How to cut down your alcohol intake
Life Kit
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's life kit, I'm Mary Elsiegerra. |
| 0:03.6 | So it's the holidays, and if you gather with other people, |
| 0:06.6 | more than likely you will be offered some kind of alcohol. |
| 0:10.5 | Egnog, spiked apple cider, wine, whiskey, |
| 0:14.5 | and maybe that all sounds great. |
| 0:16.5 | Or maybe you don't actually feel like drinking. |
| 0:19.9 | But if you've ever tried to decline alcohol in a social setting, |
| 0:23.2 | you may be familiar with some of these comments. |
| 0:26.1 | Oh, you don't want to drink. |
| 0:27.7 | Well, why not? |
| 0:28.8 | Well, why not? |
| 0:29.8 | Why not? |
| 0:30.5 | There was a Friday happy hour every time, and I would show up, |
| 0:33.9 | and people would say, oh, really, just a spiked, |
| 0:37.4 | really, just water. |
| 0:38.4 | Why don't you just have a beer? |
| 0:40.0 | They just kept asking, why, why, why, and sometimes people |
| 0:42.9 | would try to joke around like, oh, well, are you pregnant? |
| 0:45.5 | Or, you know, what do you mean you don't like alcohol? |
| 0:47.1 | Everybody likes to drink. |
| 0:49.6 | First of all, anyone who says stuff like that, please stop. |
| 0:54.0 | And second, today on the show, we have a rerun |
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