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[โ€“] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can vividly remember telling my parents I was staying at a friends house, then me and that friend would go to the off license, trying very hard to look over age and not guilty, then carrying bags of cans a few miles to a friend of a friends house in the next village.

And then walking back with a hangover the next morning and hoping no parents needed to get hold of anyone.

[โ€“] scuppie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I was the oldest looking and tallest, so offy duty was mine.

I came out with a bright red and yellow bag with THRESHERS emblazoned across it, bulging with bottles of hooch.

Got on the bus, pointed right at it and said "believe it or not, I'm 15 years old. Single child fare please"

Driver laughed his arse off and did indeed let me on for ten pence or whatever it was at the time.