<After a fishing trip with some Baptists, I found them to be tea-totalers at the liquor store but back at the cabin they sure polished off several bottles of my booze.>
I suppose you mean teetotal rather than teatotal. A nice cup of tea is what I'm going to get after this, and I'm sure Baptists are into a good brew.
I was a waiter at the Sorrento in the early 1970s, which was a ballroom/restaurant/function centre on the slopes of One Tree Hill in Auckland.
There was a beer strike. Kiwis drink beer. There was a fizzy wine called Cold Duck which acted as a replacement.
The Baptists [I am sure it was the Baptists but it's possible it was another religious group, but it was definitely a religious group - not Catholic, Presbyterian, Protestant, Anglican, 7th Dayers, Mormon or other that I can think of] had a ball there. By the end of the evening, I had never seen such drunken behaviour. I was quite surprised.
I thought Christians were kind of goody two shoes.
The women's toilets were well vomited. People were not violent or anything, but certainly "having a good time".
I don't think of myself as a prude, but I guess I've become more so in recent years. dictionary.reference.com I'm comfortable with chaos and people doing their own thing. At the time, I was not shocked, but fairly disgusted.
They drank the Cold Duck in the same quantity that they'd drink beer, I guess. Hence the mess and high levels of drunken women, and of course men.
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