Who has ever driven when they were over the legal alcohol limit?
2007-09-18 09:33:11 · 51 answers · asked by lilmissdisorganised 6 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
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2007-09-18 09:45:38 · update #1
Geordie Lad, it was very nice of you to actually read my question properly before you removed your very rude answer - which stated that I need arresting and my children taking off me for asking this.
Blocked!
2007-09-26 01:59:19 · update #2
Well I haven't drank like that in some number of years when I was much younger...
However to defend myself and others, it has always been my understanding that the legal limit is different for different people and it has a lot to do with your weight and metabolism...
Some folks that are large and overweight, tend to absorb alcohol faster and also rid their body of it faster...
Smaller folks keep it in their system a longer time...
I never knew the legal limit when I was younger, and there was no way to test my own self...
When I did drive after drinking, I never had a wreck or was stopped by police or had any problems...
Maybe I was not that drunk...
I can't just sit and drink and drink and that applies to now as well as when I was younger...
2007-09-19 22:39:59 · answer #1 · answered by aspenkdp2003 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Now that I have committed to your question, I must answer honestly.
Yes, when I was a "real beer drinker" and hangin' out at "whoever's place" or at "whatever bar" with "good friends" and "having the best times of my life."
Looking back, I think I was lucky. But actually about 10,000 other safer drivers were the lucky ones. I would crank it up to 80 or 90mph, thinking I was doin' high speeds like a pro, passing left & right. Ever see one of those after midnight and wished there was a cop around to catch him? That was me for awhile, and I got away with it every time. Not something I'm proud of at all. I'm actually ashamed of myself, but thankful no one EVER got hurt.
I have never confessed this to anyone until your question here & now. After reading some of the stories, I feel like I deserve to do community time helping the youth and elderly for about five whole years of my life! I'd be a better man for it.
Hey.... maybe THIS year there WILL BE a Santa Claus.
Maybe the first Santa was a reformed alcoholic.....
2007-09-18 13:47:57 · answer #2 · answered by Kentucky Dave 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before there was a limit I used to drive after a skin full. I knew several people who were killed through drink driving or crippled. We just did not know any better. Now I observe the law scrupulously. The new problem is speeding.
2007-09-19 06:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by fred35 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh grief - probably - unknowingly, the morning after. I know a guy who lost his license collecting his car from the pub the following lunchtime! He thought he was doing the right thing leaving it that long - he was totally incredulous when he got a positive alcohol reading. It just goes to show - it takes a lot longer than we think to get the alcohol out of our systems.
2007-09-18 09:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess if you had more than 3 drinks you were over the limit automatically? But it depends on the elapsed time over which you had the drinks. If you ran into a tree, you were probably over the limit. The best solution is not to drink and drive or speed and drive. Then you know your good by definition.
2007-09-18 09:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by bobweb 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have and I have ridden with drunks ! Never again it took a really bad car accident to smarten me up . I wasn't driving but I got hurt really bad and I could have been killed by the look of the car. I never saw the car but my Dad did and he describe it to me !! I spent a year in and out of the hospital and now have one leg shorter than the other and I walk with a limp ! Could be worse I could be dead!! The accident was so bad that it was reported that I had died so imagine the look on my friends faces when they saw me ! I wondered why nobody came to see me in the hospital !!
2007-09-18 09:49:12 · answer #6 · answered by Polar Molar 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do get a bit annoyed with some "Holier than thou" people who say "No I never have driven drunk" - because people who drink on a night and work early the following morning are BOUND to be still over the limit - but somehow, their tiny brains are telling them that they are not!! Why dont the Police go after these people on their way to work? Why is it always late-at-night when they stop you???
2007-09-19 02:44:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Once or twice 'the morning after', before I realised that was just as bad! Still managed to crash once due to sheer incompetance while stone cold sober, so just because a person doesn't drink drive, it doesn't necessarily make them a good driver.
Anyone thinking of mounting their high horse needs to remember that!
2007-09-18 09:59:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
to be honest with you i have never considered it because i am one of those guys who go out all hours to clean the roads when the idiots who drink drive kill them selves or kill some one else
seen too much on the uk roads and motorways what drink drivers do they want to bring out a new law get caught drink driven take the bloody licence of them
2007-09-19 10:08:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Last year a little boy that I babysat was playing on the side of the road, and a drunk driver hit him. It was truly the saddest thing I had ever witnessed. He didn't even make it to the hospital.
Which is why I will NEVER drive drunk.
2007-09-18 09:42:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋