Booze as a Gift for a Non Drinker

[Globalti]

This thread isn’t intended to ignite a divisive debate between the teetotallers and the partakers.

Just some seasonal etiquette advice please, for me as a teetotaller. At this time of year, clients and neighbours who don’t know me incredibly well, sometimes give me gifts in the form of alcohol. Brandy, cider, beer, whisky mainly.

In the past I have kept them then given them away when it’s my turn to gift someone or thank them for a favour. I have yet to give any of them their own gift back.

What do/would you do?

I drink alcohol but nobody ever gives me brandy, cider, beer or whisky. Where am I going wrong?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I drink alcohol but nobody ever gives me brandy, cider, beer or whisky. Where am I going wrong?

Judging by this thread, if you stop drinking you'll get it by the gallon.

 

[Globalti]

In the 60s my dad was a village GP in rural Oxfordshire and it was quite common to find bottles of booze and braces of pheasant etc. from grateful patients on the doorstep. I doubt that happens nowadays.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I drink alcohol but nobody ever gives me brandy, cider, beer or whisky. Where am I going wrong?

I am unusually handsome

 

[Cuchilo]

Its the booze no one wants cycle . I have a cupboard full of the sh8t . I dont pass it on because i only give gifts to people i like and those gifts are normally thought about .

 

[Andy in Germany]

Its the booze no one wants cycle . I have a cupboard full of the sh8t . I dont pass it on because i only give gifts to people i like and those gifts are normally thought about .

Send it all to @Globalti.

 

[bluenotebob]

@Heltor Chasca ….thanks for a fuller explanation of your circumstances. I've been out of the UK for a very long time now and I had completely forgotten about the Christmas box/gratuity idea. It simply doesn't exist here. I appreciate your dilemma now …. yes, accept the gift with a smile and pass it on to someone else.

Merry Christmas from Brittany

 

[steveindenmark]

It could be far worse. Your relatives could buy you cycling gear.

 

[Smokin Joe]

It could be far worse. Your relatives could buy you cycling gear.

Oh Jesus, no.

They seriously don't get it at all.