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" 1. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re so uptight.&amp;quot; I may like to be in control, but just because I don&amp;#039;t want a beer doesn&amp;#039;t mean I can&amp;#039;t relax or don&amp;#039;t like fun. 2. &amp;quot;Come on, live a little.&amp;quot; I am! Alcohol isn&amp;#039;t the only way to do so. 3. &amp;quot;All I want is to see you drunk.&amp;quot; Sorry to crush your dreams, but that&amp;#039;s not happening. And if that&amp;#039;s all you want in life, it&amp;#039;s time to aspire for more. 4. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to get you to drink.&amp;quot; No, you&amp;#039;re not, the same way I&amp;#039;m not going to get you not to drink. People get to make their own decisions, and trying to change mine on alcohol will be a failed endeavor. 5. &amp;quot;Is it for religious reasons?&amp;quot; Whether it is or isn&amp;#039;t, I don&amp;#039;t think my refusing a beer should prompt an interrogation on my lifestyle. RELATED: Why You Need to Stop Saying &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m Sorry&amp;quot; \u00BB 6. &amp;quot;You must think I&amp;#039;m such a mess.&amp;quot; No, I don&amp;#039;t think you are such a mess because you are drinking and I&amp;#039;m not. 7. &amp;quot;Aren&amp;#039;t you curious?&amp;quot; No. If I were curious, I&amp;#039;d get myself a drink. 8. &amp;quot;I will get you a drink!&amp;quot; Gee, thanks, but save your $10 or however much that overpriced cocktail is. 9. &amp;quot;Do you think you&amp;#039;re better than us?&amp;quot; Alcohol&amp;#039;s a beverage, not a measure of moral superiority (or inferiority). So no, I just don&amp;#039;t want to drink. 10. &amp;quot;You must hate being places where people are drunk.&amp;quot; If I hated being somewhere, I&amp;#039;d leave. RELATED: 9 Things Not to Say to an Anxious Person \u00BB 11. &amp;quot;So what do you do then if you don&amp;#039;t drink?&amp;quot; The same thing you do minus a beer in hand. You can still go out and have fun while drinking water. 12. &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t you feel like you&amp;#039;re missing out?&amp;quot; If I felt like I was missing out, I&amp;#039;d drink. 13. &amp;quot;What? Are you scared of it?&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m just not interested actually, but it&amp;#039;s scary how intense your pressuring is getting. 14. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t drink that much usually! Really!&amp;quot; You don&amp;#039;t have to justify your drinking to me just because I&amp;#039;m not. 15. &amp;quot;But really, why don&amp;#039;t you? Won&amp;#039;t you? Please?&amp;quot; You can keep asking, but the answer is going to remain no. I&amp;#039;m just going to get more annoyed when you say it. This story originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com More from Cosmopolitan: \u2022 16 Things People Say That They Don&amp;#039;t Actually Mean \u2022 Why People Really Cancel Plans \u2022 18 Signs You&amp;#039;re a Ridiculously Punctual Person Photo: JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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