 0It was just another lovely birthday party with family and friends.
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6 28Hmmmm nothing special just pay my bills on time 👌
0 2 0 0Happy Birthday 🎈 🎉 🥳🥳🥳 🙌👌💕💕
well foor my is was a plot to ruin my birthday lol, the day i turned 18 they made the drinking age 21 NOT 18 i felt like i was conspired against XD but when i turned 21 and tried my first taste of beer or liquor i got sick so it turned me off of it.
2 0 0 0Went to Atlantic City to Gamble Legally.
1 1 0 0I didn't do anything special. It was just a day or a birthday - do not remember, whether there was a celebration by this particular birthday - like any other.
1 0 0 0Stay in college.
1 0 0 0I got to vote which I think is huge. I can't wait to vote the current idiot in the White House out of office.
1 1 0 0Be 17 again so life is a lot cheaper again
1 0 0 0Be finished with high school/get a job somewhere fun
1 0 0 0Yup not 21 yet 😂 but to be fair I did not drink when I turned 21 😂
Nothing. I’m waiting for 21
1 0 0 0turning 18 in 1980s britain when i had already been left home for 2 years and going to bars and clubs for 4 years was just an excuse for a huge house party rather than some passage to new worlds thing... anyway have a great one fluff ;)
2 0 0 0I wanted to travel the world, but I had nothing- including knowledge or wisdom, so I didn't really know the possibilities of life back then.
1 0 0 0Buy Bourbon and cigarettes.
1 0 0 0Finish high school and make decisions on what to do for college, work?
1 0 0 0My parents organised a party in my grandparents garden.
2 1 0 0Survive, was living on my own at that time, mentally I was worse than I am now
1 0 0 0I wanted to work for CDPR, write stories for video games and such
1 0 0 0buy a gun (legally) that shit went right down the shitter tho ha smh
1 0 0 0Go on dates probsbly.
1 1 0 0Happy Bday to you dear fluff💐🎂
1 0 0 0:) :)
What's the meaning behind your profile wall paper like crying flower eye
I mean that drawing
Get a girlfriend who would appreciate me for me. For what it's worth it's something I'm still wanting
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