If I am offered a drink, I ask for Diet Pepsi or club soda with a twist. If they say "Sure You don't want a beer or a mixed drink?", I simply state flatly that I cannot drink alcohol. First, it reacts with my medication, and second, I have been dry for over 20 years and I intend to stay that way.
That almost always ends the problem. I have been in sessions all over the British Isles and Ireland and have never had a moments trouble from anyone.
I stand my round when my turn comes.
I don't think that we will ever see the laws that we really need to stop the carnage on the highways because the American public is too enamored of its "right" to drive and too "Me" centered to see that a drunk driver has deliberately placed himself in a state of impairment with no thought of anyone but him/herself. Yet we let them keep driving because they could lose their job and their family (who are innocent of wrongdoing) would suffer.
And the BS excuses go on.

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