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    Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

    I mean really. My willpower can only withstand so much. I'm in the middle of fecking Octoberfest. Really. In Germany. We had been to about 4 wineries already, and I kept saying, "No, thank you." about 100 times on the trip already.

    We get to our 2nd hotel, and lo and behold, in the damned vending machine down the hallway from my room, there are little bottles of WINE for 2 euros. What the hell is that? I succumbed. I didn't get drunk, but 2 different nights I had a couple of those little single-serve bottles. They weren't even very good. But something about them being so available, and so anonymous, nobody had to know I was buying them, I could pour them in a cup and go join the bigger group on the terrace and have a chat, which is exactly what I did.

    Oh shite. I have thought it over, and I know that being under the stress of multiple social situations where I was the only one out of 13 adults saying "NO" to the offers of drink over the 10-day vacation was part of the trigger here, but really, I think the main trigger was the damn vending machine with liquor in it, and that just ain't going to happen stateside, so I'm hopeful that this slip isn't going to to recur.

    Just coming clean with my MWO peeps. Back in the saddle and feeling ok now though.
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    #2
    Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

    Well, I have to say I have never in my life seen that. Is there not a drinking age in Germany? Because how the heel does a vending machine know you aren't 10 years old? That is so bizzarre to me.
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      #3
      Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

      I know, isn't that weird? The "zigaretten" machines all over the place had an area where you had to swipe an ID card to prove you were old enough to smoke, but if you can walk into a hotel you could buy all the beer and wine you wanted. Too wacky.

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        #4
        Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

        I know Scrubby , lived in Germany for 3 years.....they sold all kinds of weird things in their vending machines.......wine, coniac, beer....even flowers.. Their is no age limit for drinking in Germany.......Ha! IAD
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          #5
          Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

          Oh, Scrubbly. Travel is always a problem. I remember a couple years ago I was in Romania, where they serve a sort of grappa type liqueur at breakfast to "start they day out right". And in Japan, beer and whiskey are commonly found in neighborhood vending machines; right alongside the cold green tea, ice coffee, pocari sweat and calpis.

          For me, it helps if I "image" the scene before I have to live it. But that just doesn't work with the unexpected. Congrats on keeping it together for the rest of the trip, and it sounds like overall you had a good time.

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            #6
            Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

            I have been to Germany twice and i never saw those small bottles of wine in a vending machine. My hotel had a vending machine on one of the floors but it only had water and soft drinks. It is weird to have liquer like that as with the ciggerette machines you had to swipe an id card. I hope we don't get them over here we have enough under age drinking as it is.

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              #7
              Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

              I found those vending machines all over Europe when I was there, even in a bloody camping area in France !
              I suppose they've got a MWO-esque site of their own. A big one.
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                #8
                Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

                Scrub, you were dealing with a ton lf triggers! Vacation (an automatic excuse to let your hair down), the tours, the socializing, and then that d**n vending machine! I think youcame through remarkably.
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                  #9
                  Wine, in a vending machine? Really?

                  Thank goodness I have no plans to visit Germany any time soon -- that would've done me in too Scrubbs.
                  Good job on keeping it together.
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