I went out last night with friends, got drunk don’t remember how I got home. My car is in the driveway, did I drive five miles home, drunk?? Please tell me someone drove me home if not I need to be arrested for drunk driving!! This is most horrible thing I have ever done.
i’d say relax. You might have made it safe, without hitting anyone this time. Take it as a wake up call, maybe you need to lay off the drinking.
I had a friend who started giving up heavy drug use in the late 60’s in California when he drove home, 20 miles, from a movie, after quite a few hits of acid. He woke up the next day, and hadn’t killed anyone. That woke him up.
shrug don’t mean to preach, sorry.
Didja check for funny-shaped dents in the front bumper?
Take this as a lesson from God that you shouldn’t ever do that again.
Yeah, or dents shaped like faces?
Just kidding, you did something minorly wrong. I wouldn’t worry about.
I met a guy at one of my brother’s AA meetings who told me he went out to his garage one morning and found a dress tangled up in his front bumper. That has stayed with me.
If I’m going to meet friends out and about and drink a lot, I just plan on a cab ahead of time. Even if you don’t whack someone, a DWI is quite expensive, and forever.
MINORLY wrong? What planet are you on?
Nanno, please, for the love of God, don’t EVER do this again. We don’t need another dead Doper. Or one with somebody else’s death on their conscience.
It is good that you are disturbed about it. I know people who do this all the time and never give it a second thought.
My friend Peter was killed by a drunk driver last year, at the age of 23, two days after his baby sister was born. So forgive me if I am taking this a bit seriously.
Please, please, please. Leave the car at home next time.
:eek: 
Are we safe in assuming you think it’s major if you see blood and gore splattered all over the car? God, I’d hope so.
Well, since you asked… No, nevermind.
Look, drinking and driving is a horrible thing to do. Yes. But it would be dumb for her to feel guilty about it because there’s nothing to feel guilty about. No one got hurt. And she can’t pretend that she’s responsible. Being drunk is the absolute opposite of being responsible. So long as she realizes that someone could have been hurt, then the experience made her a better person.
Nuff said.
Risking your life and the lives of anyone you encounter is nothing to feel guilty about? Forget what planet, what UNIVERSE do you live in?
Thank God the law (and most people with some measure of intelligence) sees things definitely. “Not guilty of drunk driving by reason of being drunk”, now there’s a concept.
:wally
FreakFreely’s Self Improvement Course: Day 1 - drive drunk.
I am going to shut up now because I will need to be banished to the Pit if I say the rest of what I want to say to you.
Did I say she had no reason to feel guilty? No. I said she shouldn’t feel guilty if she can help it.
Would you rather I condemn her? You first.
Did I ever mention the law? No.
I’m talking about how she should feel. I’m trying to console her and help see the bright side of it. I’m not talking about whether or not she should/could be charged. I’m just talking about her personal outlook.
Obviously, drunk driving should be illegal. But I don’t think someone who drives drunk once should feel guilty about it, they weren’t themselves (alcohol is the worst goddamn drug in the US). Instead they should learn from it and move on. There’s no point to feeling guilty about it.
C’mon ruadh. That was beneath you. I’m just saying that if nobody got hurt and she learned from it, then it was for the better. Stop twisting my words, ya mook.
Alright first off, Nanno, I’m not beating up on you. You made a dumb mistake, and you seem to be aware of that. Hopefully you have learned your lesson and won’t do it again.
But, I simply can’t agree that being drunk somehow lets you off the hook for doing this. After all, FF, it was Nanno’s decision to drink, and drink, and drink, even knowing that she had a car to drive home. Unless someone slipped her a mickey she is responsible, both legally and morally.
Sorry but I completely fail to see how it could possibly be for the better to have driven drunk, not hurt anyone, and learned from it, than not to have driven drunk in the first place.
Nanno can’t change the fact that she drove drunk and I do applaud her recognition that she made a terrible mistake. But I refuse to minimize it.
Dont ever get so drunk that you cant remember chunks of time. You could wake up with a tatoo, an unwanted pregnancy, or AIDS.
Just because the car isnt wrecked, doesnt mean that she didnt force another car to swerve out of her way. All it means is that she didnt HIT anyone. If you drink, plan ahead. If you are going on a major bender, the kind you cant remember, please, drink with a buddy you can trust to protect you.
If I was you I would be worried about what else I did last night.
SO dont get killed, because I dont think Techie will ever do another banner. And we hope she never has to.
Handcuffs.
Sorry, I’m not making much sense. She is responsible for the decision to drink. She isn’t responsible for the decision to drive. Because, and this is the awful thing about alcohol, when you drink it you are no longer in control of yourself. Of course the law should punish people who drive drunk. Just like they should punish people who kill when they’re drunk. Not so they don’t kill again, but so they don’t drink again. Cuz some peoples can handle it and, some peoples can’t. In her case, she should probably just be sure she has a ride home when she gets drunk.
WARNING, MUFFIN LOGIC FOLLOWS\Okay, because she did drive drunk, than we know she was going to do it sooner or later. And therefor, it’s a good thing that nobody got hurt and she learned her lesson. Because it was going to happen anyway. We should just be glad that it happened the way it did. /MUFFIN LOGIC
Yeah, it’s weird, but that’s the way I think.
If she can’t change it, and she did learn her lesson, then why not minimize it? It brings needless pain.
Needless pain is seeing your friend’s body laid out in a coffin (put there by someone who apparently thought driving drunk was only “minorly wrong” til that point). Whatever pain Nanno may be feeling from reading my words has nothing on that … and if it helps to keep her from driving drunk again, it sure isn’t “needless”.
Now you’re being deliberately mean. I would never drive drunk, it’s an incredibly stupid act. I’m saying that after the fact, after the deed’s been done and no one was hurt, it’s minorly wrong. Incredibly stupid. Incredibly inconsiderate. But not evil.
You should be ashamed of yourself. You don’t take care of a blister with a blowtorch.
And if it did help to keep her from driving drunk, then it would be a good thing. I just don’t think it will help her. You saw her post, she’s obviously not going to do it again.
A person is ALWAYS responsible for their actions. ESPECIALLY if these actions are because of a ‘responsible’ decision made prior.
No, I’m just being honest.
That’s your word, not mine.
If you didn’t notice, [pitworddeleted] I was rather gentle with her in my first post. It was only after you downplayed its significance that I got out the blowtorch… and it’s aimed more at you than at her.
I hope not. If people keep telling her it wasn’t a big deal, though, she might start to believe it. After all, nobody got hurt, right? :rolleyes: