<p>Get your cup of beer, and just look like your are drinking. Or you can take a few sips and spend the evening on just that one cup of beer. You don't want to stick out. Plus, if you don't drink or don't like the taste of beer, it will kick you in the @ss.</p>
<p>"DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE!"</p>
<p>AlphaFlight> Are you kidding? If you don't have the self-confidence to go to a party without "fake drinking" that is pretty sad. There's no reason to fake it. Just say you don't drink.</p>
<p>I have gone to parties that don't involve alcohol and other controlled and illegal substances, they are boring! "Fake drinking" as you call it will help one's self-esteem. By not participating, you are sending the image, to the rest of the partyer's, that alcohol is bad. Only alcohol abuse is bad, not the alcohol in itself. Who is that girl going to remember, come Monday afternoon, the guy not drinking or the guy with the cup in his hand?</p>
<p>Huh? I have no idea how having a cup in your hand would make a party any more fun.</p>
<p>Hopefully the girl wouldn't be shallow enough to remember a guy based on alcohol.</p>
<p>Carrying around a cup of whatever will generally make people quit coming up to you and asking you if you want a drink, or why you don't have one. It's not necessarily about self-confidence, more like about not wanting to be annoyed with repetitive questions all night.</p>
<p>i second what blahdeblah said. i have done that myself at times when i wasn't in the mood to drink. people won't bother you to drink if you already seem to have one with you.</p>
<p>Thanks BlahDeBlah and gemstarr66!</p>
<p>Holding that cup, more people will talk to you, "Hey where's the keg, or Where do you get some?"</p>
<p>If she's pretty, then you can give her some or get her , her own cup.</p>
<p>yeah,
find the people who don't drink & stick to them.</p>
<p>dont be a pussy and just drink</p>
<p>wow. i haven't posted in a while. anyway, to the poster, I wouldn't say you necessarily should hang around only non drinkers or non partiers. If you're not into partying [as in going to parties] don't go. But i'm assuming you meant you're not into the drinking/getting crazy/doing drugs that sometimes comes with going to parties. Seriously, you can go, not drink, not pretend to drink, and have fun. I didn't have my first drink up until 6 months ago. Before then, I was almost always the only one not drinking. Of course i would get offered drinks, but noone is going to try to force you to drink or call you a loser because you're not drinking. Actually, I realized that when I told people I didn't drink, they thought it was pretty cool/respectable. So just go to parties, chill with your friends, take pictures, and show them how ridiculous they looked the night before. [haha] But, seriously, atleast you'll remember who you hooked up with last night! ;-)</p>
<p>Why go to a party if you aren't gunna drink? Let me rephrase.. why go to a party if you DONT drink?</p>
<p>That's what a party is, well "party" in the college sense. Find somewhere else to hangout if you don't drink because a house full of drunkards is not going to be fun for you. Two things can happen: 1. You become a complete wallflower and this is never good for your social life. 2. You try and fit in and "act" drunk which, any experienced drunk can tell you, sticks out like a sore thumb. Please don't fake.. it makes you look stupid and even if people don't say it, they know you are faking.</p>
<p>Just my $.02 of course.</p>