Adrift in a sea of intoxication
My first alcoholic drink was sometime in Wagga Wagga, a large town in the Riverina district of NSW on the west coast of Australia. Rich farming country that bred healthy football players and at least one famous cricket player. Anyway, the first drink was from a long neck of Crown Lager or Fosters while our parents were out. My twin sister and I tasted the beer and then screwed up our faces in revulsion. How could our parents and their friends drink so much? The next day, my mother found evidence of the stolen beer and come down upon us …