have you ever driven drunk?

[w8liftinglady]

I need to drive 0.3 miles to get cigars.What do you think?

[LaraMN]

1. Gah! Walk!

Of the stupid things I've done (and there are many,) I've never driven drunk.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Why not walk?

[BarenakedLady]

3. When I was young and stupid

Walk if you must.

[Connonym]

14. Times have changed

It was always wrong to drive drunk but you had to be pretty damned drunk for anyone to even mention it back then 20 years ago when I was a young punk. I remember one occasion in particular where the next day I looked at how poorly I had parked my car and it really struck me how reckless I had been. I was just really lucky that nothing bad happened.

[BarenakedLady]

22. Yes

I look back now and think how damn lucky (as well as how fucking stupid) I was to take the risk.

:banghead:

[Connonym]

4. It's not worth it

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. I agree -- walk there.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Yes, but I say walk. Better yet, stay home.

No woman should walk alone under the influence at night. It's not worth the risk. I have Sniffa coem with me across the street to the store if I'm drunk, b/c you can't be too careful :hug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. Walk.. That will take 10 minutes..

[RedCappedBandit]

8. Walk, or quit smoking.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Walk. The air will do you good.

And not getting into an accident will do you better.

[LeftyMom]

10. Hell no.

I hardly ever drink anyway, but I don't have even one drink if I might have to get in the car for any reason before morning.

A family friend survived being hit by a drunk driver but he lost an arm. I could never in a million years do that to anybody.

[Norwood]

11. Might as well just walk since its that close

I've driven drunk quite a few times, and I know its an extremely dumb thing to do. I've just been real lucky, haven't been caught once.

[Inchworm]

12. Don't you mean "Should I drive drunk when I could walk a short distance?"

just sayin...

Walk.

:think:

[Breeze54]

13. Any neighbors that can give you a lift?

:shrug:

What ever you do, be careful.

But if you're really that skunky, then just walk and stay on the sidewalk!

0.3 miles doesn't seem that far away. What's that? Like two blocks?

[RetroLounge]

15. Yes, and I'm damn lucky to be alive.

Walk.

RL

[Haole Girl]

16. Having known 3 people killed by drunk drivers...

I vote no.

[SeattleGirl]

17. Yes, but that was nearly 30 years ago.

I would never EVER do that again.

I'm very thankful I didn't hurt or kill anyone when I did that.

[Omphaloskepsis]

18. If you had started walking instead of posting this thread...

You would be standing in line for your smokes right now.

[cynatnite]

19. Not worth it...

I did once and I had three beers. It was years ago and they weren't as harsh as they are now. Still spent the night in jail, went to court the next day and paid a fine. Could have been a lot worse.

No way will I have even a hint of alcohol in my system and drive. Don't do it.

[w8liftinglady]

20. OK,OK..I'm not driving.Get over it

I was just asking!I am a nurse,for crying out loud!

[Breeze54]

21. Hey? You asked! People care about you, that's all.

;)

:toast:

[LostinVA]

70. I don't care if she kills herself -- that's her business

I dom however, care about all the innocent people who she could kill. I've had a friend murdered by a drunk driver.

We need much harsher measures in this country against people who do this. Ugh.

As many time sin my youth I was blind drunk, I never drove drunk, allowed anyone to, or got in a car with anyone who was. Doing so is criminal and irresponsible.

[Breeze54]

78. I was hit by a drunk driver, so I do know but I also do

care if she kills herself and/or someone else!

At least she asked before she did anything stupid. Maybe she just needed to hear it from us
and that was her way of stopping herself because deep down she knew that it was a bad idea
and she shouldn't go for the cigarettes.

[bicentennial_baby]

No offense, but I'm gonna say this.

Yes, you are a nurse, but from what I've read you are also an alcoholic. Please, for your own and your patients' sake, get some help.

[BarenakedLady]

24. You asked, we answered.

I'm glad you aren't driving though.

We do care about your welfare. :hug:

ps. My best friend competes in body building and is also training to be a nurse! You aren't named Jolie, btw are you? LoL. ;)

[HEyHEY]

27. Trying to make work?

;-)

[Midlodemocrat]

44. "youre'a nurse????"

And you were considering putting innocent people in harm's way? You should lose your license.

I can't believe someone would ask whether it was okay to drive drunk. Series. Get help.

[nini]

53. Get over it? As someone who was hit head on and disabled by a drunk driver..

I will never get over it. You ask a fucking stupid question and get snippy when you get the right answers?

It's NOTHING to joke about - no matter what.

Lots of loved ones of innocents who were killed, and disabled (both emotionally and physically) folks out there that would love to see anyone who can't fucking control themselves with their drinking to live in our shoes for a few days to see what the aftermath is after your binge. It's no fucking fun to have your life turned upside down because some asshole has not self control.


:grr:

[LeftyMom]

23. Rehab.

Maybe it's time to think about it. :shrug:

[HEyHEY]

28. You don't drink?

[LeftyMom]

30. Very rarely and no hard liquor.

I'm tiny and I have a fast metabolism. I drink about a beer and a half and I fall asleep, which is fine with me because I'm not crazy about the feeling anyhow.

I go through maybe two cases of beer a year, and most of those wind up in my sister and her friends when they run out of whatever they're working on and raid the fridge.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. Think of all the trees you can puke on if you walk.

Have a little fun with your drunk. :puke: :puke: :puke:

:rofl:

[HEyHEY]

26. Fuck yeah

Young and stupid. Now, never, as a reporter I've seen enough bodies from that shit to last a lifetime.

[MrSlayer]

29. Yes, and it's a good thing I was also on coke.

Otherwise I might have been impaired.

[QMPMom]

31. Yes, when I was much younger and stupider.

About 28 years ago I drove 30 miles home and don't remember a bit of it. I am lucky to be alive.

I haven't been drunk since that night and I never will be again.

[Kajsa]

32. No, no way.

I know you've heard it many times here.

Back in the bad 'ole days I did it, and had absolutely
no idea how I got home.

My HP was there, but he was getting pissed that I kept
doing that shit! He wasn't ready for me, yet.

I stopped and the rest is history that you know.

[Kajsa]

46. Not to mention the people who's lives

I put at risk!!

I failed to add that extremely important point
last night.

Like I said, HP was there, but he was getting
sick of me tempting death.

[Redneck Socialist]

33. Three tenths of a mile! Walk you drunken slacker! n/t

[Digit]

34. Let me count the ways....

When I was much younger and much more stupid, I and my peers would drive fitshafed.
I can recall drinking beer all night in Georgetown only to join a friend in a test of who can hold the most tequila shots. I had 7 shots and I am all of 4'11".

I drove across Memorial bridge (even though I started out in Georgetown)with one eye covered so I could see to drive. Mind you, we are talking 35 years ago.

The Capitol Police would catch me on several occasions but were more amused by my antics and just told me to be careful. I was a real hoot when drunk back then.

I can't tell you how many times I drove home drunk...more than I can count. That one eye trick really works when you are crosseyed drunk. The awareness was not there back then...we did not know the consequences.

Nowadays, I wonder how in the hell I survived or managed not to ever have an accident.
My daughter does not know my history as I don't want to condone my actions. (ie, I got away with it, and you can, too)

If I have even ONE drink nowadays, I will not drive at all. If I go out with a group of friends, I will volunteer as the designated driver and will not have anything besides soda to drink....I don't want to HAVE to trust them to keep sober.

Shhh....don't tell my daughter, k?

[SPKrazy]

35. No you shouldn't drive

yes I've driven drunk when I was young and stupid. I haven't drank in 22 years now, but I drove drunk, and I'm not proud of that. I'm amazed I didn't kill anyone. I couldn't have lived with myself if I had. So I'm very glad for those people I put at risk by my idiocy, that I didn't kill or hurt them and I'm very sorry that I did such stupid things. I came out of a blackout driving the wrong way on a four lane highway. They say insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different outcome.

It was always the same. Somehow the higher power must have intervened in the lives of others and in me. Because I should never have been driving and you don't need cigars. Not at the risk of hurting or killing someone because you were drunk.

:pals:

[aquaman]

36. I did once when I was 16......

I went airborne and landed in the mayor of my then town's front yard. I was of course arrested. Have never drunk a sip of alcohol and driven a car at the same time again.

[Sapphocrat]

37. I think...

...that driving drunk is the most irresponsible thing a person could ever do.

I think to even consider it means you'd better tuck yourself the fuck into bed and forget about your goddamn cigars.

I think that you should call your best friend to come over and take your car keys away from you until you give up drinking altogether.

I think anyone who gets behind the wheel drunk deserves life imprisonment to keep them from killing any one of the rest of us.

I think drunk drivers are the fucking scum of the earth.

I think if you need proof of how fucked-up drinking and driving is, I'd be happy to show you pictures of people with their skulls sliced off down to their eyebrows due to assholes who thought they could drive 0.3 miles drunk without incident.

I think drunk drivers should be forced to attend the funeral of a dead teen and hold the hand of her mother throughout the entire Rosary, and see if they can keep from crumpling under the unfairness of it all.

I think drunk drivers should be sentenced to serving ten years catering to the most intimate needs of paraplegic accident victims.

I think the very question of whether one should even entertain the idea of driving drunk makes me want to vomit.

I think you should look at this:




Sign me,

Lost Three High School Friends
Due to Fucked-Up, Irresponsible
Drunk Drivers, All of Whom Are in
Prison Now, Where They Deserve to
Be for the Rest of Their Sorry Lives

[Midlodemocrat]

45. Fantastic post, Saphhocrat.

Signed,

Friend of Jackie, whose husband Mike was killed by a drunk driver, leaving her with two kids to raise on her own.

[Scooter24]

38. Walk!

Please!

[cwydro]

39. I did that

many years ago, when I was very young and very stupid.

Some angel was watching over me.

I would never do that now. Never.

[MrScorpio]

40. Fuck No

That's what I think

Walk instead

[Wapsie B]

41. Well I hope by this time you walked to and fro

and that you're safe and sound back at home.

[MissMarple]

42. It depends on what your definition of drunk is.

:rofl:

Actually, in college, I was the least "drunk" (meaning not all that much) and I was sent to the liquor store for more beer, with male escort, of course . That is when I learned to drive a "stick". That would be how to manage a clutch and get into the proper gears. We were PAs sometimes known as personnel/residential assistants. :shrug: Yes, well...we had been drinking a lot of beer. Anyhoo... It was a lot of fun.

[Sapphocrat]

43. A lot of fun, until you kill somebody.

Totally irresponsible. You should be ashamed of your abominable, booze-blind lack of judgment -- not bragging about your miraculous dodge of the bullet.

You could have killed someone.

Do you not care?

Have you no conscience?

Have you no shame?

[MissMarple]

47. Honey, get a grip. I would never do that now. It was a different world back then.

Really different. And if you will note, I wasn't really "drunk". It was college, we were the responsible kids, the PA's. Sorry to have offended. The 60's and before were really different. If we had been stopped the police would have told us to go home. Back then kids weren't even in car seats. The car seats that were available were unsecured, they had bars that fit under the seat cushions. And seat belts...if you had them they quickly disappeared into the cushions. And that is truth to tell. Would I do that now? No, of course not. I'm so sorry to have offended, but, many folks my age have some experiences similar to that one. And, yes, it was hilarious at the time. And I did learn to use a clutch.

And I knew all about the consequences, my mom was an R.N. in a rural hospital. That was when R.N.'s still wore white and their skirts rustled when they walked down the hall. One night she needed a complete change of clothes, including shoes, because there was so much blood from car accident victims. Maybe I'm just a bit too used to dark humor. There are a lot of doctors and nurses in my family, and EMT's. The stories can be pretty gross, and they laugh about some pretty dark things. I think humor helps them get through the tragedy.

Care, conscience, and shame. For that particular experience...no.

[Sapphocrat]

49. Glad you've seen the error of your ways since your careless youth.

Beyond that:

1) Don't pull the age card on me. I remember the LSD-fueled 60s -- and the coke-fueled 70s -- quite well. There is no excuse for fucking oneself up and endangering the lives of others. You want to kill yourself on booze, coke, horse, whatever your pleasure? Great, have at it -- but stay home and don't risk killing me or my loved ones on the road. And don't insult me with lame excuses about the "60's and before" being "really different." Dead is dead is dead -- and stupid and irresponsible and reckless is still stupid and irresponsible and reckless, no matter the decade.

2) My grip's just fine, thanks.

3) Don't call me "honey."

4) If your mom was an R.N., you should have known better, whether you were/are 8, 18, or 68. No excuses. Drunk driving is irresponsible and unforgivable.

5) You were fucking lucky. I'm glad it's so "hilarious" to you now. I pray to God you will always be able to shuck it off with such devil-may-care nonchalance.

[MissMarple]

51. Have issues? I've never done drugs. Excuses?

I wasn't driving "drunk". Get a grip.

[Sapphocrat]

54. You weren't driving drunk?

"Actually, in college, I was the least "drunk" (meaning not all that much)..."

Are you going to try to convince me now that a person can be just a little bit pregnant, too? Drunk is drunk is drunk.

Stop hedging. Own it. You drove drunk. You grew up. You are an adult now, and you don't do it anymore. Good. I sincerely applaud you for seeing the error of your early years. I thank you, on bended knee, and with bowed head, for ceasing to endanger my life, and the lives of the people I love.

My only "issue" here is with drunk drivers. Kindly do not attempt to undermine my point, which is simply: Drunk driving is stupid, irresponsible, and reckless. It is not some funny, gee-whiz-I-was-just-a-kid youthful indiscretion. It is not "hilarious." It is dead serious.

[MissMarple]

60. We are at cross purposes here.

"It depends on what your definition of drunk is." was tongue in cheek, somewhat clintonesque. And yes, I was not all that drunk. You are sensitized to that. I'm not. And pretty much, that is where we are. I reread my post, and it was a bit over the top, way too many smilies. I just read your post about your friend. I didn't read any of the previous posts to this thread when I first responded. I am so sorry. I would not have so posted as I did.

Also, if I had been over the limit, I wouldn't have been able to drive the car, back then, pretty much any car. I didn't drink that much. That is why the responsible guys sent me to the liquor store, with an escort. I'm the girl guys took home after teen night at the community center with the girl they were staying with sat in the middle of the front seat. I can't tell you how Taylor Swift that was.

Again, I am sorry about your friend. We have recently lost a brave young man to the current conflict, the older brother of two of my son's best friends. My pain must be a shadow of yours. Peace :hug:

[Sapphocrat]

61. Thank you for understanding.

And peace be to you as well.

[cynatnite]

58. Unforgivable?

Are you kidding me?

:wtf:

[Sapphocrat]

62. How could I be kidding you...

...when I wasn't talking to you?

[cynatnite]

64. It's a forum and anyone can interject at any time...

I'm just surprised to hear anyone say that drinking and driving is unforgivable...and at DU of all places. :shrug:

[MissMarple]

65. Thank you.

Folks have drinks, or a drink, and drive all the time. It is the over the legal limit intoxicated, stupid idiots and immature kids that cause most of our problems and tragedies. And please, any one noting this, I said, "most". I am not advocating driving drunk. I even discourage driving and talking on a cell phone, as my children are perfectly able to explain to you. But they won't... most likely.

[BreweryYardRat]

48. I don't drive drunk.

I have people check me out every fifteen minutes until I'm sober when I'm getting ready to go home.

[Skittles]

50. you know you shouldn't do it

that's why you're posting so do the right thing and walk or forgo your smoke

[mzteris]

52. saw this in GD and thought of your post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1523132

[hyphenate]

55. Nope

But if I could still walk, .3 miles would be worth the walk to me!

[hyphenate]

56. BTW

When I was young and stupid, I only drank around people and if I were staying with someone, I'd make plans to stay the night. On the other hand, I was often the hostess. so I let people stay over if we were going to be drinking. I remember one night my friends taped me "snoring" without me being aware of it, and it was a good laugh the next day.

[Maddy McCall]

57. A nurse who drives drunk to buy cigars.

You can't make this shit up.

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

59. It just writes itself, doesn't it? :)

[EFerrari]

66. She's going to put me out of business.

[NoodleBoy]

63. cigars? what kind do you smoke?

I prefer cigarillos. Best I've had in that category have been Davidoff Silvers; for flavored cigars--I don't smoke alot, so I can still taste things--mildly flavored CAO's are nice, and Drew Estate Naturals Acid cigarillos if I feel like smoking a pixie stick.

But tell me-- what do you smoke?

[BlueIris]

67. Jesus Christ. Get help?

[Dragonbreathp9d]

68. never have, never will

stupidest thing I've ever done is drive while tripping mushrooms, thought I was down until I got in the car.... jesus christ

[LostinVA]

69. A friend of mine was murdered by a drunk driver

Why don't you ask her parents?

[myrna minx]

73. My father was killed by a drunk driver when I was a 6

and my brother when I was a teen. Perhaps the cigar smoking, drunk driving nurse would like to ask my mom.

[LostinVA]

74. Exactly -- I bet she'd have something to say

Your losses are horrific. I know how I felt (and still feel) about what happened to my friend.

:hug:

[myrna minx]

76. Even through this nurse demanded what we "get over" her OP up thread,

unfortunately you just never "get over" the loss of loved ones. You just never do. :hug: I'm sorry for the loss of your dear friend. :hug:

[LostinVA]

77. No, you never do

:pals:

[NewWaveChick1981]

71. No.

I have two close relatives who have, though, and thankfully the cops picked them up before they killed themselves or someone else. Don't do it. Go sleep it off and THEN get the cigars if you really, really have to at that point.

[LynneSin]

72. Yes, but many many many many years ago

When I was young and stupid.

Now I prefer being sober when I drive. It's like russion roulette and I'm damn lucky I never got hurt nor have I hurt anyone in the process.

It was very stupid of me to do it

[IndianaJones]

75. once a week at least. nt.