<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=268456.msg13251901#msg13251901">Quote from: AribethAmkiir on 05-06-2017, 11:54:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">True.  I remember my HS graduation and going to parties where the parents were drinking and partying with us.  It felt weird at the time, but in retrospect those were some of the best parties.<br/><br/>Really, it's like a right of passage.  When adults begin to see you and treat you as a fellow adult; treat you with respect, instead of treating you like a child who isn't going to be living in dorms on their own, away from mommy and daddy, in 3 short months (for some graduates).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>After my freshman year of college, my family and I went to Nova Scotia in Canada and they ordered me a beer at the restaurant (legal to buy alcohol if you're over 18 as opposed to the moralistic paradise of the US which is 21). Sharing my first beer with my Dad at a restaurant was the best.