so have you drank to much and gotten behind the wheel. or now days text and drive.

sevenofnine

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I guess this is in response to the thread, I got my first dui.

I would say most people have at one point in there life time,
to be honest a cop said in the last six months to me, its not so much drunk driving any more, its distracted driving now days.
So I include that,
So fess up have you drove drunk do you, do you text and drive or talk on your phone.
Like I said fess up.


For myself.
I would say in my younger days there was a period of a year or so, I drank and drove yeah, like thirty years ago.
When my kids were born, it was kind of enough of that.


Now days sad to say, I mostly likely have but rarely.
One sp, I used to see, one of the reasons why I stopped seeing her,
I never drank so much in my life, being with her, and then trying to get home, it was fucking stupid,
So I don't see her any more.

The sp I see now, yeah we drink, I saw her yesterday, but I bussed.
She lives off a main line route, a bus every ten minutes,

Sometimes I have a car, but we eat, and spread it out over like four hours or so, I would say I am bumping up against it, but safe.

I text once in a while mostly at a red light but again rarely.

And again you would not believe how many people text and drive or talk and drive,


So the question do you.
 
I used to text and drive but it is illegal to do it at the stop light as well now. I drank and drove once. But I drove really really slow:)rolleyes:). It was Victoria at about 2am. There was no one around does that make it any better? No.

At first when I read "distracted" driving, I thought Do you have passengers in the back seat you are talking, looking through your rear view mirror? DISTRACTED.
Reaching in your purse/briefcase. DISTRACTED.
Adjusting your make up.DISTRACTED
Shaving.DISTRACTED.
Eating. DISTRACTED
Using electronic devices in your car. DISTRACTED

I mean the list goes on and on. Even pedestrians get struck and killed on Granville for texting and WALKING.

So I text and walk, but I never text when I am in the process of crossing a street. Heck sometimes I even stop walking and step to the side, AS A PEDESTRIAN, and do my texting so I can be focused.

Now in all seriousness., I gave up my car last January after I got into my 3rd "big city" accident. I realized I was more afraid of getting into an accident, when I should be calm in knowing I will get to my destination safely.
I use transit, it gets me where I am going and if it is too late to take transit home or I feel too drunk to take transit I just hop in a cab life is just so much easier that way.





...TRANSIT!! :D
 

dickotoole

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I was raised in a small town, back in the day drinking almost went with driving on Friday and Saturday nights. I had cops help me get unstuck in winter, park my car for me, and give me a ride home. Several times. Shit faced. Streets were empty at 3,4,5 and 6 in the morning. One time I passed out at a stop light at about 3 or 4 in the morning, woke up because a guy honked his horn behind me. So, I drove home and had a sleep. I can't believe how idiotic I was but then again, I am a guy who likes the edge even today so back then my "edge" was way past the edge of things.

Textiing today, all the time whenever I feel it is safe meaning there is no traffic around me. So, I know I am still an idiot just less of one than I used to be. :)
 
I was raised in a small town, back in the day drinking almost went with driving on Friday and Saturday nights. I had cops help me get unstuck in winter, park my car for me, and give me a ride home. Several times. Shit faced. Streets were empty at 3,4,5 and 6 in the morning. One time I passed out at a stop light at about 3 or 4 in the morning, woke up because a guy honked his horn behind me. So, I drove home and had a sleep. I can't believe how idiotic I was but then again, I am a guy who likes the edge even today so back then my "edge" was way past the edge of things.

Textiing today, all the time whenever I feel it is safe meaning there is no traffic around me. So, I know I am still an idiot just less of one than I used to be. :)

You Are not the only one. I worked in a bar on Vancouver Island and that drink and drive mentality was never given a second thought. Then the RCMP really started to crack down over the last decade (2,3 decades?) and people would say to me when I asked what they wanted to drink......"Nope not even one for me, I am driving and the cops are none to friendly out these ways."
 

peter putter

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Attitudes change, true story, early 1970's , a carload of us were pulled over on #3 road in Richmond, three cop cars involved , everyone out, searched looking for weed, etc. Nothing found so move along boys.

Driver refuses says "you guys will give me a impaired if I move and refuses to. By now traffic backed up and the last cop there - and after 10 minutes of debate- agrees that the least impaired person in the car can drive as long as we head start home.

Still can't believe to this day the shit we got away with. :D
 
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Read a article a while back that says a study showed , texting causes triple the amount of accidents as drinking and driving.
And I sure see alot of people still texting and driving.....maybe time to treat them the same as DUI's
 
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