58. Drinking for Courage

My host parents and I are sitting around the dinner table chatting.

Stefan (host father): Tim, in Moldova sometimes young men will drink two or three glasses of wine to get courage to talk to a pretty girl.
Me: Yes, it’s similar in the United States except we usually drink liquor or beer.
Stefan: Hear that Maria? It is the same all over the world, people are people.
. . .
Maria (host mother): Did you drink wine before you talked to me?
Stefan: No.