Have you ever drank and drove?

Smootchy

The post about texting made me think, have you ever drank and drove? I do not think texting & drinking are the same, but sorta. They could very easily have similar devistating results.

 

 

 (Drinking WHILE driving also counts. I know people who "drive up north" in the sticks and drink while driving and "it's OK because they aren't drunk yet" )

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gisa886

I had had six Smirnoff Green Apple things and wanted to go home. My husband who was just a boyfriend at the time didn't want to leave so I took the keys and headed out. I was driving like five miles and hour and got less than a mile away before they caught up to me. I was dumb 

RedWingsFan

Oh yeah.  We did all.the.time senior year of high school and summers home from college.  So stupid - we rationalized it with "well, we're going 7 turns from M's house to B's, so it's all good". 

Thank goodness nobody ever got in an accident or hurt someone, but looking back on it scares the bejeebus out of me.

 

CinemaGoddess

Yup, when I was young and SUPER DUMB. 

aruiz1982

I voted never but it really should have been ss. I have never driven after even one drink, but in high school I had a friend that was our designated drunk driver "because she was soooo good at it". We were f-ing idiots, thank god we never hurt anyone.

Smootchy

gwinnygirl:

Yes, I got a DUI at 8pm on New Year's Eve when I was 18. 

About 7 years ago my cousin was in a horrific car accident that disfigured him & killed his best friend.  This was an eye opener for me.  He was right at the legal limit & still lost control.  I hadn't been drinking & driving since my own arrest, but this made me even more adamant about not being in a vehicle with someone who had and offering to be a DD if need be.

I thankfully never got a DUI or anything, but 2 of my closest friends did. I knew that could easily have been me, and probably should've been.

Then a kid 2 years my junior got killed in while he was drinking and driving right at the top of my street (sorta a twisty turn street) Eye Opener... Sad

Then my brother who was the DD for his friends, was rear ended by a drunk driver (who happened to be a lawyer... Who happened to not even have a license and had 8 DUI's?!!?!! Why he wasn't in jail is beyond me.)

Anyway, seeing my brother and all his back surgery's later... (12 total) Sucks. Thank God he was't paralized or killed. Although he is in major pain everyday. Poor guy.

mamainseptember

I can honestly say that I have never even had one drink and driven a car. I had a good friend in high school that was a few years older and was driving home from a club, drunk and killed himself and the 4 other people in the car. That was enough for me.

SuperCuteBenz

Yes, my friends and I did in college. Pretty much weekly. It makes me ill just thinking about how stupid we were. I am SO thankful that nothing ever happened.

We don't drink and drive at all anymore. That means not even driving after a beer. My DH had a DUI in college, and hasn't done it since. He sometimes gets weird looks from people, but if I am not there to drive him, then he doesn't drink. If he does have a drink (he won't have more than one), then he will only do so if he knows he will be there for several hours (ex, watching a football game at a friends, etc). The consequences aren't worth it to either of us.

hmp1

A lot when I was young. Nothing ever happened, thank God.  Now, I will have a glass of wine and drive but that's it. DH will have 2 beer and drive.

KoalaBear103

I didn't read all the options before replying. I will have 1 drink if I know I will be somewhere for a while, otherwise I won't have anything. I am always the DD for DH and his friends, and I'll even be DD for BIL and his friends when they need it. I'd much rather them call me for a ride than drive themselves (which they are dumb enough to do)-so they know my phone is always on.

white318

I always had a DD arranged (even in my college stupid days) but I had a few times where my DD decided to hook up.. or one time when my best friend decided she didn't like to drive unfamiliar places in the dark.  I have never been so scared in my life... and now we always stop drinking well before we have to drive home... or one of us has only a couple and stops.

shakes

If one glass of wine with dinner and driving 2-3 hours later counts, then yes. Any other context then no.

I have lost 3 people to DDing. One of my closest childhood friends was killed walking across the street. He and his friends went to a University bar just off campus, they walked specifically so there were no worries. A guy from the same bar was driving his pick up through campus to get home faster and because no "real" cops were on campus property. He hit Mike doing 95 (that's kilometers here not miles).

My mom was busted for DDing a month after she and my dad split up (I was 17 at the time). She almost drove onto the highway via the off ramp. When R.I.D.E stopped her she sat on the road bc she couldn't walk. I will never truly truly forgive her for that. She still denies she was drunk, or at least did the last time it came up in convo a few years back.

It sucks, its the most selfish thing a person can do.

MamaNikita

i was always good in high school and college about not drinking and driving.  however, i for some reason thought it was okay to smoke pot and drive.  there was one time i was driving back to college on a sunday night stoned and got all paranoid because this guy was right on my tail.  i finally pulled over to let him by because i was so freaked out.  when i got back to my dorm, one of my high school friends called me and asked me if i had driven back to school that night, and then informed me he was behind me and i was going about 10 mph.  at that point i learned that it is not necessarily safer to smoke pot and drive.  

J+MS

I really haven't. 

Although, I have got drunk at night, woke up and drove the next day and then realized I was still a little drunk. oops. 

zeptattoo

Yeah, but i never drove drunk.  I would let it wear off or not get to that point if I knew I had to drive home.

JillAly

mainerocks:

This post reminds me of a statistic I saw once on the percentage of drivers on the road on a weekend night after Xpm that are drunk - it was astounding and I always think about that when I'm driving at night. Scary stuff.

1 out of every 7 people leaving a bar on an average Fri/Sat night Drives while intoxicated

The average DWI violator drives while intoxicated 83 times a year

I can't go into detail too much why I know this - but my job involves DWI and crash reconstruction in law enforcement.  You wouldn't want to know what I've seen.  If anyone did, they would never have another drink and drive.

There is 1 thing I do want to say.  I see a lot of people say "I only had 2 drinks"  or "I would only have 1 drink and drive".  The problem is not only the number of drinks.  It is what "1 drink" really is vs. what you get at a bar/wedding/restaurant.  You could think you had 1 drink but in reality, it had the amount of alcohol of 3 drinks.  So...

1 drink equals:
one 1.25 oz shot OR 4 oz glass of wine OR 12 oz beer (standard beer - not a high alcohol beer).  

If your glass contains more than that amount of alcohol, you may believe it is one drink, but it is not. 

Women get higher BACs on the same amount of alcohol because we have less water in our bodies - so it is more potent to us than it would be to a man.  Time is the only thing to lessen intoxication - not coffee, food, showers, etc.  That is why the pp said she was pulled over the next morning- enough time had not passed.  The average person loses .015-.018 per hour.  That is not a lot - less than one drink per hour. 

Ok- off my soap box.  Sorry if it's preachy- this is what I do all day and I am very passionate about saving lives any way I can.

 

RedWingsFan

JillAly:

mainerocks:

This post reminds me of a statistic I saw once on the percentage of drivers on the road on a weekend night after Xpm that are drunk - it was astounding and I always think about that when I'm driving at night. Scary stuff.

1 out of every 7 people leaving a bar on an average Fri/Sat night Drives while intoxicated

The average DWI violator drives while intoxicated 83 times a year

I can't go into detail too much why I know this - but my job involves DWI and crash reconstruction in law enforcement.  You wouldn't want to know what I've seen.  If anyone did, they would never have another drink and drive.

There is 1 thing I do want to say.  I see a lot of people say "I only had 2 drinks"  or "I would only have 1 drink and drive".  The problem is not only the number of drinks.  It is what "1 drink" really is vs. what you get at a bar/wedding/restaurant.  You could think you had 1 drink but in reality, it had the amount of alcohol of 3 drinks.  So...

1 drink equals:
one 1.25 oz shot OR 4 oz glass of wine OR 12 oz beer (standard beer - not a high alcohol beer).  

If your glass contains more than that amount of alcohol, you may believe it is one drink, but it is not. 

Women get higher BACs on the same amount of alcohol because we have less water in our bodies - so it is more potent to us than it would be to a man.  Time is the only thing to lessen intoxication - not coffee, food, showers, etc.  That is why the pp said she was pulled over the next morning- enough time had not passed.  The average person loses .015-.018 per hour.  That is not a lot - less than one drink per hour. 

Ok- off my soap box.  Sorry if it's preachy- this is what I do all day and I am very passionate about saving lives any way I can.

 

That is all very interesting,

MegGary

Yes more than I care to remember. When I was in HS I was always the responsible driver. Never drank & drove. Than once I got into my 20's I left caution to the wind. Thinking about what could of happened makes my stomach turn. Nothing I am proud of at all. Actually pretty ashamed of it. I was lucky because I never got in trouble & never hurt anyone.  I don't do it anymore. I don't really drink anymore either. If I do DH will drive or visa versa. I honestly have no clue how I did it all those years because now I freak out if I've had one drink & think about driving.