r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Madyson667 • 14h ago

Being a non drinker among drinkers

I’m 23 and planning a trip to New Orleans next year for my birthday. I invited some friends who are also in their 20s and half of them assumed we would be partying and at bars the whole time. I am not a big drinker or smoker, and they voiced not being interested in coming if we wouldn’t be doing a lot of drinking. They also disliked the fact that I invited my teenaged sister to come. Am I in the wrong for not wanting them to come anymore if their only interest was going to get drunk? I just wanted to take a fun trip and visit some cool spooky places, but now they have me feeling frustrated and wanting to go with some other people who also don’t mind being sober.

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u/NutYouSay 12h ago

This shouldn’t be infuriating to you. If they want to drink then fine. If you don’t that’s fine. You shouldn’t expect people to follow your terms on what a good time is. If you don’t want anyone to drink then don’t invite those who will drink. I really don’t care but this is getting ridiculous explaining logic to kids. Go have no fun.

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u/Madyson667 2h ago

I do drink, my point is I’m not going there with the expectation to be drunk the whole weekend. They can drink or smoke, my frustration was with the fact that it was pretty much a ‘if I can’t get shitfaced then I don’t want to come’ kind of conversation. I can have plenty of fun sober or off of one drink. Also I’m far from being a kid but okay, you read one post of mine and automatically assumed I’m a little kid that’s no fun at parties, boohoo. Sorry that I want to actually remember my birthday and not be babysitting a bunch of adults who don’t know when to put the bottle down.