Personal Narrative: My First Time Drinking

Everyone has their fair share of drinking stories and they all vary from funny, sad, or stupid. My first time drinking with friends is a good mix of all three. We can blame it all we want on being young and stupid but looking back I think of it as a good time and an opportunity to learn a lesson. Almost everyone there dealt with the repercussions of our actions and somewhat regret what we did. Deciding to drink after our junior homecoming led to us getting suspended from sports for a week, two months of counselor meetings, and a bad reputation for a while if not the rest of high school. Growing up in a small town there was not always a lot to do. Most weekends and summers were spent just hanging around at friends’ houses. While going through …show more content…
It was not until the Tuesday after homecoming that everyone started to get called into the office to be questioned by the principal and superintendent. I was one of the last people to be called in so by the time I was in there I knew what was going on. Everyone had told the truth so I knew there was no point in lying to them. I also knew that everyone would be better off telling the truth instead of trying to cover up what we had done. We were getting off easy in my eyes. We were all suspended from one game of whatever sport we were in, we had to go to counseling for two months. This did not affect me too much because I was already done for football season with an injury. The counseling was the worst part for everyone. We all had to go to the school social worker which was in the elementary wing of the building. Nothing was more embarrassing than having to walk down through all the little kids to talk a social worker. I also saw it as a waste of time because she asked useless questions that were supposed to help us realize what we did wrong. I knew what I had done wrong and just wanted to move on from the situation. This was hard no matter what though because my reputation as a decent kid had been ruined. Everywhere I went in town I got dirty looks from people. Many adults that had respected me lost all of it. I knew that I would have to gain the respect from many and I think that I did accomplish that by the time I graduated. Looking back on the situation I probably would have done things a little differently and easily avoided getting in