Ofinn
DCL Platinum
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2013
LOL! As a parent you always try to imagine how you'll handle certain situations with your kids/teens. I always pictured my reaction to the totally hammered teenager a bit more on the angry side. In the moment I was just focused on getting him to a toilet and not disturb other guests at 1:30 am. You'd have thought me getting so little sleep that last night of the cruise I'd be fit to be tied. Nope. I was more afraid than anything. Remember that drunk teen who died on some other cruise line after Mom & Dad put him in bed? I can honestly say I've never seen even a puking drunk go thru some of what my son did. He was crying begging me to help him. I figured normal. But then he started saying he was freezing. His skin was icy cold to the touch. It wasn't really cold in our room. Then he started this super bad shaking which scared me enough to wake my husband to make sure we didn't need to take him to medical. He was breathing, upright, and sipping water so we felt that's about as okay as he was going to be. I never left his side. When that episode stopped he became way more coherent. I was able to get him to bed with a trash can next to him. We didn't hardly sleep keeping an eye on him. When we debarked the next morning he was still pretty pickled. No rest for that monster hangover day. Nope. We had to fly home. He had a rough day with zero pity from us. But, ya know, it surprised us we were never angry. Disappointed. We had quite the long conversation about it all. There have been consequences. Yep, at some point most everyone has the tequila lesson. I remember mine, too. Ugh!
I had my tequila lesson. Tequila is the devil for me. I can drink Vodka, Rum, gin whatever, but I can't drink tequila. Your son was an adult and legal drinking age in most countries. I think you handled it perfectly. If he was 15 or 16 then that's different anger would be totally appropriate.