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We have all been there, at the bar drinking knowing damn well you have to drive home, wondering am I at my limit? I just celebrated my 35th birthday, drove to the bar had 8 shots (my maintain limit and still be able to drive is 8 drinks) and drove home with out incident!!
Eight shots? Hmmm, this thread is certain to be popular. Sometimes I've drank two beers and driven home, and even though i wait a while before driving, I still have found it's generally a bad idea.
If you get stopped in most states .08 means you're not going home, you're going to jail.
and say bye bye to your vehicle. Hope your post was an attempt at trying to make a point
A quick way to check this is to do the math. You can even find calculators online.
I assumed a 4 hour period, weight of 170, 1.5 oz shots of whiskey, and got BAC of .21. I also assumed female.
I now assume dumbass, or maybe you're just trolling on a Friday night.
EDIT: just saw flabby's post- I used http://www.healthstatus.com/calculat...bac-calculator for this. I need to run a few other calculators to check this out.
Tuck $50 in your sock before you go out boozing and use it to take a cab home. Someone can take you to get your car the next morning. My DUI in upstate New York 12 years ago cost me my driving privileges for three months and $900 in court costs and that was BEFORE Adolph Bloomberg ran things. Today, you can lose your car, your job and every penny you have squirreled away. Forget drunk, if you drive buzzed consider your life over being the best scenario. The worst is a van full of kids dead because you are an asshole the worst scenario.
By the way, Erika, you're 35 and still celebrating your birthday by doing shots? You're a fucking loser.
I did heroin everyday with driving for years.
I'm sure that accounts for your life being precisely where you always dreamed it would be at this time during your life.
I drink a lot. So I don't drive.
I use public transportation. I'm not saying "when I know I'll drink", because every opportunity is good to have a drink, as far as I'm concerned. I'm like your good old silver screen characters, like Boogey and Cary Grant (who says in North by Northwest: "Hey! I can't stop drinking! I have a couple barmen who counts on me to make a living!") :)
And with all that, I save the environment. After that they'll still say I'm politically incorrect...
Guys, would you please go easy on Erika! She's a long time member and a good lady!
We can talk without resolving to harshness, can't we, friends?
God forbid anyone has a good time on their birthday... Asshole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy W
eight shots is a lot to be behind the wheel baby :) no judgement here everyone's gotta live their lives as they see fit - My history - I gotta DUI way back in 1991 after my Mom and Dad died - changed my life - became friends with and still keep in touch with the state trooper who may have save my life and others lives by nailing me that night. I went on to have a great life - still having it in fact:) be well
I do it from time to time.
I usually try to space my drinks.
You're no fun. I'm 43 and while I can't guarantee I'm going to do shots on my 44th birthday, it's certainly not out of the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy W
As for the original question, I'd say my limit is 3 drinks unless I'm spending a looonng time at the bar to spread the drinks out over.
With food I might take one beer (max alc. % 4-5, max amount 0.5l) or glass of wine and drive after that.
Otherwise I use Taxi.
Drinking and driving is something soo stupid thing to do. Your not playing damage to yourself more like other's life.
I hope everyone who does this goes to jail and loses their car !
And hey, how much U' like to trans woman to be woman, but with alcohol U need to use men's scale:
http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/att...1&d=1405131267
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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
I've got enough baggage, i don't need to be carrying around more stupid shit! :shrug
btw, nice to see you back, Dan. :cheers:
8 shots? Whether you think you're fit to drive is irrelevant, your driving abilities are undoubtably impaired. Let's hope you either grow up and get a ride/taxi, or hit a tree and kill yourself on your drunken way home one night ... before you kill someone else because of your nonchalence.
Before anyone cries "Let's all be nice to her" - fuck that, tell that to the victims of someone she may hit.
Erika you're an arsehole.
Sorry. No respect at all to anyone who drinks and drives. Especially after known some people who have been killed by drink drivers or have drunk and drived.
Most countries in the world, seriously punish people who do it. Also understand the USA, does it particular so.
No matter how good of driver you are, drinking will impair you. Before you hurt someone or yourself, get a criminal recorded/ DUI's or worse . Stop and get a taxi/ public transport instead.
Thanks, Jericho! Nice to be back with friends like you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
Steven, for Christ's sake, we got that part, didn't we? There's no need for "arsery", to use your adjective. There are ways to deliver, aren't there? And frankly, friend, yours are not always of the greatest refinement, if you allow me to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by GroobySteven
Fuck it, Burn the witch! :shrug
Something tells me our Erika would appreciate a spanking. But then after, she might take your head off... :(
"I want to show everyone what a selfish idiot I am, and will enjoy seeing the varied responses from fellow idiots, or those who feel well placed to challenge and dispise my selfishness"
I have to admit that I am a functional alcoholic and drink every day. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about my family and friends and what I have done wrong by them. Because I drink every day and live in a rural community I end up driving under the influence almost every day.
Btw, Erika, happy 35th anniversary! Take care of yourself, and be prudent. If you can't do otherwise, rather drink at home. Be safe and happy.
<3 :kiss:
Thank you Dan you're a gentlemanQuote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Dan the Gentle-Man!!! Happy middle age crisis Erika!!!!
Good to check a few internet charts and see exactly where you weigh in, thanks flabby.
Back in my day it was 1.0 and the cops would give you a break, especially if you could say your ABCs without singing them. I got three DWIs and I beat one because I knew a guy at the place they sent blood to be analyzed. But the next time I tried to do that, they wouldn't let me. Twice the cops were sitting right across the street from the bar. They were on my tail as soon as I pulled out of the parking lot.
A HUGE part of my cavaliering SUPERSTUD days involved me drinking, smoking, and driving miles and miles to where the action was. Even with all the trouble I got into, it was fun.
But not too smart.
bwahahaha. good one :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy W
I don't understand what the number of shots or the amount of alcohol a person consumes on their birthday has to do with them being a loser?
By that logic someone that pays their bills, helps out in the community, holds a higher education and is a stand up person that everyone likes is a loser because once a year they enjoy over indulging and celebrating their birthday?
Must feel good to look down on anyone that drinks shots. I guess you shouldn't drink to much you could fall off your high horse.
Happy birthday Erika
Made that mistake once in my life, went bar hopping by myself. To be honest, I really do not remember how I got home. Scariest feeling in the world, I must have checked the car five times over to make sure there was no look of an accident - dents, scratches or even blood. Swore never to do that again...and never have for the past 20+ years.
Love you too Steve........Quote:
Originally Posted by GroobySteven
A van full of kids........lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy W
A van full of kids ......lol - pretty much sums you up.
I'm sure we can all be understanding if someone has a substance abuse or alcohol problem but putting other people's lives at risk like that on a routine basis is downright depraved. It's also different from doing it once as the result of bad planning or impulse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
If one day you end up hurting someone badly, you'll know you had time to think about it and simply didn't care.
I worked with a guy in AA, he had tons of funny stories about his boozing days, ....he wasn't a very good worker, but when he sponsored somebody and got THE CALL, man, he got it in gear, it was something to see.
I was ran over in Nov by a 3x drunk driver on my new Harley. It was his third time DUI and then he drove off. He was in a big SUV and TBoned me. He was on probation for his second one. 11 broken bones, two dislocated toes, 6 pins in my foot, an operation and 6 days in the hospital you know I was laughing. He was two times over the legal limit. So now he facing two felony charges and one is accident with injury/death fail to stop and render aid. So when you say you friend has a lot of funny stories well they are not to funny. YOU flying 35 feet in the air because of some ass could care less about anyone and drinks himself stupid and see how funny those stories are. I am sure the guy that hit me has lots of funny stories being arrested twice, wearing a scam bracket, two felony charges, violation of probation, and jail time. Lots of laughs.
One drink is two many when you get behind the wheel!
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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Well I'm sure you're happy that you're supporting this fuckwit with your joviality and condoning what she's saying? I get what you state on the site about not chasing the girls away, but you can't be blind enough (or "refined enough") to see that some girls need to be told to fuck off? Erika has been attention seeking here since his (at the time) first post and anyone who states they'd drink this much and drive, deserves to be labeled an arsehole, whether girl, boy or Erika.
I have no compunction in stating, that I'd much rather hear that she'd decided to change her ways, than continuing to drink "8 shots" and drive. If she doesn't, then I'd rather see her dead. This is the person that made fun out of a comment that she could crash into kids.
I don't disagree with you, Steven, but I thought that the message had already passed and was loud and clear. I thought useless to add to it and especially in tough terms, to say the least.
I do not condone such behavior as I stated myself on this thread.
I don't want to start one more of those ridiculous bickering episodes which have been so common on the site, arguments which leads no where and keeps going and going out of egotism. But on another note, understanding that you lead a business, most probably a tough one, and that this site is part of it, I still don't always understand why you feel so irritated by people who are "seeking attention". Members exchange, they bond, they feel empathy, it seems normal that they will often confide in others in here. And in Erika's specific case, you know the stuff she's been through -I'm talking in general because in some cases, you have been right, of course.
As to the "refinement", once again, you usually show the stiff decision of a businessman and the way he deals with many people. But on the other hand, it seems to me we shouldn't encourage excesses in expression, as there is a lot of it around, and it only encourages people who are not as discerning as yourself to keep on making the atmosphere often difficult to breathe around here. I'm not trying to dictate your conduct, of course; you are our host and you obviously know what you're doing -and you know I think so, as I've expressed it before.
So all in all, that was the point I was trying to make, maybe not expressed in the most articulate way possible, I'll admit it.
I remember when I used to cop, about 35 minute drive on the freeway, id be snorting heroin, popping valium, maybe a gram of coke here and there, crazy, but i remember a few times with a few added soma's, id pull up to the curb, and fuck my rim up on it, plus the times i drove blacked out on ambien, i remember off meth i rear ended somebody on the 101 freeway, or the time i ran from the cops high on meth, and got sent to prison, good times.
I lived a wild life, everyday not unlike what you're describing, Pimpdog. I used to take a cab everywhere. These guys all knew me and loved me! They were making a living off me! :)
It's just a matter of prudence and carefullness. Even completely fucked up, it's possible!
Then again, I saw someone very close to me drink and drive for years and years, at a time when people didn't make that much of it. You would spend a night in a cell, have your car towed. The police would sometimes drive you home! A time when cars were so solid and heavy evey passenger would be killed in an accident and the car would hardly be scratched. A time when people drove on the highway at 100 miles an hour with 2 or 3 kids playing in the back seat, without any seat belt, jumping and wrestling. The balance between the sense of freedom, the rights to individual freedom and the social responsability of anyone was very different, back then.