Subject: RE: so sick of peer pressure ScudRunner - 2009-09-12 11:51 AM sarahswhere - 2009-09-11 11:15 PM Sorry for the rant, but I'm so irritated!
I ride with a group every saturday morning even though I work until 3am during the week. I work with people in their early 20s who like to party every Friday. Every Friday when they pressure me to come out and drink, I tell them I don't go out Friday nights. They get all indignant like I'm committing a crime. Over and over and over. Any suggestions for what would keep their mouths shut for once?
It's not like I never go out and have a good time with them, I just have this one ride I really enjoy every week. Early 20s sounds like either LTs or young enlisted. Either way, tell em to F off, you've got business to take care of early in the morning, and that they won't understand until they grow up. Signed, A crusty young Major *EDIT* Nevermind, you're talking about your day job. Still, the second sentence of my answer remains applicable. You hit it right on the head: LT's. Some of them I would consider friends, but most of them no. I've been in 11yrs and just recently joined the group so I'm a few years older than most. Being away from my own home and group of friends, it's a temporary thing to be around them all. They're good people, just on a different level and place in life. Oh, and I've tried so many different reasons, all true, and none of them matter. Just gonna have to stick with the same reason, "I don't go out on Fridays, I ride with a group Saturday morning and I'm not willing to miss it." I also offer to go out on Saturday instead, but they always turn me down, probably because they feel like crap. And Detroit: next time I'm up in WI, take the Ludington Ferry across and we'll have a few. Edited by sarahswhere 2009-09-12 7:13 PM
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