Drinking and Driving

[zulu]

(Stolen from another forum)


I would like to share an experience with you, about drinking and driving.

In the past, I have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on my way home from the odd social session over the years.

Last night, I was out for a few drinks with some co-workers and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before: I took a bus home.

Sure enough, I passed a police road block along the way, but since it was a bus, they waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got this one.

 

[fronobulax]

:lol: :lol:

 

[JerryR]

When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my pa......

....unlike his passengers, who died screaming :shock:

 

[learnintoplay62]

to funny, 2 funny :lol:

 

[CA-35]

Great story.

As one who can speak from experience, DUI's are no fun. I recvd my one and only 12 years ago. What do you think I enjoyed the most?
1. 24 hours in jail
2. $2500.00 on an attorney
3. 6 months loss of Drivers license.
4. a 16 hour driving class
5. Paid higher insurance premiums for 5 years thereafter.

The moral of the story is: If you must drink dont drive, and if you must drive dont drink.

 

[fearless]

I drank and drove in '82. Well I rode actually, which is even harder with element of imbalance subtracting further from safety. I was never prosecuted but here's what I enjoyed least:

1. The pain of vomiting on my back with a fractured femur, pelvis, ribs, elbow and foot. (I managed to spew up the leg of the surgeon who was to save my life)
2. The agony of being lifted in a sheet onto an X-ray table with multiple fractures and internal bleeding.
3. Fighting against crushing pain to inhale with collapsed lungs before I was intubated and put into an induced coma.
4. Post-op pain and the last of the strictly-enforced four hours between morphine injections.
5. My first crap after two weeks. Bedpans in general. Having a catheter removed.
6. Exhaustion and greying pain after my first walking lap of the hospital bed. Many weeks on crutches.
7. The haematoma and infection a year later when the 11 inch titanium plate and screws were removed a year later.
8. 30 years later, arthritis.

Some humbling aspects too:
1. My surgeon's experience with high impact Vietnam war injuries was the reason my left foot wasn't amputated. The before and after X-rays are amazing. Love him.
2. Talking with a nurse who said she'd been bummed out weeks earlier, sure that I was going to die on her shift and thinking what a shame.(I had only just started the transformation form fit to puny). Love her.
3. Knowing that my parents lived through me being given the Last Sacrament when it was thought I wouldn't make it. Love them.
4. Bearing witness to the trials and triumphs of the brave patients I shared a ward with. Loved them too.

My experience all those years ago is nothing compared to a bass playing friend of mine who lost his 18 year old daughter to a drink driver.

I'm a party-pooper But I do think it is important to realise the importance of being close to the top of our game when piloting a wheeled thing. Crashing them can be really bad!

My apologies for bring a doom vibe to a fun thread. It's a good joke Maybe I just needed to tell the story. :roll:
Ludicrously I had a similar accident 10 years later, worse in many ways that had nothing to do with drinking. These days I have a relaxed attitude and I'll drive if I'm close to the limit, but very carefully, and only if I can't really feel it. But we owe it to ourselves and others to exercise good judgement and recognise that the more we drink, the more we need to question our ability to judge our ability to drive.
Anyway, I mostly drink at home now :lol:

 

[killdeer43]

Great post, fearless. Well placed, too!
BTW, I really like your signature. Very entertaining. :wink:

Joe

 

[adorshki]

My apologies for bring a doom vibe to a fun thread. It's a good joke Maybe I just needed to tell the story. :roll:

It was a tough job and I'm glad two other guys did it, and very well at that. :wink:
I think the joke probably made a lot of us wince in self-recognition, after the punchline kicked it off.
I got lucky once as a callow youth, all I did was lean out the window to spit and swerved just as a cop was passing in the other direction. I say lucky 'cause I learned young and nobody got hurt. :wink:

 

[zulu]

Well, jokes like this can be funny but at the same time make light of serious issues. In retrospect I realize that jokes about drunk driving could possibly offend those who have suffered a tragedy. For that I apologize, I'm certainly not insensitive to that.

While I still think this monologue is worth a chuckle, I don't regret for a moment the fact that it brought up these sobering responses. Thanks.

 

[killdeer43]

Well, jokes like this can be funny but at the same time make light of serious issues. In retrospect I realize that jokes about drunk driving could possibly offend those who have suffered a tragedy. For that I apologize, I'm certainly not insensitive to that.

While I still think this monologue is worth a chuckle, I don't regret for a moment the fact that it brought up these sobering responses. Thanks.

Works for me.

Joe

 

[taabru45]

Well, jokes like this can be funny but at the same time make light of serious issues. In retrospect I realize that jokes about drunk driving could possibly offend those who have suffered a tragedy. For that I apologize, I'm certainly not insensitive to that.

While I still think this monologue is worth a chuckle, I don't regret for a moment the fact that it brought up these sobering responses. Thanks.

Works for me.

Joe

+1

 

[Dr. Spivey]

Well, jokes like this can be funny but at the same time make light of serious issues. In retrospect I realize that jokes about drunk driving could possibly offend those who have suffered a tragedy. For that I apologize, I'm certainly not insensitive to that.

While I still think this monologue is worth a chuckle, I don't regret for a moment the fact that it brought up these sobering responses. Thanks.

Yep. Wisconsin is the drunk driving capitol of the U.S. Don't even get me started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e0W_G4V83w

 

[fearless]

Well, jokes like this can be funny but at the same time make light of serious issues. In retrospect I realize that jokes about drunk driving could possibly offend those who have suffered a tragedy. For that I apologize, I'm certainly not insensitive to that.

While I still think this monologue is worth a chuckle, I don't regret for a moment the fact that it brought up these sobering responses. Thanks.

Well put, Zulu. Thanks for the story which I will certainly be re-telling! :wink: