How many people here have driven drunk? - Page 3 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

kermitology · 07-23-2009, 04:56 PM

I've driven home then thought to myself.. I don't think I should have driven home.

I don't know if I was drunk, but I would have been pretty close I'm betting.

J pold · 07-23-2009, 04:59 PM

Yes I have, it's not something that I'm proud of. I haven't in years, I really only did it in my high school years.

Peanut · 07-23-2009, 05:00 PM

Nope, I haven't. Most I'll ever have when driving is 1 drink per hour, and I won't drive after more than 2 drinks anyways. Just not worth the risk to me at all.

SteveToms · 07-23-2009, 05:01 PM

A few times when I was younger and stupider, but I have vowed never to again.

Rerun · 07-23-2009, 05:02 PM

You know you were drunk and should not drive when the next morning you don't have a clue where you parked your car the night before (ie which bar, which parking lot, etc) because you did the smart thing and took a cab home.

This has happened to me a couple of times in the past. Called my buddy up the next morning and begged him if he would give me a ride back to my car.... and then the search begins.

Methanolic · 07-23-2009, 05:05 PM

I have.

Worst was about 18 years ago on a mountain bike, from Glenmore Res. to home in (at the time) Sunalta. The next morning I was surprised to see my bike in the apartment because I only remember about 5 seconds of what would have been a 20 min. ride.

I don't drive "drunk" anymore.

I don't drive period after even a few brews.

DOK · 07-23-2009, 05:09 PM

This may sound sarcastic, and I know the answer is a technically mathematical answer, but still. If they say they only catch X number of people who are actually drunk out of X number that are driving drunk, how do they get that second number if they never actually catch them?

This could help support the "what is it really like to feel .08, or .02 or any variance?" question. Maybe I'd answer yes or no depending on my version of what I "think" drinking and driving feels like.

Methanolic · 07-23-2009, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Rerun

I think that if you're "buzzed" you are probably drunk.

As for what is drunk.... I figure that if you were driving along after drinking and you get pulled over in a check stop and you're getting nervous before talking to the cop, you are probably drunk.... or close to it..... or else you wouldn't be nervous.

When you have to drive with one eye closed, you're drunk. The one eye closed method I've experienced, but not behind the wheel, Only attempting to walk home. I have heard of many people talking about driving so drunk that the "one eye" method had to be used.

metallicat · 07-23-2009, 05:11 PM

Twice when I have been borderline. Never when completely falling over drunk.

There are no excuses for my behaviour, I regret it more than I can convey.

krazycanuck · 07-23-2009, 05:11 PM

my friend has a breathalyzer, we've gotten drunk and tested it before. 0.08 is more drunk than I would have thought. 0.04 is where I'd draw the line drinking. Point is...if you're driving at 0.08 or above...you know you're too drunk to drive.

and no, I haven't.

valo403 · 07-23-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

That is hilarious! I had no clue. I thought you were sniping me.

Too funny. I would imagine 4 beers in 2 hours would get you closer than you think it would.

I'm on that end of the scale and there's no way I'd drive now after 4 beers in 2 hours.

Well it's 4 cans of light American beer at the most, and it's generally going to be 3 hours if I'm having 4. I lived in a college town with cops everywhere, I wasn't taking any chances.

604flames · 07-23-2009, 05:13 PM

I got stopped at a roadblock on the Second Narrows once on the way home from hockey. I'd had a couple in the dressing room after the game and told the cop that honestly...

...fast forward to him telling me that if I'd blown a fraction higher I would have gotten a suspension. I felt so dumb, but also lucky at the same time.

jayswin · 07-23-2009, 05:19 PM

There was one time when my boss and I had been drinking all night. We were both going to drive from Okotoks back to Calgary. He left the parking lot, but I felt drunker than I thought I was when I got up to go to my car. I also had a bad feeling for some reason, so I stayed behind.

It turns out he was driving down the highway, and a cop started tailing him (apparantly they do this to anyone who drives on that one highway that leads into okotoks between 2am and 5am). Anyways, it sucks for him, because he tought it was me behind him, and that I was just trying to be funny by tailing him, so he started swerving back and forth and slamming on the brakes to try and get me back. Needless to say, that didn't end up to well for him.

Dion · 07-23-2009, 05:19 PM

I have never driven drunk. The message was driven home early in my teens when a family we knew lost thier daughter who was killed by a drunk driver.

tvp2003 · 07-23-2009, 05:20 PM

Nope.

By the way, thanks for not killing me or my family on the roads you effing fatas (should that have been in green?!?)

flip · 07-23-2009, 05:25 PM

I'm drunk right now and posting from my blackberry while driving!

Igottago · 07-23-2009, 05:26 PM

A few times when I was younger and lived in Calgary. I remember one time getting stopped at a checkstop..I definitely shouldn't have been driving..but I guess the cop didn't smell any on me and thought I looked pretty composed, he let me go through. I got away with one there, and it scared some sense into me for good.

Now that I live in Vancouver I don't drive and always take cabs downtown, etc, so I don't have the chance to do anything stupid like that. But even when I'm back in Calgary and have access to a car I am good about making sure I have a place to stay for the night, or finding another way home and picking up the car the next day. I even get dropped off by my parents sometimes if I know I'm going to drink, which is slightly embarrassing, but hey, that way I won't be driving anywhere that night. Plus its sometimes an adventure trying to figure out where to go or how to get home after getting tanked. No more drinking and driving ever though.

alltherage · 07-23-2009, 05:26 PM

There is absolutely zero justification for driving drunk.

Having said that, I made a mistake once. I had some friends over while I was house sitting my girlfriend's while her family was in Vancouver for Christmas. We were all drinking and playing card drinking games etc. Around 1am people left, safely with a sober driver, but my GF's friend stayed behind for some reason. We were friends and we just chatted for a while.

Out of nowhere she asks me if I have feelings for her, and started acting all... flirty and drunk. I had to get her out of that house, and I couldn't let her walk home. It was only a few blocks... so I drove. I'm not proud of that.

Suzles · 07-23-2009, 05:32 PM

Never. I was always (and I still am) the designated driver for friends and family.

jayswin · 07-23-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Suzles

Never. I was always (and I still am) the designated driver for friends and family.

I don't understand, how do you get sh*tfaced when you're always the DD?