Being a smartass and deflecting the question by saying "Because I don't want to get you pregnant" might be a good idea, though there are some other options.
Are you familiar with Ramit Sethi? I could be mentioning him way to much, but he's basically a career/networking expert, so you might want to google him and opt-in to his mailing list. His free information is la crème de la crème.
In any case, he considers the question:
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"Girls I met at bars would keep asking me, 'Where's your drink?'"
I quit drinking years ago due to some pretty severe health conditions, and the girls I met at bars would pummel me with a relentless barrage of questions like: "Where's your drink?" "Want a drink?" "What are you drinking?" and 174 permutations thereof.
So one day, out of pure frustration, I decided to test some responses. I chose these 3:
Number 1: "I don't drink".
Number 2: "I'm not drinking".
Number 3: "I quit drinking".
With a bit of thinking of psychology, it should be obvious which of the two answers resulted in insulting responses from the girls and which response resulted in positive responses.
However, the bottom line is this: the advice here is a great springboard, but go out there and
test your responses. If you get negative reception from a particular response, stop using it. For the ones that get positive reception, test among those and stick with the ones that have high success rates.
Oh, and club soda/carbonated water shows class as you could get away with saying its a vodka soda.
