About being a designated driver.

[CantAskAnyoneElse]

So I’m a teetotaler, and often asked to be the driver.
I don’t mind it here and there, I try to avoid it if I can at this point.
But just last night happened what often does, I’m asked to stay longer, to no go ’just yet’ and this has to be just because they want to try and get a ride home.
And when I say I want to leave now, I’m called boring or whatever. Some friend of friend called me a bitch
But surely I’m not responsible of how they get home?
I hate that I’m left feeling like a bad guy.

I also have trouble with the fact that few of them have said that I should see that drunk one’s are ’safe’ or see that they got home safe.

So you turn that one right round: Ah OK I was confused about why I was being invited on these nights out. I thought it was because you wanted to socialise with me. I see how that the only reason I am being invited is because the group wants to make me responsible for baby-sitting the drunks and taxi-ing everyone home for free at the end of the night. What exactly do I get out of this arrangement?

You have to be blunt. They are taking the piss. In your shoes I would find better friends.