Drunk Drove . .

[Forty0ztoFreedom]

Man, feeling really guilty about this . . I promised myself I would never do it again, but the other night out at a little party, late-night, friends were passed out drunk and I knew it was getting too late so I pounded a glass of water and decided to grab them and leave. I wasn't HAMMERED or anything, but it was to the point where I was thinking of getting off an exit and chilling for a while in a random town.

Damn, I told myself I wouldn't even drink too much that night too. But once you have a few, you feel like "pffft, nothing's gonna happen" and driving is the last thing on your mind. Anyone have a similar problem? You go online and look for tips and stuff but you only find "It's evil & you're evil if you do it AAAAHH" type of stuff. I mean, honestly almost EVERY person/drinker I know drives under the influence occasionally. No guilt about it, either. Maybe it comes with being in a small-town . .

I guess the worst part is I let other people influence it. My parents (still live at home) must have been wondering where I was so I should just get home and not deal with a lecture about getting too drunk so I couldn't drive, my friends who are p*ssies and passed out so they must want to get home . . UGH. So this awful habit of not controlling my own actions could have cost me my life, and others obviously.

Lots to work on . .

 

[Wiesman44]

i drive drunk sometimes. Don't want to. But want to sleep in my own bed or dont want to leave my car in a random parking lot.

I dont like doing it, but sure as hell don't feel guilty, just b/c society throws up some laws about drunk driving. Hell drunk driving never used to be illegal.

 

[user43770]

i drive drunk sometimes. Don't want to. But want to sleep in my own bed or dont want to leave my car in a random parking lot.

I dont like doing it, but sure as hell don't feel guilty, just b/c society throws up some laws about drunk driving. Hell drunk driving never used to be illegal.

Everybody has their limit. As long as you know yours there shouldn't be a problem.

 

[SmoothTalker]

I am assuming when you say drive drunk, you mean actually drunk, not "I had a beer at the beginning of the night and might have .01 BAC.

You guys are both morons.

Yeah, I like sleeping in my own bed too, and don't like paying for cabs/hotels, whatever. But those aren't excuses and I don't drive drunk. Plan ahead, get friends to drive, have some self control, its really not that hard.

And it's illegal for a reason. If you don't care about your own life that's bad enough. But fine, whatever, you guys have private health care so its not my money piecing you back together. But you have absolutely no right to endanger the lives of other people on the road because you couldn't plan ahead.

Lots of things use to be legal including dueling, torture, and slavery, but I guess you're okay with all those things since its just society that threw up bs laws against them.

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

I am assuming when you say drive drunk, you mean actually drunk, not "I had a beer at the beginning of the night and might have .01 BAC.

You guys are both morons.

Yeah, I like sleeping in my own bed too, and don't like paying for cabs/hotels, whatever. But those aren't excuses and I don't drive drunk. Plan ahead, get friends to drive, have some self control, its really not that hard.

And it's illegal for a reason. If you don't care about your own life that's bad enough. But fine, whatever, you guys have private health care so its not my money piecing you back together. But you have absolutely no right to endanger the lives of other people on the road because you couldn't plan ahead.

Lots of things use to be legal including dueling, torture, and slavery, but I guess you're okay with all those things since its just society that threw up bs laws against them.

truth.

logic: other people don't have this trait

Wiesman44: that was the worst excuse to drive drunk.

 

[Columbia]

I dont like doing it, but sure as hell don't feel guilty, just b/c society throws up some laws about drunk driving. Hell drunk driving never used to be illegal.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? A lot of very evil and f*cked up stuff 'never used to be illegal'. Slavery wasn't illegal at one time, that doesn't mean it's right. I agree with Smoothtalker. You have to be an absolute moron to drink drive, and you've just proven the fact with that ridiculous defense of your idiocy.

My childhood best friend is currently serving 20 years in prison for killing a little girl while driving drunk: the one time I spoke to him after the accident the only thing I said was that I wished he had died and not some innocent stranger.

 

[3countriesPlan]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? A lot of very evil and f*cked up stuff 'never used to be illegal'. Slavery wasn't illegal at one time, that doesn't mean it's right. I agree with Smoothtalker. You have to be an absolute moron to drink drive, and you've just proven the fact with that ridiculous defense of your idiocy.

My childhood best friend is currently serving 20 years in prison for killing a little girl while driving drunk: the one time I spoke to him after the accident the only thing I said was that I wished he had died and not some innocent stranger.

Why you gotta be such a prick to your friend.... unless he was telling you how happy he was that he hit someone so hard their arm got stuck in his back trunk you should at least refrain from saying things like you wish he had died.

 

[Columbia]

I was a prick to him because he killed a little girl. Was that not evident in my post? I told him I wish he had died instead because if someone had to die, it should have been him and not her. Do you disagree?

The past is the one true judgment of a man, because it is the only thing that no man can buy back. I don't pull any punches, ever, and if you mess up like that and take a little girl's life away because you are too much of a dope to pay for a cab home, I'm not going to worry about saving your f*cking feelings, am I?

 

[BlakeW5]

I'm not going to say driving drunk is wrong or right, but there is a CLEAR difference between drunk and legally drunk. I've been pulled over and blew a .05 before and the cops totally blew it out of proportion. I could operate my vehicle fine, I had no problem passing field-sobriety tests and still I was given the "people like you are the reason I became a cop speech".

I know what it's like to live in a small town. My county is only 10,000 people. We have no cabs, no hotels, no places to stay. Driving home really is the only choice you have. Just know the possible consequences and outcomes of your actions. Before you ever drive after consuming alcohol be sure you can live with what may happen. Whether you're legally drunk or not, if you're in an accident you WILL BE automatically at fault if you've consumed any alcohol at all ( it isn't fair, but neither is life and that's just the way it is).

Columbia, I understand where you're coming from (a friend of mine was in the same situation, 1 kid and a mother of 5) but I think it's f-ed up you turned on him like that. True his actions brought about the death of an innocent person (and you're right to be disgusted by that), but just at the time he needed true friends the most you turned on him. I was disgusted by the consequences of my friends actions but people make mistakes, some just pay for it more. If he really was your friend you would have been there for him, period. Don't use the "she was innocent" excuse either. Innocent people die every g-d day that no one loses sleep over. The cold fact of life is you don't have to do anything wrong to die, it happens whether you're innocent or guilty. Yeah it sucks that a little girl never got to grow up, but he was your friend and when he really needed someone to be there you break out a line like that..... It's a pretty sh*tty move on your part to make him feel worse. Do you honestly think that situation doesn't weigh on his mind everyday?

I'm not saying driving drunk is OK by any means. I'm just saying everyone makes mistakes. Just because your mistake didn't cause someone to die doesn't make it any less of a mistake than someone else's.


But to the OP, just be sure you can live with the consequences of you actions. Don't do things you'll regret or can't live down

 

[Wiesman44]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? A lot of very evil and f*cked up stuff 'never used to be illegal'. Slavery wasn't illegal at one time, that doesn't mean it's right. I agree with Smoothtalker. You have to be an absolute moron to drink drive, and you've just proven the fact with that ridiculous defense of your idiocy.

My childhood best friend is currently serving 20 years in prison for killing a little girl while driving drunk: the one time I spoke to him after the accident the only thing I said was that I wished he had died and not some innocent stranger.

Hah, I suppose I am a moron, but I dont care. My drunk driving skills are fine. I won't be killing anyone any time soon. As I said before, I dont like doing, but it happens. And my excuses weren't horrible. i value my sleep, and sure as hell will not be leaving my car unattended. Sometimes u just gotta take risks and life, and let fate take its course.

Don't believe me ? I dont care. Take your morals and ethos and shove it. I've got my own morals I adhere to that are not driven by society. 80% of people are idiots anyway.

 

[Columbia]

Don't believe me ? I dont care. Take your morals and ethos and shove it. I've got my own morals I adhere to that are not driven by society. 80% of people are idiots anyway.

I think the figure is closer to 95%, although I go to university so I think there's a disproportionate number of idiots around here. Anyway I hope for your sake you're right about your drunk driving skills. If you were actually so confident that you wouldn't (ever) kill someone then you wouldn't feel guilty, just my 2 cents.

Blake I see where you're coming from, but I never said the guy showed remorse over what he'd done. We were also barely acquaintances by the time I told him this, we had been childhood best friends (as I said) but had hardly spoken for 4+ years.

 

[BlakeW5]

Blake I see where you're coming from, but I never said the guy showed remorse over what he'd done. We were also barely acquaintances by the time I told him this, we had been childhood best friends (as I said) but had hardly spoken for 4+ years.

True. If that's the case then I definately understand your reaction. If a friend of mine did that and didn't feel the slightest bit of remorse I would naturally have to question if they really were the person I thought they were.

 

[WaRpEd]

Quit drinking and driving numbnutts...:nono:

 

[Luveno]

Don't drive drunk.

Drunk drivers are easy as pie to spot. So when you get pulled over, it'll be too late for you to take it back.

The fact that you are a drunk driver will be in your permanent criminal record. Nobody will hire you. Everyone will know that you're a fool.

God forbid you kill someone while driving drunk. Of course, there's also a very high chance that you'll kill yourself in an accident too.

Don't be an idiot. Just get a cab or something. Or better yet, find a girl who'll take you home.

 

[saber]

I used to drive drunk and was lucky nothing happened..not something I would recomend

Its no secret that there are countless people getting on the roads every night drunk...I think I heard an estimate like 80% of people driving after 10 have some level of alcohol in them

Honestly though unless you get hammered its pretty easy to drive safely...

lets say you go out at like 10pm and get down 3 beers or 36oz right at the start

then just drink one more beer between then and 2am...

thats an hour per beer which is more than enough to drive safely and legally

If you chug a water bottle as soon as you get home you wont even feel it in the morning

 

[TheHumanist]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGV4PsEwZSM

Even in this site there's a saying to "live and let live." It's your life and your choice of how you want to live it, you are responsible for yourself for everything including happiness and any risks you take. However, the one thing I can't let go is risking other people's lives. If it just yours, at least it just yours. Also thinking by the logic the world is 80% or 95% full of idiots give in a way more reason not to, you could kill one of the dumb people, though I doubt you would ever be nonchalant after running over someone but you could also reduce the already small population of smart people.

 

[Forty0ztoFreedom]

Thanks for the replies. It is much harder to avoid, living in a small town. There are no cabs. I can't just "call a cab." And chances are, any friends you'd call for a ride are wasted too.

All the statistics and reasons not to make sense now, sober, but when the bar's closing and you hear about a hot party across town that everyone else is driving drunk too (herd mentality I think its called . . makes it seem ok) . . or you're at a party in another town, not sober yet and friends are acting like pvssies and want to go home to their fvcking beds like children. Or you told people you'd be home earlier than you probably could, and think of them worrying about you out . .