When someone offers you alcohol at a party, saying no once won't work. You need to refuse three to seven times until they get annoyed and leave you alone. After enough refusals, they'll assume you're serious and move on to someone else.
How many nos does it take for peer pressure to stop? One? Not necessarily. I wish it did. I say to my friend, no to the beer. They're gonna say again, come on, have a beer. So it wasn't one, right? How many times do you think before they get fed up and they walk away? Just yell out numbers. I heard 3, I heard 7. Yeah, 5. That's the typical answer. 3, 5, 7 at most. So you nailed it on the dot. All right, which means all I have to know in my head, just say no a few more times and this thing's over with. Why is it over with? Because they're gonna get annoyed that I'm not doing what they want. They're gonna move on to somebody else to have a beer with them. How many agree that's probably what's gonna happen at the party? Yes or no? Yes. Yes! So all I gotta do is wait this out. They're gonna walk away. And by the way, after a while, they know that's who you are. They don't even bother.
