I always wondered when I was going to get my adult card.

You know, you think it's going to be at 18 and then at 21.

And really now I'm thinking maybe it's 34 is when I got my adult card and drinking on a Thursday night makes Friday not so pleasurable.

Your adult card comes in the form of just a hangover, feeling crappy.

That's what adulthood feels like. It's not

fair. They don't tell you that. This is death, sex, and money. Let's talk about alcohol.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. Not drinking definitely did not solve my problems.

And need to talk about more. Oh, this is what a hangover is? Oh my God, it's the worst.

I'm Anna C.L. Carrie is a listener in her mid-30s. She lives in Indianapolis, and she got

in touch with us when we asked you to tell us

about your relationships with alcohol. What do you like when you're a little buzzed?

I'm giggly, and my face usually gets a little more pink, and I lose my volume control to some

degree. And if there's a microphone, I might pick it up and sing something.

You just never know. Carrie told me that drinking is a part of her daily routine. She likes having a

glass of wine with her husband after work during the week. And then on the weekends, I have a pretty

core group of girlfriends. And if we're getting together, there's definitely

going to be alcohol there. So we'll have, usually if it's the ladies, some wine, or we're

really into the like spiked sparkling waters right now, probably because those don't have a lot of

carbs and we're all very, you know, carb conscious and we're trying to be healthy and transitions into drinking those instead of drinking bud light.

And how many of those will you have when you're with your girlfriends?

Three or four, if it's a night where we're trying to hang out and party, you know, maybe five,

maybe.

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