Confessions
 

Apologies if there's already been a confessions thread, this place seems huge when you've been away 3 years, here's mine;

I just drove drunk for the first time in like 10 years. To be honest I'm not trashed, but am probably pretty close to the new legal limit in WI .08

Also it was a 1/4 mile round trip (yeah I went and bought more hooch) still, I'm not particularly proud of this.

Anyway I want to hear some real confessions.

When I last used Mum's Kenwood Chef (food mixer) smoke came out of the back.
Enough to set the smoke alarm off.

I just washed up the bowl and put it back in the cupboard.
In my defence, I know I didn't mis-use it in any way.
I just didn't want to cop the blame.

I took too much of my adderall which is prescribed for my ADHD. I am supposed to take only 40mg/day, but today I took 80mg. :eek:

what does adderall do to you? I do that all the time with vic (the blue strong ones) I'll take one, and within 5 minutes think, oh yeah I was gonna take a pain pill..... and there goes the morning.

Its a stimulent - mixed amphetamine salts. I get a real buzz if I over-medicate myself with it. I feel very guilty that I did this.

guilt is for pussies, take another one, or skip tomorrow

LOL @ Blue!

I got my Rogaine and Viagra mixed up, now my hair won't lay down for shit.

:lol: :lol:

Hilarious Gravdigr (not being a smartarse this time-I mean it).

My confession is already recorded in another thread.

I often get realllly reaaaaallly frustrated with these 2 boys and plug my ipod into my ears to escape them....for a bit too long.

I yank it way too hard sometimes. Especially when I am frustrated and uptight. It may take 8 to 9 really hard pulls sometimes to get it going.



In my defense, that dang lawnmower starter cord has always been hard to tug.

My confession:


I sat on Gravdigr's hair last night.

This may be a blessing if it disguises the fact that you're a dickhead.

I had a helluva dream last night. I dreamt I had the world's tightest hat stuck on my head...

Only fair. I had the worlds biggest dick in my ass. ;)

That is the only time in recorded history the phrase "biggest dick" has been used in reference to The Gravdigr...(on second thought, maybe not...):blush:

Thank you.

Blue, I don't like drink driving, but this time I'm calling you a lazy bugger for taking the car on a 1/4 mile round trip. You could have walked - well, staggered - that far.

.08 is stupid.

Not to the lives it has saved, it isn't. Year after year the percentage of fatalities due to drunk driving have steadily decreased.

Bullshit, .08 hasn't saved any more lives than .1 would have. All it's done is ruined peoples lives and raised money.

agreed, it does nothing to keep the really bad repeat offenders off the road, and although you can't measure stupid, it's way aboove .08
yes I could have walked, I should have, hooch is heavy tho

Yes, it has. Since it came about in '02, the reduction in deaths has increased at a greater ratio than the years prior.

What they need is a heavyweight license. A friend of mine got booked at .10, but he's a serious alcoholic and a part-time bartender at Philly's Rum Bar. .10 is probably his walking around level. He should have a license for .13 or something.

No, it wasn't until 2005 that all states had .08. You're attributing the reduction of deaths which happened for many reasons, to the reduction in BAC. Also the way they now gather statistics, if a sober driver hits a drunk on a bicycle, it's an alcohol related death.

Driving drunk is bad, no question about it, but the drunks on the road are well over .1 BAC. The social drinker who is not impaired, is not a menace, is being harassed and financially raped, by this .08 bullshit. This is not an attack on drunk drivers, it's a thinly disguised attack on drinking at all.

My friend said he basically had a choice between paying 3 grand for a lawyer or going to jail for a weekend. He was poor so he chose B.

Aren't the DUII laws are based on greater than 0.08
and/or field sobiety tests by a LEO ?

link


The effects of alcohol intoxication are greatly influenced by individual variations among users. Some users may become intoxicated at a much lower Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level than is shown.

0.02-0.03 BAC: No loss of coordination, slight euphoria and loss of shyness. Depressant effects are not apparent. Mildly relaxed and maybe a little lightheaded.

0.04-0.06 BAC: Feeling of well-being, relaxation, lower inhibitions, sensation of warmth. Euphoria. Some minor impairment of reasoning and memory, lowering of caution. Your behavior may become exaggerated and emotions intensified (Good emotions are better, bad emotions are worse)

0.07-0.09 BAC: Slight impairment of balance, speech, vision, reaction time, and hearing. Euphoria. Judgment and self-control are reduced, and caution, reason and memory are impaired, .08 is legally impaired and it is illegal to drive at this level. You will probably believe that you are functioning better than you really are.

0.10-0.125 BAC: Significant impairment of motor coordination and loss of good judgment. Speech may be slurred; balance, vision, reaction time and hearing will be impaired. Euphoria.

P.S., The author in this link makes a (dumb) common mistake when setting ranges.
0.02-0.03
.................<--------- what happened to 0.031 to 0.040 ?
0.04-0.06

The rates have still gone done even when accounting for the date and impaired driver. I cant for the life of me find the link I got the chart from, but this site posts similar statistics)

Its true that serial DUI offenders have much higher bacs and are responsible for nearly 50% of the fatalities, however, my husband and I are both much less inclined to drink if we are going to drive because of this limit, and I'm sure we are not alone in that regard. Its had an impact.

For me it's not about the death/crash statistics--I've seen video of a dozen people who believed they would be fine at .08, took a driving test on a closed course, drank until they blew exactly .08, and then took the test again. They were all impaired to some degree (despite being familiar with the course the second go-round,) and most to the degree that they accidentally "hit" something on the course.

Some people may be fine at .08. But many definitely are not. Unless we work out a program involving UT's heavyweight/lightweight boozer license designation, the state has to go with the safest common denominator.

Easy question (and you already know the answer). This is simple rounding. The precision of the values in his ranges is set to the nearest one-hundredth. Which means that your question about what happens to the values from 0.031 to 0.040 is that they're rounded to the nearest hundredth and categorized accordingly. Values in the range 0.031 -- 0.034 are declared to be 0.03. Values in the range 0.035 -- 0.040 are declared to be 0.040. Obviously you could repeat this same question with the range "what happened to 0.0340 to 0.0350" ad nauseam. I'd rather have a Pepto instead.

Right, that's the only way to cram 300,000,000 into neat pigeon holes.

It's a good graph Pico but it does not isolate .08's effect. For example it doesn't take into account a big drop in drinking overall, a major cultural shift. Especially down is binge drinking in inexperienced drivers, the most dangerous kind:

http://cellar.org/2010/hsdrinkinggraph.gif

In fact, given these trends, along with improved alcohol education, you would expect your graph to have an even larger drop-off.

Yeah, but if you did drink and drive, you would have pulled it off.

You and your husband considered the possibilities and decided not to drink. Two decades ago you would have decided which of you was in better condition to drive, and then you would have driven home; and nothing would have happened. You would have known you were impaired, it would be unusual to you, and you would have driven carefully. In fact if you knew you were actually not in condition to drive, you wouldn't have driven.

Alcoholics do not have this choice. I'm suggesting that most really serious, fatal accidents do not happen at .08, but are alcoholics who are at .15 and up.

At .08 you are three seconds slower, and you rear-end somebody at a red light, but you're going 10 MPH because you've hit the brakes, just too late.

At .13 you miss the red light entirely and T-bone somebody in the intersection. It sucks hard, but nobody (usually) dies.

But at .27 you enter the wrong ramp of the highway, go the wrong way at 50 MPH and hit someone head-on.

Because you're an alcoholic, you fail to make the right choice even if you are a PA state trooper and accident investigator who had a similar crash four months prior.

additional story

Bonus karma: the trooper killed himself, but not his 23 year old victim. He was not wearing a seatbelt... she was.

cars are safer too

All true and also it occurred to me this morning that the seat belt law has probably had an affect on those numbers as well. But I really hate the rationalizing that goes along with the decision to drink and drive. Its just best to not do it, because once alcohol is in the equation, judgment is always impaired.

Are you sure, tho, that the .08 limit hasn't played a part in reducing drunk driving incidents overall?

yeah, that's true. is there a stat that gives alcohol related accidents?

Those numbers are hard to get because they aren't collected by the feds. The states have a lot of detail; PA creates a book on all the stats every year. But they are weak on historical numbers. PA's latest book only gives a 5 year trend on alcohol related crashes. The numbers trend down, going from about 13,500 crashes in 2004 to 12,750 in 2008. The number of fatal crashes trends slightly up, going from 487 to 498.

hey! take this shit to a drunk driving thread? there were like 3 lameass confessions, what are y'all, saints?

One of the many reasons I dropped out of Catholicism was the whole concept of confessional. I never felt that I had done anything wrong, certainly nothing that a forgiving god would hold a child's feet to the fire for, so the whole canard seemed forced and affected.

I reasoned, god knew what I'd been up to anyway, and he knew what was in my heart, therefore knowing whether I really was repentant, so why get some priest involved in the deal?

Sermon fodder?

I wonder where priests stand on guys who save it up for years, give a very descriptive high-light reel, and immediately follow up with out-takes of same, including clerical reaction, in a drunken group setting...

Anyway I didn't even go near the thing when I was churched, it is too manipulative.

OMG, I thought that said semen fodder

Ha! Perfect.

I just went grocery shopping and was so pissed off that I left my cart on the tree island in the parking lot instead of returning it to the store or a bay. I never do that.

Left your cart on the tree island?? What are you, some type of monster?

what got you that enraged?

Brain-dead cashier, of course....

dude, you gotta be nice to them.. their lives suck, plus they get all flirty & shiat cause of the desperation and sometimes forget to ring stuff up. Take out your fury on some rich prick on a golf course.

You are a dude right?

Not a dude with a dangly bit. Besides, I didn't take it out on her -and i was keeping her buddy the cart collector in employment. :lol:

You are out of control, Ma'am. Do you have any conception of what would happen in this world if everyone just left their carts on the tree island?

It would be ghastly. We would be living in a sea of anarchy. The whole moral fiber of society would fall apart.

Won't take time stamp, start at 1:15

Leaving shopping carts willy-nilly in parking lots is contributing to global warming.

I broke the house. Actually I drove into the garage door of our rental house.
I got scared driving (I have an L) and hit the gas instead of the break.Gonna cost me $$$$

Everytime someone does that, a Bosnian girl tosses puppies off a bridge. I so sorry :(

Everyone should return your carts/buggies to the correct place after delivering your goods to your car. Just do it!

Yesterday I went to Burger King for lunch :(

But I only had a Jr Whopper with cheese (no pickle no ketchup, light mayo) :yum:

And I can't even remember the last time I went into BK or McDs -loooong time.....

Drive through?

nope. I hate drive-throughs. It's more of a pain when your order is wrong -as it was the first time this time. But I sat in my car to eat. I was quite proud that i actually stopped to eat and enjoy rather than scarfing as I drove....

Jr Whopper? You're not from around here, are you?
:D

Whopper Jr, whatever, it's been so long.....

Today I am atoning. I'm going for a run. if I'm not back in an hour, call the cops or Oprah or Weighwatchers or something.

...anyone other than the fire dept - they're all busy.

It'k OK, I'm back and alive... I think

Can you see yourself in a mirror?