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>Other than not going out, or not getting home, you didn't have many options. I don't understand. Of course you do! Just go out and don't drink...! When I gre
by cmarschner 10y ago
>Other than not going out, or not getting home, you didn't have many options.
I don't understand. Of course you do! Just go out and don't drink...!
When I grew up we would just take turns. A car seats 5, so you would be the driver every 5 times. That's not too bad...
You could still have a beer or two, or just have a sober evening and the next day without a hang-over.
Also, everyone knew the formula by which blood alcohol gets reduced over time, and how much alcohol would be in a glass of beer. At one rare event when I knew I would have pretty much maxed out my quota I once got in a police control and got tested at night. It was very accurate... I missed the limit by 0.02 per mill. I played a bit safer from then on, though. The limit in our area is at 0.5 per mill, but if you had an accident with over 0.2 you might already get in trouble with insurance coverage. Apart from the fact that of course the risk of having an accident goes up and can destroy lives.
- mjevans 10y agoI envy you for not being able to count your friends on a single hand.
- swozey 10y agoAnd that as a grown adult his/her friends all live in the same general area so that one person can drop everyone off. That'd be absolutely ludicrous here in Austin. Everyone lives in the opposite 30 minute direction. I don't even ask where people live anymore because there's almost no chance they live within 30 minutes (10 miles) of me and I'm central so I'll probably never visit them. The nights I can plan for a sober driver vs using a TNC are few and far between and usually on the weekend when one of my friends husbands or wives doesn't mind being the DD. This doesn't help during happy hour, etc at all. Uber/Lyft/TNCs made going out far less anxiety ridden ("will I even be able to get a cab? When do the buses stop?")