To not want DH to drive the morning after a drinking session

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DH agrees to drive the children to football for an away game at 9am on a Saturday but goes out until 12.45am on Friday night and admits to having 8 pints. AIBU to be angry and to have to change all the plans for the day to drive DS as I don't feel he can drive? He said he would do it and was ok but he looked like crap and I just felt I couldn't sit back and let him drive. My other plans had to be cancelled at very short notice and I had specifically asked DH not to drink a lot as he had made these plans. I just feel let down and that he has no concern for safety or the law.

YANBU.
Up here (Scotland) he would be over the limit if breathalysied. We have cut our limit this year.

And he would be automatically be banned from drivingfor a year if he was over the limit.

Yes. We are not in Scotland but I feel he must have been over the limit. 8 pints is ridiculous when he went out with 1 friend to watch football

I'm pretty sure he would still be over the limit at that time in the morning.

8 pints is pretty excessive.

My stepdad works for a big uk bus company. He was a boss amd they did on the spot breathaliser tests to their drivers of a morning. When my sis and I were teens and had been for a night out he used to do it to us the next morn. (To our amusement, not in a controlling wat!) I don't drink much but my sis used to be over the limit a few times and she might have only had 3-4 vodka & cokes!

Yanbu in any way, shape or form.

So what are you going to do then, OP?

I thought it was an hour a pint to clear it from your system? Assuming he didn't have every pint at 12:45 they should be clear by 9am.
Wouldn't stop him feeling rough as though.

Both people i know who have dui were got the morning after the night before. YANBU.

It takes about an hour per unit and I believe a pint is at least 2 units. The op's husband would still be feeling the effects and would possible/probably be over the limit.

I found this online:

As a rough guide, it’s around three hours if you drink one large glass of wine (250ml/three units), about two hours to break down a pint of beer, cider or lager (3.6%), or three hours to break down higher-strength lager, beer or cider (5.2%).

So it would take between 2 and 3 hours for one of those pints to break down.

It's about an hour per unit so roughly 16 hours for those eight pints. Even if he started drinking at say 6 he would still be over the limit. I don't think enough people are aware of this to be honest.

8 pints is 16-20 hours after starting drinking to clear an average system. UK law allows about 2 pints (NB you should never drink and drive at all) - so 12-16 hours.
Assuming he started drinking at 9, he would be border-line legal at 9am.

YANBU. Not worth the risk...especially with children in the car.

I queried whether it was from starting or ending drinking and I was told you should calculate from the time of your last drink.

It can take a few hours before your body starts metabolising the alcohol.

Someone once posted a really knowledgable post on here about how it works.

Anyway the legal this is as always a red herring. Would you want your children driven around by someone who might be borderline ok in the law but still rough, still has alcohol in their system etc?

I wouldn't.

Although it depends on the person. Those rates pp have mentioned depend on build and how your body breaks down alcohol etc. I wouldn't be happy about it.

The thing is, even if you were just below the limit, I would barely be fit to make my way to the bus stop at 9am the morning after 8 pints let alone drive a car!

As pp said it's an hour a unit and it's after your last drink. A pint is about 2 units, although could be more depending on the strength of what he's drunk. Eight pints is at least 16 units so he'd be over the limit at 9am. Either way I wouldn't want him driving around especially not with children in the car.

According to the online calculators that measure this he won't be sober til later this afternoon.

NBU at all, I wouldn't get in the car or allow the DCs in the car with someone who'd drunk that heavily the previous evening. I'd be pretty bloody furious in your shoes.

It's not after your last drink - do you think your body waits before it starts metabolising the alcohol? To be totally correct, it is about 30 mins after the first drink.

When I go out for a drink I make sure I have no commitments the next day.

I hope your dp makes it up to you big time for having to cancel your plans.

it's the day after a massive binge and a late night. Stupid idea to drive that morning, or indeed all the next day.

two issues; breaking of a committment and apparently thinking the law doesn't apply to him.

thanks for stopping him driving; you may have saved a life, not necessarily his.

Carol that's not accurate. Your body can take several hours before beginning to metabolise. The advice is to count from your last drink to be safe. But it's ridiculous anyway, there's no reliable mathematical equation and no one should be treating it as an exact science to tell them when they are legal - not safe - to drive.

Your title says you don't want your husband to drive after drinking but you are complaining about the fact you had to change your plans.. I don't know why you didn't just take your son. When men have a drink, it's never just one.

Metabolism generally begins in about 30 mins - however, I agree it is safer to count from the last drink and there is no accurate way to tell except with a breathalyser.