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If you drank this much alcohol... would you drive tomorrow?

207 replies

FuckingNoise · 02/06/2022 12:53

16.4 units (lager)... starting 1pm finishing probably 7pm. Driving tomorrow 11am...

OP posts:
jubileetrain · 04/06/2022 07:44

NashvilleQueen · 04/06/2022 07:20

It's not our fault you drank less and finishes earlier than your OP stated. Nice drip feed

Churlish response. There were people on here saying they wouldn't drive for 24 hours. That's not the responsible behaviour they think it is. It's pious nonsense.

I never drove the day after drinking, not sure why that isn't responsible? I realise it's not necessary and there is a point the next day at which you can drive, but there is nothing wrong with making the choice not to.

CornishPorsche · 04/06/2022 09:03

Agree, it's not pious when I've been out on the piss to refuse to drive the next day.

Getting behind the wheel of a car when you're not sure of your alcohol levels is insane. If I need to drive, I don't drink. If I'm drinking, I don't drive.

I'm very black and white on this subject. Not through being pious, but through being an ex copper who has dealt with the deaths, injuries, crashes, sadness caused by drink driving.

And EVERY SINGLE drink driver I've ever arrested or ever dealt with in custody (I was intoximeter trained) "only had two drinks". All of them, without exception. Even the ones who should have been dead from alcohol poisoning. Even the ones who were still drunk the morning after they stopped drinking. Even the ones who "only had two pints three days ago".

And every one of them had the cash on their person to get a taxi for the journey they claimed to be making (ie home from the pub etc).

Utter disgraces, the lot of them.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 04/06/2022 11:48

It isn’t pious nonsense. Granted it is personal choice but there is nothing pious about being responsible for your own actions and choosing not to drive. Back in the day I didn’t drive for 24-36 hours after a night out. It would be the same now if I went out.

If I knew I had to drive I didn’t drink. If I knew I was working I didn’t drink as there was a chance I’d be armed.

I don’t drink much these days. Probably the equivalent of 6 pints in a year on average. I don’t know if I process things differently now I’m older but I don’t feel great the next morning. I wouldn’t want to drive if I wasn’t on top form. I couldn’t do my job if impaired.

I also am subject to being tested. If I tested positive for anything, I wouldn’t have a job. No arguments/justification. Jotters.

If that is pious, then hell mend ye.

tigger1001 · 04/06/2022 15:45

NashvilleQueen · 04/06/2022 07:20

It's not our fault you drank less and finishes earlier than your OP stated. Nice drip feed

Churlish response. There were people on here saying they wouldn't drive for 24 hours. That's not the responsible behaviour they think it is. It's pious nonsense.

It is responsible behaviour though.

Not getting behind the wheel when you have no idea if you are over the limit is idiotic at best and dangerous at worst.

I would rather either be cautious and not drive the next day or not drink if I need to drive.

Drink driving ruins lives. I don't want to be responsible for that. So I don't drink drive.

NashvilleQueen · 05/06/2022 09:48

It isn't responsible behaviour because there is absolutely no risk you're still over the limit at 11am (on the quantity and time period the OP was talking about).

You may have drunk differently or later than the question posted. You may have felt sick or tired with a hangover and so choose not to drive. But what the OP wouldn't have been is over the limit for driving and no sense in guilt tripping her into not drinking or not driving.

Even on 5 pints she was clear something like 10 hours before she actually needed to drive. Why are your actions more responsible than hers?

tigger1001 · 05/06/2022 10:46

The op's question was would you drink 16 units of alcohol and drive the next day. My answer is no. Because I would want to be completely sure I was capable of driving safely.

If I was planning a session like that, I would ensure I didn't need to drive the next day. It's hardly rocket science.

If you disagree that's not responsible, then you and I have different views on what's responsible.

Sadly have seen peoples lives ruined by them assuming they were safe to drive the next day and they were wrong. the knowledge that they killed somebody. A lifetime of wishing they had not got behind the wheel of a car that morning. It's just not worth it.

The op said in a later post she was worried about being banned, but not worried about hurting someone. Therefore she was thinking she would be over the limit and was still willing to risk it. That's not responsible behaviour.

jubileetrain · 05/06/2022 10:48

NashvilleQueen · 05/06/2022 09:48

It isn't responsible behaviour because there is absolutely no risk you're still over the limit at 11am (on the quantity and time period the OP was talking about).

You may have drunk differently or later than the question posted. You may have felt sick or tired with a hangover and so choose not to drive. But what the OP wouldn't have been is over the limit for driving and no sense in guilt tripping her into not drinking or not driving.

Even on 5 pints she was clear something like 10 hours before she actually needed to drive. Why are your actions more responsible than hers?

How is it not responsible to make the choice not to drive the next day?

I feel that you are confusing the words 'responsible' and 'necessary'

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