Drunk Driving?Follow

Have any of you ever done it? I'm having a debate with someone who is shockingly (to me) unrepentent about doing so himself. He managed to avoid getting pulled over but he did ding up his car pretty badly last weekend on a tree after leaving a party. He just shrugged and said no big deal, noone was hurt, no harm no foul yadda yadda. He's just normally such a responsible person that I am having a hard time reconciling his lack of remorse with the person I thought he was. He says that everyone has done it at one time or another. His attitude just made me feel like a prude.

Edited, Mar 21st 2009 6:51pm by Whimsi

They say don't drink & drive, or you might spill your drink...

I'm pretty ashamed to say that I have on multiple occasions. I haven't in probably five years or so, but senior year of high school and the first two years of college, I did. It's pretty ridiculous how easily I could convince myself that it was only a mile or two, no big deal, there's nobody on the road, etc. I mean, there were plenty of occasions where I said I was too drunk to drive and didn't, but there were certainly times where I shouldn't have driven. My wakeup call was when I clipped a telephone pole. I snapped my sideview mirror clean off my car.

I used to drive after drinking a bit. A few times I've driven while very wasted, a short distance home on a country-bumpkin road. I quit doing that about the time I could drink legally. These days one or two beers is my limit.

Actually, I was a bit tipsy driving home from my wedding reception. People kept giving me shots. Probably not a good thing to have done.

I drove once when I was a little tipsy, probably over the limit. I was driving this extremely wasted female friend of mine back to her place. There was this creepy guy at the party and I really didn't think it was safe to leave her there semi-conscious. It wasn't safe for me to drive her either, but I wasn't exactly thinking straight.

I was as careful as I could be, but I still felt pretty bad about it. I never told her that I'd been drinking; she'd probably freak out if I did.

Edited, Mar 21st 2009 9:44pm by zepoodle

Done it a couple of times, would never do it again.

Hell no

I do know this one guy that does it though. He had about five drinks and had to drive about 7 miles home, so we (the non drunk) took my car and followed him home. He was damn lucky that night.

I was tipsy, but not driving btw, I let the DD drive my car.

Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning and get it out of the way. Then go driving while the visibility is still good.

Not in over 33 years or so. Only one time was I very impared, though I didnt think so at the time, I actually got vertigo and spun the car around. I stopped for a bit by the side of the road and then continued home. That was the last time and it had to be back around 1977 -78.

Wouldn't both of those numbers include the numbers of them combined in their totals?

The closest I have come to drinking and driving is the morning after driving home. I would never drink and drive after a night out and have in the past left my car in situ or slept at a friends to avoid driving.

The people who annoy me are those that go out to drink and know they need to drive afterwards I think near all of us have driven home after a glass of wine or so (but no more).

There is an interesting problem in the UK. Wine used to be sold in smaller 125ml glasses but in recent years the population has shifted to using 175ml glasses. So having "a glass" of wine now, means a completely different thing to 10 or 15 years ago and people are not able to judge alchohol consumption so easily.
Add that beer is now being sold with higher alchohol percentages and there is a problem with a perception of what is acceptable to drink before you cannot drive. The safest method is to say "nothing" but then I hardly know anyone who has never driven having taken a single drink.

OP - I am glad I live nowhere near your dangerous friend. The fact he feels no remorse means he will likely drive like it again, I just hope he does not end up hurting someone.

Drunk driving is fun. There, I said it.

I've done it hundreds of times. I've totaled a couple cars while drunk. I have a DUI in my past. It was a lot of fun at the time. I can't tell you how many times I drove entirely blacked-out and discovered fresh and mysterious dents in the fenders of my Suburban the next morning.

One particularly memorable black-out(haha, oxymoron) occurred while I was camping. Last thing I remember was sitting with my feet up on the edge of the campfire, and then next I knew I awoke in the backseat of my Suburban, naked, and parked in front of a friend's house. I had driven several hours to get there, and remembered not a mile of it.

I don't drink any longer, but as spring made itself known here recently I had the old familiar urges to get drunk and drive around. It's just fun.

Never. I'm always the designated driver. Drinking has never been held an allure for me. Neither has getting high. I have more fun making up stories of my friends who blacked out and letting them believe that they got naked and pretended to be cheetahs on a Kenya preserve.