Wednesdays Suck!

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Commissar Elvis

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I go out tonight with the best of intentions. I meet a friend at Applebee\'s, I pick up ~$20K worth of electronics (surface mount & DIP mount stuff), and all he wants for it is ~$5K. All I have to do is sell it and I get a good percentage. I carry this on to my normal drinking establishment. Everything is GREAT. I don\'t pay a single tab - all my buddies are picking up my tabs like gangbusters. This is unprecedentedly wonderful!

So, my best friend shows up. He can\'t drive because, alas, he has two DUIs under his belt. I decide to drive him home because I\'m a good sport and haven\'t drank very much.

So what happens? A dipshit RUNS A RED LIGHT and crashes into me while I\'m turning on a GREEN ARROW. Here\'s the best part - I KNOW THE GUY.

So now my truck is crashed (gonna need a new front driver\'s 1/4 panel, bumper, air dam, some other shit), I have no vehicle to tool around in, and I\'m generally unhappy.

Bonus bit: the lesbian cop gives me the old horizontal nystagmus and discovers, shock of all shockers, that I\'m drunk. I got out of it nicely by answering her question about a head wound with a \"Yes, I do have one, and it screws up my peripheral vision\" (which it does, and yes I have one). Instead of carting me off to jail, she lets the tow truck driver bring me to my house. Now THAT IS COOL. Somehow I always get along with lesbians...this is the most recent example, and still holds up the saying that I often bring up - \"I\'ve yet to have a bad experience with a cop.\" Law enforcement RULES. :D
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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While I have some sympathy for your wrecked car, I actually have somewhat less sympathy because of the condition you were driving in.

While I\'m not going to go into the whole Alcohol / Driving debate, as I\'ve done that stupidity myself in the past, You were incredibly lucky.
You really need to look out that cop and say thank you properly. She could have canned your ass and really ruined your day.
I\'m glad you weren\'t hurt, metal is easier to repair than Skin & bone. :)
 
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Klute

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Well you are lucky.

BUT

What if you had no alchohol in your system at all.
Would your reactions have been quick enough to avoid the other vehicle all together.

OK jumping a red light is bad,knowingly or not.

Getting behind the wheel while under the influence is just plain irrisponsible.

This time a vehicle,next time maybe a kid on the sidewalk/footpath.

The cop should have locked you up and tuaght you a lesson before something like does happen.


sorry but I LOATHE DRINK DRIVING.
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Ritual

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Yeah, there\'s no excuse for driving when you\'re under influence. A lot of fatal accidents could be avoided if people respected that! Most of the time, the one who\'s been drinking is not the one that gets injured or killed.
 
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RedDawn

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Before we all go ballistic...

...we need to remember that he said he \"hadn\'t had that much to drink.\" Not that I approve of drinking and driving (at all) I\'ve been out, had a drink or two and then hours later driven home. That could very well have been the case here. We don\'t know.

And, I know it sucks to be without a vehicle, but you\'re damn lucky to not be hurt AND to have not gotten a ticket and you\'re a good friend to not let your friend drive.
 
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RedDawn

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Shame on...

...me. You\'re right Ritual. I looked back at his original post and he admits he was drunk. Shame on you Elvis. :( But I guess it could\'ve been worse if you\'re friend had been driving.
 
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Klute

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Just dont do it.
Thats my view,no excuses.
If you have the car,dont have the drink.....not even one.
 
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marineboy

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okay, everybody\'s done it... err, well i\'ve done it.....many , MANY years ago last time... thankyour stars that you got off this cheap.

ya could get off with the percentages paying for the truck, too... :rolleyes:
 
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RedDawn

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You\'re right...

Originally posted by Klute
Just dont do it.
Thats my view,no excuses.
If you have the car,dont have the drink.....not even one.
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...but we\'ve all been stupid at one time or another. I just hope my kids aren\'t that stupid and if they are I have the patience to remember that. (Of course, that probably won\'t happen until they\'ve been grounded for the rest of their lives and I\'ve calmed down a bit!)
 
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Spacemunkie

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Only nob-heads drink and drive.

You\'d have been on the receiving end of a ridiculous fine and a lengthy ban over here.....

Rightly so.
 
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Lurch

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Originally posted by Spacemunkie
Only nob-heads drink and drive.

You\'d have been on the receiving end of a ridiculous fine and a lengthy ban over here.....

Rightly so.
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Would be in the states too.
And before anyone says \"But he IS in the states!\" remember I live in Kansas...

We in the midwest consider New York, California and Florida as Foreign countries.. lol
 
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Spacemunkie

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I live in Bradford, and we think Keighley is a foreign country!

Actually, it\'s more like an alternate dimension...... (inhabited with a barely literate chimp-like species)

:D

How d\'you know the rozzer was gay then?

That\'s a pretty cool trick....
 
freakinacage

freakinacage

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Originally posted by Dragonsreach
She could have canned your ass and really ruined your day.
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methinks mike has been watching too many cop shows!!

i also condone drink driving. i spend too much time on friday and saturday nights xraying people like that - and who don\'t wear seatbelts (thats not entirely true - sadly they don\'t always make it that far)

elvis - you have be warned!!
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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Mostly, I want to know how you know the cop was a lesbian. I do remember seeing some pics on the internet once, with this woman in a police uniform and this other woman, and um forget I said that ok?

I suspect you would have been t-boned even if you\'d been drinking Shirley Temples, so I won\'t judge.
 
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Klute

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Surely all women in police uniforms are lesbians.

or is that just in my imagination:eek:


not that I have anything against lesbians,mores the pity.
 
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