DUI Movie

I stumbled on this mistakenly thinking it was some James Bond film with Denzel Washington in it. I never heard of him doing one. Well, he didn't. Turns out this is a movie about driving drunk and how lives can be ruined by doing it.

It's kind of cheesy with lame acting, but I definitely wish I would have seen this film back in 1984. It might have saved me some trouble in the years thereafter, not to mention prevented quite a few fights with the ex-wives. I'm just glad I never killed anyone before I finally realized that booze and wheels do not mix.

im just glad ur safe and sound. drinkin and drivin is bad news and leads to environmental problems. in some states its even illegal.

11Bravo said:

im just glad ur safe and sound. drinkin and drivin is bad news and leads to environmental problems. in some states its even illegal.

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yeah. imagine that.

It does seem crazy now. But, it is incredibly easy to justify driving home, "Just this once."

calamity said:

yeah. imagine that.

It does seem crazy now. But, it is incredibly easy to justify driving home, "Just this once."

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sometimes taxis are expensive

11Bravo said:

sometimes taxis are expensive

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I think ego gets in the way more than expense of the Taxi. It's easy the convince yourself that you are OK to drive. In fact, as the movie points out rather well, we all seem to believe we only had "two drinks."

calamity said:

I stumbled on this mistakenly thinking it was some James Bond film with Denzel Washington in it. I never heard of him doing one. Well, he didn't. Turns out this is a movie about driving drunk and how lives can be ruined by doing it.

It's kind of cheesy with lame acting, but I definitely wish I would have seen this film back in 1984. It might have saved me some trouble in the years thereafter, not to mention prevented quite a few fights with the ex-wives. I'm just glad I never killed anyone before I finally realized that booze and wheels do not mix.

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How dare you denigrate the national sport of Texas

I was a big time drunk driver back in the 80's, that ended when I had kids.

I dont have any scary stories or anything, nothing bad ever happened.

I taught my kids to not do it, the lessons took for 2/3.

I am looking forward to self driving cars.

FREEDOM TO DRINK!

Hawkeye10 said:

I was a big time drunk driver back in the 80's, that ended when I had kids.

I dont have any scary stories or anything, nothing bad ever happened.

I taught my kids to not do it, the lessons took for 2/3.

I am looking forward to self driving cars.

FREEDOM TO DRINK!

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I'm not sure how to send that message so it takes 100%. Maybe it is just a matter of time, and keeping fingers crossed that nothing bad happens. I know people who have 5 DUI and still do not get it. I guess it's one of those things.

Hitting the bars and letting my car find its own way home was what I call the good old days. I'm still amazed nothing really bad ever happened....well, except pissing off the wife or gf.

But, I did eventually get in trouble. And, it cost me a pretty penny to get out of it. That was enough to get me to stop.

calamity said:

I'm not sure how to send that message so it takes 100%. Maybe it is just a matter of time, and keeping fingers crossed that nothing bad happens. I know people who have 5 DUI and still do not get it. I guess it's one of those things.

Hitting the bars and letting my car find its own way home was what I call the good old days. I'm still amazed nothing really bad ever happened....well, except pissing off the wife or gf.

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I was not amazed, I expected it, my dad was a drunk driver starting at college, nothing bad ever happened to him either.

Pops taught that driving drunk is a learnable skill, that I should not drive drunk if I had not learned to do it well.

calamity said:

yeah. imagine that.

It does seem crazy now. But, it is incredibly easy to justify driving home, "Just this once."

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calamity said:

I think ego gets in the way more than expense of the Taxi. It's easy the convince yourself that you are OK to drive. In fact, as the movie points out rather well, we all seem to believe we only had "two drinks."

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I agree with both. I used to do time to quantity math. "I've had x number of beers and I've been here for y amount of time and I have to leave in Z number of hours". I got news for folks. Your math skills go out the window with your inhibitions. :2razz:

My "defining moment" was the time I was partying with coworkers and some of us had to work the next day. At the time, I had an uncanny ability to outlast other drinkers, as in they would pass out before me.
The next morning at work people kept asking how I got home. They were expecting me to be at the house we partied at in the morning and drive me to work with the rest that had to be there. When I said I drove no one would believe me. They even checked the parking lot to see if my car was there and called the others at the house to ask who had driven me home. When they resigned to the fact I had driven, they were incredulous, that I had managed not to plow into anything or get stopped. They were exactly right and it pretty much convinced me not to drive after drinking again.

Hawkeye10 said:

I was not amazed, I expected it, my dad was a drunk driver starting at college, nothing bad ever happened to him either.

Pops taught that driving drunk is a learnable skill, that I should not drive drunk if I had not learned to do it well.

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I have 4 uncles that learned it really well.
This is why I stay home on New Year's Day, Super Bowl, 4th of July, or at least get home early. My theory is lots of amateur drunk drivers on the roads in the evenings on those days. People who don't do it all the time and haven't as you say "learned the skill".

Phoenix said:

I have 4 uncles that learned it really well.
This is why I stay home on New Year's Day, Super Bowl, 4th of July, or at least get home early. My theory is lots of amateur drunk drivers on the roads in the evenings on those days. People who don't do it all the time and haven't as you say "learned the skill".

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YES! My dad used to say that too, used to say that on New Years eve say he was not worried about his ability to get home safe because he was drunk, he was worried about all the drunk idiots who were on the road that should not be because they had not learned to do it.

Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten that part of his teachings.

Note: to my knowledge dad never drove drunk with us kids in the car, that might have been because mom insisted.

Phoenix said:

I have 4 uncles that learned it really well.
This is why I stay home on New Year's Day, Super Bowl, 4th of July, or at least get home early. My theory is lots of amateur drunk drivers on the roads in the evenings on those days. People who don't do it all the time and haven't as you say "learned the skill".

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My first real gf had a dad who was a high functioning, professional martini drunk. He would start at lunch, re-up at happy hour and race home for his before dinner martini by six. He told me the trick was to get off the road before dark.