Why aren't you drinking user? Come on don't be such a health nut!

>alcohol is expensive meme
Only at bars, user.

I would if I had friends.

Redpill:
You should be socializing WITHOUT drinking. Most people end up using alcohol as a crutch for socializing. Focus on loosening up and being playful, acknowledge hesitations and inhibitions consciously and decide intentionally to cut them loose or not. Being sober around drunks after approaching it this way takes practice but you get to practice in an environment around drunks who don't give a shit and are just glad they have a driver. Meanwhile your social gains translate into everyday real life because you're just being you and don't need to fuck your shit up with alcohol in order to get into that carefree playful mode.

TAKE CONTROL

Off the top of my head id do something like this

>haha sorry girls I'm not a frat boy who sips beer. I like a nice strong whiskey, of got a couple premium bottles back at my pad, you should come over later - I'll show them to you

Just be smooth and friendly like that.

this, I don't go out anymore. and I get the feeling that's not about to change as I'm spending the next 3 months at my parents' in a literal ghost town (not even a town really, it's just fields all around). such is life for a guy who starts school in january and is destitute as fuark.

Fucking Jesus Christ

>"sorry can't drink beer I'm over the age of 18, glass of water for me"

Literally nothing wrong with what I just said. If you're feeling cocky, reach out and touch them while you say it. It's called kino

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You think that wouldn't sound absolutely stupid if you said it in real life? If you actually said those words?