And now all of a sudden you're 31, and you're thinking if I was to stop drinking, how do I even exist? This is what I need to to have a great night out with my friends. Just try to go to a picnic with friends and not have a drink.Īnd then the scary part is is that you've become so conditioned to this is what I need to have fun. There’s so much of adult life that’s built around alcohol. It helps me to relax when I go on dates with my husband. I enjoy the taste of beer, having a glass of wine. When we asked about the role alcohol plays in your life.we heard that, for a lot of you, drinking is about more than getting a buzz. That if I weren’t drinking, that maybe the party would move to someone else’s house. And it’s so funny that I’m 34, and, that is a worry. And I still want them to hang out with me (laughter). And I still want them to come over to my house (laughs). Every time! I just don’t want anybody to think that if I’m not drinking and they are, that I would be judging. I definitely think that at least someone in the group would say what’s up or, how come you’re not drinking? Or-ĪS: That's what they will say. And she’s starting to wonder what it would be like to cut back a little.Ĭ: It’s been a piece of everything since we’ve turned 21, or 18, that we have, you know, always had a drink or been drinking when we’ve been at parties, and it is a fundamental shift, and I just don’t want that to enter into the dynamic.ĪS: Would it be a big deal if you were with the group of women that you hang out with on a weekend and they’re all getting ready to crack open their spiked seltzers and you’re like, I’m just going to have plain seltzer.Ĭ: Um, it’s funny that you’re hitting on this because summertime just came around here in Indy, and we’re probably all going to be getting together soon, and I have had that conversation in my mind. Maybe.īut as she’s getting older, Cari is noticing that all that alcohol.doesn’t go down as easily as it used to. If it’s a night where we’re trying to hang out and party, you know, maybe five. 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 it transitions into drinking those instead of Bud Light (laughter).ĪS: And how many of those will you have when you’re with your girlfriends?Ĭ: Um, three or four.

Or, we’re really into the, like, spiked sparkling waters right now. She likes having a glass of wine with her husband after work during the week.and then, on the weekends…Ĭ: 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. You just never know (laughter).Ĭari told me that drinking is a part of her daily routine.

Uh, and I lose my volume control to some degree.Ĭ: And if there’s a microphone, I might pick it up and sing something. And my face usually gets a little more pink. She lives in Indianapolis.and she got in touch with us when we asked you to tell us about your relationships with alcohol.ĪS: What are like when you’re a little buzzed?Ĭ: I’m giggly. VOICE MEMO: Oh, this is what a hangover is? Oh my god, it's the WORST!Ĭari is a listener in her mid-thirties. VOICE MEMO: Not drinking definitely did not solve my problems. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot… That’s what adulthood feels like! (Laughter)Ĭ: It’s not fair! They don’t tell you that! All of that before that one month grace period before the fines.CARI: I always wondered when I was going to get my adult card, you know, you think it’s going to be 18, and then at 21, and really now I’m thinking maybe 34 is when I got my adult card and drinking on a Thursday night makes Friday morning not so pleasurable.ĪNNA SALE: Your adult card comes in the form of just a hangover. The sanitation commissioner told NBC 4 New York that the department will be sending mailers to every business in the city and doing door knocks to spread the word.

“We’ve got rats on the run,' NYC Council member Shawn Abreu said. However, some New Yorkers are skeptical that something as basic as a trash bin will make a difference when it comes to rats.Īlmost daily, New Yorkers post pictures of violators which the NYC Sanitation Department follows up with warnings and summonses - making enforcement an ongoing challenge.Īccording to the city, 'full commercial containerization will get 20 million pounds of trash - half of city’s waste - off New York City streets every day.'Ī city councilman whose district is part of the next phase - containerizing residential trash - got almost giddy with confidence that the war on rats is turning a corner. A pilot of residential containerization and mechanized collection is currently underway at 14 schools and 10 residential blocks in the Hamilton Heights section of Manhattan.

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