# Do you drink and drive? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977 "2011-11-15T04:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/1 "2011-11-15T04:28:09Z")
Well do you? Poll to follow. If you’re willing to admit you do (the poll is anonymous), under what circumstances will you and won’t you do it? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/2 "2011-11-15T04:37:42Z")
I will have one or two beers or cocktails over a 2-3 hour period then drive, but nothing more than that. Since you don’t define drinking and driving as driving while intoxicated, then yes, I do. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/3 "2011-11-15T04:39:49Z")
Not since I was a stupid teenager. Now I’m rather anal about it. Booze and driving just don’t cross with me. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/4 "2011-11-15T04:39:50Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > I will have one or two beers or cocktails over a 2-3 hour period then drive, but nothing more than that. Since you don’t define drinking and driving as driving while intoxicated, then yes, I do. This. I will have one or two, with food because I don’t just go out drinking- this is always over dinner or at a party with food, over the course of 2 to 3 hours, and still feel comfortable driving. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/5 "2011-11-15T04:46:53Z")
As a teenager and young adult in West Texas, hell yeah! I’ve grown up since then though. Back then, it was considered a right, and the cops were very lenient. I doubt I’d get away with half as much stuff as a teenager now as I did back then. Times have changed, and often for the better. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/6 "2011-11-15T04:51:33Z")
Never. Never, never, never. Two classmates in high school died in drunk driving accidents, and my 6-year-old cousin was hit by a drunk driver while he was waiting for his school bus in front of his house, with his mom watching. So, no. And I’m very judge judgy with people who do, and I don’t apologize for it. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/7 "2011-11-15T04:51:41Z")
I don’t drink. If I did – no, never, ever, ever. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/8 "2011-11-15T04:59:53Z")
A couple of times in rural Ireland (it was pretty much de rigeur where I lived) and a couple of times in Dublin, once during the taxi strike. Fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/9 "2011-11-15T05:00:48Z")
I’m so paranoid about driving after drinking, that I won’t even do it if all I’ve had is one cocktail with dinner. I’ll just let the husband take the wheel, then I can have two! ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/10 "2011-11-15T05:04:17Z")
No. Not at all. One drink = someone else is driving. Period. [There are good reasons for this](http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/understanding-08.html). I’m in favor of lowering the BAC levels, too. If we can’t text and drive (or phone and drive), why wine and drive? Oh, and hey, don’t drive while you are hungover. Same thing. ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/11 "2011-11-15T05:15:35Z")
I have in the past but will never do so again. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/12 "2011-11-15T05:20:51Z")
I don’t drink _or_ drive. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/13 "2011-11-15T05:21:46Z")
What does ‘drink’ mean? Do you mean drink enough alcohol to be over the legal limit? Or simply drink any alcohol at all? ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/14 "2011-11-15T06:46:16Z")
I don’t mind a beer or two before driving - so long as I’m under the limit. I have driven smashed before - and it’s rather scary. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/15 "2011-11-15T07:29:34Z")
I find driving when I’m completely sober to be terrifying, so I doubt adding alcohol to the mix (hee) would make me feel any safer. When I was a tyke and would visit my father in a nearby town, he would often drive me and my siblings home after he spent the whole day drinking at the local tavern. While the younger kids slept in the back seat, I had to remain absolutely vigilant in the front passenger seat so I could nudge my dad awake when he dozed and crossed the center line or wandered toward the ditch. I was all of 8 years old. Even after more than 40 years, that’s _still_ one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced. The memory of it is enough to keep me from taking the wheel when I’m in any way impaired. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/16 "2011-11-15T07:40:04Z")
I won’t even do the “I can have one beer” thing. That just makes me want to have a second beer and then I get grumpy because I can’t. So no, I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/17 "2011-11-15T07:40:39Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > What does ‘drink’ mean? Do you mean drink enough alcohol to be over the legal limit? Or simply drink any alcohol at all? I was going to ask this as well. I think it makes a HUGE difference in the meaning of the question and the significance of the answers. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/18 "2011-11-15T07:45:52Z")
Last Friday night I had a single (1/2 liter) glass of beer at a party. That’s my ultimate limit, and more than I usually drink when I’m driving. I have no problem of self-control when it comes to alcohol. Food, yes, but not booze. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/19 "2011-11-15T07:55:09Z")
I don’t drink alcohol at all these days but when I was younger and stupider, I’d drive after a few too many. Not often, but I’m not proud of having done so at all. I was very lucky not to have caused an accident. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977/20 "2011-11-15T08:23:33Z")
I go to the club most Fridays with guys from work. I have one real beer and one light beer and then drive home. I have been breath tested several times without any problems. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-drink-and-drive/602977.md?page=2)