Your clubbing days (of old or even now)

[Redway]

Whether you're into clubbing or not depends on all sorts (your age, how introverted/extroverted you are, etc.) but how often (at-least if you're within that 18-to-34 age-demographic) do you generally club, or how often did you used to when you were that age?

[Niamh.]

I was never a massive club fan, I always preferred a late bar. I hate dancing, I hate having to shout when you're trying to have a conversation and I like sitting down and yes i was like that even at 18. So yeah I only went to Clubs if there was no good pub option available or everyone else was going there

[bots]

i was a regular at some clubs in london, but i never danced :smug:

[Redway]

I was never a massive club fan, I always preferred a late bar. I hate dancing, I hate having to shout when you're trying to have a conversation and I like sitting down and yes i was like that even at 18. So yeah I only went to Clubs if there was no good pub option available or everyone else was going there

Ditto. I really didn't mind being invited out to club back in fresher days (etc.) and no-doubt I'd have a good night but generally I'm much more of a bar/pub.-crawler. The drinks available at bars especially are a bit more sophisticated than the usual slew of cocktails and vodka-cokes you get at clubs. Vodka f-d me up too much when I was 18 so I tend to steer clear of it now. If I want to drink spirits, it's usually gin or (less commonly) rum. I'm really not about the vodka life anymore. I never was outside of a few months and my first time getting drunk (I was 16 and ended up puking it out after necking a small Glenn's more-or-less entirely on t'rocks).

Do they have Slug and Lettuce in Ireland?

Edit: The Famous Grouse is a good spirit, too. And I don't normally like whiskey that much.

[Redway]

i was a regular at some clubs in london, but i never danced :smug:

Don't worry. Dancing's the one thing I never did, no-matter how drunk I was. And I've been pretty drunk at clubs.

I danced at a party once about 15 years ago but I was stone-cold sober.

[Redway]

"Relatively but I will initiate/did initiate plans for it sometimes."

[Relatively] low^

[Niamh.]

Ditto. I really didn't mind being invited out to club back in fresher days (etc.) and no-doubt I'd have a good night but generally I'm much more of a bar/pub.-crawler. The drinks available at bars especially are a bit more sophisticated than the usual slew of cocktails and vodka-cokes you get at clubs. Vodka f-d me up too much when I was 18 so I tend to steer clear of it now. If I want to drink spirits, it's usually gin or (less commonly) rum. I'm really not about the vodka life anymore. I never was outside of a few months and my first time getting drunk (I was 16 and ended up puking it out after necking a small Glenn's more-or-less entirely on t'rocks).

Do they have Slug and Lettuce in Ireland?

No our Pubs aren't like the way it is in Britain where most are owned by Brewerys and have Managers who run them. Here Pubs are owned or leased by individual people, you'll find a lot of Pubs names are the surname of the owner/owners. We don't really have Pub chains

[Niamh.]

"Relatively but I will initiate/did initiate plans for it sometimes."

[Relatively] low^

I've edited that for you

[AnnieK]

My clubbing days involved loads of rave clubs - including illegal raves all over the show. Best days ever. Every weekend without fail and danced my legs off :laugh:

[Niamh.]

My clubbing days involved loads of rave clubs - including illegal raves all over the show. Best days ever. Every weekend without fail and danced my legs off :laugh:

I went to one of those in London in the 90's in a warehouse, it was an experience, great night/morning though

[Redway]

No our Pubs aren't like the way it is in Britain where most are owned by Brewerys and have Managers who run them. Here Pubs are owned or leased by individual people, you'll find a lot Pubs names are the surname of the owner/owners. We don't really have Pub chains
Ah, I see. Gotcha. Slug and Lettuce, 'though, is a type of bar-chain. I was just wondering if you had that as far as bar options go.
I've edited that for you

Much-appreciated. Could you also edit: Very low. I'm extremely introverted so I almost never clubbed, even when I was young(er)

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Very low. I'm extremely introverted so I almost never club(bed), even when I was young(er)

[Niamh.]

Ah, I see. Gotcha. Slug and Lettuce, 'though, is a type of bar-chain. I was just wondering if you had that as far as bar options go.

Nah we don't really do chains, there are some really good options for bars/pubs over here though


Much-appreciated. Could you also edit: Very low. I'm extremely introverted so I almost never clubbed, even when I was young(er)

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Very low. I'm extremely introverted so I almost never club(bed), even when I was young(er)

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[Swan]

I always preferred house parties, usually happy hardcore music, and lots of love, and certain stimulants. But i did attend clubs here and there.

Walking home from a random house party at 5am, sun already starting to get warm, can of warm fosters in hand, and delaying the come down as much as possible. Good times. Then sleeping most of the day, and doing it all over again on Sat night.

Monday's though...........

[Redway]

Nah we don't really do chains, there are some really good options for bars/pubs over here though



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Appreciate it.

[Crimson Dynamo]

In the 80s Friday and Sat. Start at around 6 and go to club at 11 ish and
leave at 2 - pished and go down and get food (little Turkish take-away still
there with the same frontage and sign in 2023)

90s Go out Friday and sat at midnight, score in some dodgy tower block, club
(like Ministry, The Cross, Turnmills(( 3am to 1pm on a Sunday afternoon))
till 6-8am. Go back home and drink till we could get to sleep which would be
around 12 or if it was an out of town rave then it involved cars and would be
a Friday sat all in one thing.

DO the whole weekend on one bowl of shreddies

finally feel normal by weds at work, spend all day Monday white and sweating

https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/ravemov_mu_cu-Credit_-We-Rave-You-Magazine.jpg

[Redway]

I always preferred house parties, usually happy hardcore music, and lots of love, and certain stimulants. But i did attend clubs here and there.

Walking home from a random house party at 5am, sun already starting to get warm, can of warm fosters in hand, and delaying the come down as much as possible. Good times. Then sleeping most of the day, and doing it all over again on Sat night.

Monday's though...........

What stimulants? Are we talking Red Bull or crystal meth.?

[Redway]

In the 80s Friday and Sat. Start at around 6 and go to club at 11 ish and
leave at 2 - pished and go down and get food (little Turkish take-away still
there with the same frontage and sign in 2023)

90s Go out Friday and sat at midnight, score in some dodgy tower block, club
(like Ministry, The Cross, Turnmills(( 3am to 1pm on a Sunday afternoon))
till 6-8am. Go back home and drink till we could get to sleep which would be
around 12 or if it was an out of town rave then it involved cars and would be
a Friday sat all in one thing.

DO the whole weekend on one bowl of shreddies

finally feel normal by weds at work, spend all day Monday white and sweating

https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/ravemov_mu_cu-Credit_-We-Rave-You-Magazine.jpg

Ouch.

[Swan]

What stimulants? Are we talking Red Bull or crystal meth.?

Cocaine was my go to, if i was flush. But i'd regularly do Speed too, which is a rotten drug. Those were my worse come downs. Maybe an E or 2 too. Washed down with weak lager.

Never again, on that scale anyway.

[Redway]

Cocaine was my go to, if i was flush. But i'd regularly do Speed too, which is a rotten drug. Those were my worse come downs. Maybe an E or 2 too. Washed down with weak lager.

Never again, on that scale anyway.

One thing about ecstasy/M.D.M.A. to be kind of wary of is that it’s very incompatible with a lot of antidepressants, especially MAOIs (a slightly older class of medication that can be especially good for social anxiety and treatment-resistant depression, whether it’s mildly moderate or severe). Tranylcypromine is somehow related to amphetamine so a lot of people “abuse” it for that reason but that or phenelzine + M.D.M.A. = coma/death. I’m not too sure about SSRIs, tricyclics, venlafaxine and lighter MAOIs (like moclobemide) but at the least it’s probably best not to mix any antidepressants at all with ecstasy. Some girl from my uni. (years ago) died from some sort of overdose and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a case of something like that (mixing the wrong drugs together).
Likewise for diazepam and alcohol. A lot of people take benzo’s (inasmuch as most doctors are pretty hesitant to prescribe them) but mixing Valium with booze can sort of cause people to black out and even incur fatal consequence-effects. I’m guessing you can probably almost always get away with a few beers, a bottle of perry or a glass or two of wine (I drank a lot of beer during the time I was taking diazepam) but anything from more than two glasses of wine upwards it can be quite dangerous. That’s why I wish more doctors would advocate more for the L.O.T. benzodiazepines (lorazepam, oxazepam and temazepam) more than just prescribing Valium or (in America at-least anyway) Xanax. People kind of seem to get by okay-ish drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on clonazepam and maybe Xanax to an extent but I just don’t get why doctors often prefer to prescribe diazepam knowing full-well that the average person likes a good drink and since none of the L.O.T.-benzo’s interfere with alcohol or just-about any other drug. They can sometimes be thought of as tranquillisers for older people because they bypass liver metabolism (and older people, especially if they have any personal history of alcoholism/problem-drinking, are naturally more likely to have hepatic issues) but generally they seem to be safer than the other benzo’s, no matter how young you are or what’s going on with your liver. Lorazepam can be addictive for some people but oxazepam carries a much lesser risk there. And the funny thing is oxazepam’s actually a metabolite of diazepam. I don’t know how you’d be on a night out after taking 60 milligrams of the stuff straight-up one Friday night but it might stop you from getting too freaked out on stimulants if you’re someone who takes them and gets uncomfortable when high on them at times. But with the other benzo’s alcohol’s a no-no. You don’t want to be blacking out to the point of being borderline-comatose or getting aggressive after drinking a few Stellas or some Piot on clonazepam and end up in a jail-cell or asleep for 20 hours. If you want to spend all of Saturday/Sunday in bed or think the highlights of the night before make up for spending the rest of the night in prison then that’s your choice but it does actually need to be your sensible and cognisant/involved choice, not the diazepam-tequila-absinthe-flavoured speedball talking. That’s why you have to be so careful drinking on any of the non.-L.O.T. minor tranquilisers.

[Swan]

One thing about ecstasy/M.D.M.A. to be kind of wary of is that it’s very incompatible with a lot of antidepressants, especially MAOIs (a slightly older class of medication that can be especially good for social anxiety and treatment-resistant depression, whether it’s mildly moderate or severe). Tranylcypromine is somehow related to amphetamine so a lot of people “abuse” it for that reason but that or phenelzine + M.D.M.A. = coma/death. I’m not too sure about SSRIs, tricyclics, venlafaxine and lighter MAOIs (like moclobemide) but it’s probably not the best idea.

Tbh i don't think i've done a E/MDMA for over 15 years now. The only drug i occasionally take now is cocaine. And that's about once every 6 months.

[Redway]

Tbh i don't think i've done a E/MDMA for over 15 years now. The only drug i occasionally take now is cocaine. And that's about once every 6 months.

Still not sure about cocaine. Unless you take beta-blockers the chance of having a heart attack if you ‘accidentally’ overdose is worryingly high. I know there’s a way to do all these things safely but compared to ketamine (which is sometimes used in America for people with depression, as a sort of experimental treatment) cocaine just seems like a big risk if you don’t know what you’re doing or drink a lot alongside taking it (which I know is the common way). Wetherspoons can get lairy on Friday/Saturday nights for that reason and when it’s chavs (if you can still use that term in 2023) and/or oafish middle-aged fellas it can be kind of scary.

[Redway]

Anyway, people snort coke every weekend without going into random cardiac arrest so it is what it is. It’s just not my thing. Never has been, never will be.

[Swan]

Anyway, people snort coke every weekend without going into random cardiac arrest so it is what it is. It’s just not my thing. Never has been, never will be.

If you get good stuff it is a nice feeling. The below average stuff is very meh. Like i say, can take it or leave it, and don't do it much now.

[Redway]

If you get good stuff it is a nice feeling. The below average stuff is very meh. Like i say, can take it or leave it, and don't do it much now.

Yeah but even at that how long does that “nice feeling” last at a time? 20 minutes? A half-hour?

Anyway, it’s just me being the way I am. I have a lot of time and tolerance for weed and psychedelics but for various reasons I’m very anti-stimulant. That’s just my personal bias talking.

[MTVN]

I've always felt like a bit of a fraud in clubs like I'm trying to persuade myself I'm having a good time when actually I'd rather be anywhere else.

I can't dance, the music is normally ****e, it's too loud to talk, the drinks are crap, it's expensive, they go on way too late and they're full of nobheads

[MTVN]

Give me a few pints, a few friends and some good conversation in a pub any day

[Swan]

Yeah but even at that how long does that “nice feeling” last at a time? 20 minutes? A half-hour?

Anyway, it’s just me being the way I am. I have a lot of time and tolerance for weed and psychedelics but for various reasons I’m very anti-stimulant. That’s just my personal bias talking.

Yeah the buzz last for a bit that long.

Im not a weed smoker, only when i need to come down and sleep after a night on coke.

[Redway]

Yeah the buzz last for a bit that long.

Im not a weed smoker, only when i need to come down and sleep after a night on coke.

Yeah, fair enough. Besides obvious extreme outliers (heroin being the prime example) I don’t think any recreational substance should be fully illegal (let’s not forget alcohol was illegal in the States for a time less than 100-year. ago) but yeah. I’ve never been a fan of stimulants besides coffee/caffeine (including the caffeine what comes in energy drinks) and maybe the kola-nut. I know 90% of investment bankers have to depend on the white stuff to help them function and get through 100-hour weeks but I don’t like to be around people when they’re high on coke. Generally I get off the stimulant train at double-espressos.

[Redway]

I've always felt like a bit of a fraud in clubs like I'm trying to persuade myself I'm having a good time when actually I'd rather be anywhere else.

I can't dance, the music is normally ****e, it's too loud to talk, the drinks are crap, it's expensive, they go on way too late and they're full of nobheads

I haven’t actually been to a club since the end of 2019 (no joke) but when I did go I’d always try to get half my money’s worth by sticking around to the end/4-5 a.m.-ish. I share your general frustrations, ’though. My speaking voice is naturally very husky and low (I get well-spoken as a speaking-descriptor a lot but certainly not loud) so I never counted on being heard properly in clubs (outside the bathroom and smoking area). Even bars that I actively like have the issue of it being too loud for any normal conversation to flow from someone who has such a low voice so I don’t mind going to these places alone. I’m fairly reserved (which I think has been well-established on here by now) so I don’t mind riding solo at the best of times anyway but my voice being the way it is is just more incentive for me to keep to myself in those situations. I’m just not loud enough to thrive conversationally in those spaces. My voice sounds normal (because it is) in just-about any other setting but in noisy environments it’s just too deep and low to be heard easily.

[rusticgal]

I was never a massive club fan, I always preferred a late bar. I hate dancing, I hate having to shout when you're trying to have a conversation and I like sitting down and yes i was like that even at 18. So yeah I only went to Clubs if there was no good pub option available or everyone else was going there


I was exactly the same…

[Niamh.]

I've always felt like a bit of a fraud in clubs like I'm trying to persuade myself I'm having a good time when actually I'd rather be anywhere else.

I can't dance, the music is normally ****e, it's too loud to talk, the drinks are crap, it's expensive, they go on way too late and they're full of nobheadsA man after my own heart [emoji38]

[Niamh.]

I was exactly the same…:love:

[thesheriff443]

We would start in a local pub then go to a club under a hotel it had a bar on one side that had live bands

We would stay there until it was time to close then walk across to the club, no drink no drugs
Dancing sober talking to women getting off with women pulling women

Then out to my car drive to a kebab van then home unless I found myself in the company of women then I might end up at her place

[Crimson Dynamo]

Dancing for hours on E was magical. I really loved the music too so it went hand in hand

[Kate!]

Friday and Saturday nights was club time for me and my gal pals. We started off in the local pub, loved it there and then got a taxi into the town and went to Crystals nightclub. Ah the memories, mostly drunken.

[AnnieK]

Dancing for hours on E was magical. I really loved the music too so it went hand in hand

Me too

[Alf]

Many a night clubbing in the 90s, E'd up.

[Alf]

The confidence an E or two gave you was astounding. The most happy drug I ever took.

[Swan]

I feel deeply in love with women on a Sat night after taking E, come Monday i wouldn't even remember their name's. Good times.

[smudgie]

Went clubbing every Friday and Saturday night. Dancing was my drug.
Went to the pub 6 nights a week and most Sunday afternoons.
More or less from age 17 until 21, had a bit of a burn out and settled down somewhat, then met hubby and that was it, quite angelic since.:laugh:

[Redway]

Went clubbing every Friday and Saturday night. Dancing was my drug.
Went to the pub 6 nights a week and most Sunday afternoons.
More or less from age 17 until 21, had a bit of a burn out and settled down somewhat, then met hubby and that was it, quite angelic since.:laugh:

How old actually were you when you first started clubbing (if you don’t mind me asking, of course)?

[smudgie]

How old actually were you when you first started clubbing (if you don’t mind me asking, of course)?

16/17
Same as the pubs.

[Redway]

16/17
Same as the pubs.

Anyway, that’s why fake IDs are common so it’s not exactly a rare thing, especially not back then. I lent out my provisional license to a buddy once or twice when I was 18 but I personally have never been such an outgoing person so I was more than happy to wait until I was 18, and even then I almost had to be dragged out kicking and screaming (I ended up in some flat-party for pre.-drinks and then it just sort of happened after a good dose of Dutch courage). I just drank WKD when I was 16/17 (milk-bars served me, and challenge 25 wasn’t particularly a thing in newsagents at that time).

[Niamh.]

Anyway, that’s why fake IDs are common so it’s not exactly a rare thing, especially not back then. I lent out my provisional license to a buddy once or twice when I was 18 but I personally have never been such an outgoing person so I was more than happy to wait until I was 18. I just drank WKD when I was 16/17 (milk-bars served me, and challenge 25 wasn’t particularly a thing in newsagents at that time).

I never had a fake ID but you would know which bars and clubs were more likely to let you in, there was always a few that would

[Beso]

After pub house raves was where it was at.

[Redway]

I never had a fake ID but you would know which bars and clubs were more likely to let you in, there was always a few that would

Yeah. Plus it was a bit easier back then to get away with buying alcohol under 18. If you were one of those 15-year-olds who looked freakishly older than your age you might’ve gotten away with it on a ‘good’ day but letting mature 16/17-year-olds through kind of always seemed like a fair compromise to me. I didn’t exactly have the most defined face when I was 16/17 (nor 18 to 20 at that) but I had a lot of facial hair (I grew a trimmed beard officially at 18-ish but had a moustache from at least 15) and generally I was pretty mature so I got away with it in milk-bars. I never had such loud teenage social inclination to try my luck at the club like I said so I very-much waited until I was of age on that front.

[Niamh.]

Yeah. Plus it was a bit easier back then to get away with buying alcohol under 18. If you were one of those 15-year-olds who looked freakishly older than your age you might’ve gotten away with it on a ‘good’ day but letting mature 16/17-year-olds through kind of always seemed like a fair compromise to me. I didn’t exactly have the most defined face when I was 16/17 (nor 18 to 20 at that) but I had a lot of facial hair (I grew a trimmed beard officially at 18-ish but had a moustache from at least 15) and generally I was pretty mature so I got away with it in milk-bars. I never had such loud teenage social inclination to try my luck at the club like I said so I very-much waited until I was of age on that front.

Unfortunately for me back then i looked pretty young for my age, I still managed to get in to a few places though :p

[AnnieK]

I can't remember ever getting asked for ID here when clubbing. I did always look older than I was and a lot of the people I went with were older too so I kind of got in the middle of them on the way in :laugh:

When I was in the States it was a pain as I was 20 and they card you EVERYWHERE there. I turned 21 whilst I was there but used to use my International Driving Licence as ID and that fooled them into thinking I turned 21 a couple of months before I did as they read my birthday as 3rd January instead of 1st March due to the inverted way they write dates :laugh:

[Redway]

Unfortunately for me back then i looked pretty young for my age, I still managed to get in to a few places though :p

My issue was passing for a broad range of ages when I was in my late-mid. to late teens. Most people definitely thought I looked at least somewhat older than I was but there was a time when I was 18 where certain people insisted I only looked 15/16 but like I said I had a beard and moustache so I really didn’t look that young. You might look young in the face alone if you have small-looking deep-set eyes (I have that and it was worse in my teens) but the rest of your body is a more accurate and consistent clue. That’s why I looked 25 to some people and barely 16 to other people when I was 18. As you can imagine I used to hate it when that demoralising minority insisted I only looked 80% of my age.

[Niamh.]

I can't remember ever getting asked for ID here when clubbing. I did always look older than I was and a lot of the people I went with were older too so I kind of got in the middle of them on the way in :laugh:

When I was in the States it was a pain as I was 20 and they card you EVERYWHERE there. I turned 21 whilst I was there but used to use my International Driving Licence as ID and that fooled them into thinking I turned 21 a couple of months before I did as they read my birthday as 3rd January instead of 1st March due to the inverted way they write dates :laugh:

I was only 18 when I went to the states, luckily one of the other aupairs I got friendly with(she was from Cork as well) knew one Pub in Boston where the main bar man (it was a tiny pub so he was mostly there by himself) was from Cork too so he would always lets us in

[Niamh.]

My issue was passing for a broad range of ages when I was in my late-mid. to late teens. Most people definitely thought I looked at least somewhat older than I was but there was a time when I was 18 where certain people insisted I only looked 15/16 but like I said I had a beard and moustache so I really didn’t look that young. You might look young in the face alone if you have small-looking deep-set eyes (I have that and it was worse in my teens) but the rest of your body is a more accurate and consistent clue. That’s why I looked 25 to some people and barely 16 to other people when I was 18. As you can imagine I used to hate it when that demoralising minority insisted I only looked 80% of my age.

Yeah it's awful when you're a teen, surprising how fast it changes to hoping you look younger than your age though! :laugh:

[Redway]

I can't remember ever getting asked for ID here when clubbing. I did always look older than I was and a lot of the people I went with were older too so I kind of got in the middle of them on the way in :laugh:

When I was in the States it was a pain as I was 20 and they card you EVERYWHERE there. I turned 21 whilst I was there but used to use my International Driving Licence as ID and that fooled them into thinking I turned 21 a couple of months before I did as they read my birthday as 3rd January instead of 1st March due to the inverted way they write dates :laugh:

America’s a nightmare when it comes to things like that. 21 being the official drinking age is already absurd but over there they essentially operate on challenge-40, meaning basically any young-ish person gets ID-d everyone and without fail. A lot of my cousins (and I have a lot of cousins in the States, especially North Carolina) still have it real-tough. Me, my U.K. problem has never been anything much more than patronisingly being asked for my age by the shopkeeper when I was 18 and buying alcohol (they must’ve been part of the small body of people who thought I only looked about 16) or the same person asking for it over and over again. There’s a woman in a Home Bargains I go to sometimes who always, always used to ask me for I.D. despite remembering my face well (with me being quite a regular customer then) and insisted it were the shop’s rules, not hers, and that she were only doing her job. But the thing is either no-one else asked me for proof of age or even if they did they only asked once and stopped when they’d seen me enough times to remember me. It’s not like anyone ever de-ages back to being a 17-year-old once they’re 18+ so it makes no sense whatsoever to keep asking for I.D. when you know they’re old enough. You should’ve taken note at some point between the first 1027 times you asked.

[Redway]

Yeah it's awful when you're a teen, surprising how fast it changes to hoping you look younger than your age though! :laugh:

Oh, that’s the one. It’s good to look younger and fresher when you’re older but when you’re only on the cusp of legal adulthood in the first place being told you essentially look like a kid is like a slap in the face.

[Niamh.]

awww I just found a picture of that tiny Pub in Boston we would get served in

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/58/a9/5458a93b68fe14eb91bb17bebd7500ef.jpg

[Redway]

awww I just found a picture of that tiny Pub in Boston we would get served in

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/58/a9/5458a93b68fe14eb91bb17bebd7500ef.jpg

Not a pub. serving then-underage people ironically being called ‘little’ […]. :laugh:

[Niamh.]

Not a pub. serving then-underage people ironically being called ‘little’ […]. :laugh:

:smug:

[AnnieK]

Yeah it's awful when you're a teen, surprising how fast it changes to hoping you look younger than your age though! :laugh:

I remember a time when my best friend came with us clubbing - she was more of a home body at the time and preferred to stay home. I went to this particular club every week and knew the door staff. Anyway, my friend got asked for ID (luckily she was 18 as she was a year older than me) but had no idea. I just looked at the bouncer and said "it's ok - she's with me" and they let her in. I gloated for ages that she was such a baby face and she said then wait will we're older and you still look older than me.

She still reminds me now of that day (and yep, she looks younger than me still ):bawling:

[Redway]

I remember a time when my best friend came with us clubbing - she was more of a home body at the time and preferred to stay home. I went to this particular club every week and knew the door staff. Anyway, my friend got asked for ID (luckily she was 18 as she was a year older than me) but had no idea. I just looked at the bouncer and said "it's ok - she's with me" and they let her in. I gloated for ages that she was such a baby face and she said then wait will we're older and you still look older than me.

She still reminds me now of that day (and yep, she looks younger than me still ):bawling:

Do you think you'd be okay with your son going clubbing when he's a little older (16/17)?

[AnnieK]

Do you think you'd be okay with your son going clubbing when he's a little older (16/17)?

God no :laugh:
Although I don't think he'd get away with as much as I did anyway...for one I would be checking for signs of drug use, for another I don't think my parents knew where I actually was and they wouldn't check up on where I said i was but with phones kids don't have the luxury of going off grid like we did.

Unless he takes me of course and then I'd be fine with it :laugh:

[thesheriff443]

I remember a time when my best friend came with us clubbing - she was more of a home body at the time and preferred to stay home. I went to this particular club every week and knew the door staff. Anyway, my friend got asked for ID (luckily she was 18 as she was a year older than me) but had no idea. I just looked at the bouncer and said "it's ok - she's with me" and they let her in. I gloated for ages that she was such a baby face and she said then wait will we're older and you still look older than me.

She still reminds me now of that day (and yep, she looks younger than me still ):bawling:

I remember going to a club only to find one of the mums from daughters school on the desk and getting in for free

And another times friends were in a packed club with no one being let in my friends came down and told the staff I was her fiancée and I got it

[Redway]

God no :laugh:
Although I don't think he'd get away with as much as I did anyway...for one I would be checking for signs of drug use, for another I don't think my parents knew where I actually was and they wouldn't check up on where I said i was but with phones kids don't have the luxury of going off grid like we did.

Unless he takes me of course and then I'd be fine with it :laugh:

I see what you mean. Teenagers (no-matter how good they are) are always going to be getting up to stuff behind your back that remains a secret (they might open up about it in their 20s or 30s) and I feel like it’s pointless (I’m talking generally) to pretend otherwise but it’s definitely harder for people now to stay under the radar completely, in this era of instant communication.