I never have, and I hope to goodness I never will.
Same here. I know the legal limit, I know my limit, and I know when I'll blow over the legal limit. I managed to learn before I had any problems encountered.
To be fair, it's easier for me - I drive a van, so if I've driven somewhere and I get soused, then I can just crash out in the back. I've even got a swag in there for that purpose.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the phrase "err on the side of caution" applies here. I have sat in my car in a parking lot for 45 minutes after a restaurant closed waiting for the rest of the alcohol in my system to metabolize rather than drive the short distance home in a questionable state. Maybe George is just projecting his inadvisable choices on others. :P
I'm just honest. I definitely thought I was fine to drive when I pulled out of the parking lot. Poor Walker was just over the limit, it's just a poor judgement call. I don't want to gang up on the guy.
I never have, and I hope to goodness I never will.
Same here. I know the legal limit, I know my limit, and I know when I'll blow over the legal limit. I managed to learn before I had any problems encountered.
To be fair, it's easier for me - I drive a van, so if I've driven somewhere and I get soused, then I can just crash out in the back. I've even got a swag in there for that purpose.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the phrase "err on the side of caution" applies here. I have sat in my car in a parking lot for 45 minutes after a restaurant closed waiting for the rest of the alcohol in my system to metabolize rather than drive the short distance home in a questionable state. Maybe George is just projecting his inadvisable choices on others. :P
I think it's not that unreasonable to suspect that most folks, maybe most older folks whose 21st birthday well predated the PSA blitzes on DUI (buzzed is still drunk, and all that), have gotten in a car and then thought better of it after the fact. I'm pretty careful with alcohol, even a little nervous about it, and I've done it. I don't think every instance of "wow, that beer was a little stronger than I thought" requires a public pillorying, especially not if the behavior is self corrected.
That's not to say that this should be license to go out and test your limits on the road empirically...
I'm just honest. I definitely thought I was fine to drive when I pulled out of the parking lot. Poor Walker was just over the limit, it's just a poor judgement call. I don't want to gang up on the guy.
And he's admitted fault. Ganging up is unneeded.
I did it once. Once. I felt like an asshole afterwards. Never again.
I'm just honest. I definitely thought I was fine to drive when I pulled out of the parking lot. Poor Walker was just over the limit, it's just a poor judgement call. I don't want to gang up on the guy.
And he's admitted fault. Ganging up is unneeded.
I did it once. Once. I felt like an asshole afterwards. Never again.
As I once said to a friend, there's the old joke about driving drunk. If you do it, you're a moron, if you make it home, you're a legend.
What do you spend your money on in an average month?
Aside from rent and utilities, I spend my monthly money on (roughly):
~$400 - Groceries ~$350 - Nice dinners ~$200 - Lunch every workday ~$140 - Internet and phone ~$100 - Transportation ~$80 - General shopping (clothes, games, etc...)
That's basically it. I don't buy stuff that often. The "general shopping" is an average, but I only buy things I need when I need them. I do buy everything I want immediately when I want it, but that is a very small number of large transactions (flights to a con, laptop, etc...).
So that's the sum of a fairly extravagant lifestyle. The vast majority of my non-rent money goes into food.
Spend a lot less eating out and add a $400 worth of car payment and insurance and $200 worth of gasoline and that's my average budget. And $1000 paying off my credit card, but I want to keep paying that when I pay it off in two months and just throw that into savings.
It's the "and" paying $1000 on the card that you seem to be forgetting, George. That's effectively $1000 of what could be savings. Are you paying for past living expenses or fun time purchases?
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Corollary:
"Party hard, work harder, leave a battered corpse as a glorious legacy to the legend of you."
/Ikid
That's not to say that this should be license to go out and test your limits on the road empirically...
I did it once. Once. I felt like an asshole afterwards. Never again.
Aside from rent and utilities, I spend my monthly money on (roughly):
~$400 - Groceries
~$350 - Nice dinners
~$200 - Lunch every workday
~$140 - Internet and phone
~$100 - Transportation
~$80 - General shopping (clothes, games, etc...)
That's basically it. I don't buy stuff that often. The "general shopping" is an average, but I only buy things I need when I need them. I do buy everything I want immediately when I want it, but that is a very small number of large transactions (flights to a con, laptop, etc...).
So that's the sum of a fairly extravagant lifestyle. The vast majority of my non-rent money goes into food.
I "broke even" for a long time early on out of university, but really that was money paying down student loans.
George, 2 months is cake. Don't stress. I've got 37 months to go...