I don’t usually advocate lying, but if your companions are being sufficiently silly, maybe you should get ice water, drop in some blue food coloring you brought from home, and tell them it’s Romulan ale.
This is hilarious, but I suspect would not help in the situations where this was actually a problem.
This is hilarious, but I suspect would not help in the situations where this was actually a problem.
You could try it and see what happens. (Or use a different color and make up a different name.)
Heh. I did once (during college) bring a gigantic bottle of water, and for the first half of the party a lot of people assumed it was Vodka.
I’ll take this variant idea under consideration.