I never really understood alcohol when I was a kid. I used to ask my parents for sips of their wine at parties. "You won't like it," they'd tell me as I drank. And as I ran to the sink to spit it out, I agreed with them.
I didn't really get it all through high school, either. I was the one in the group who never drank, never understood why my friends did. It tasted like shit, it numbed your senses, it poisoned your body.