I think I better explain something tonight, really for my parent’s benefit. I’m at home, as you probably know, so my parents have control over what I eat and drink. They, quite naturally, don’t like me drinking too much. The thing is, I resent this – any other guy my age could just go into the garage and get himself a beer whenever he wanted, so why do I have to appeal to my parents’ judgement? I think my own judgement, exercised throughout four years living quazi-independantly at uni, should be good enough. this is why I resent having to appeal to my parents for beer, and risk them saying ‘no’, which occurs about 30 to 40 percent of the time. What my parents haven’t realised, or what I haven’t yet found the opportunity to explain, is if I knew their response to my request for beer was always going to be simply to go into the garage to retrieve a cold one, my requests would be less frequent. Power would no longer be an issue, as I’d know that I’d have just as much access to alcohol as any other person. For like any other person my age I know my limit, and I know when not to drink. I resent the implication to the contrary.