Life can change in an instant.

Dissidentman

Poncier wrote:

mysticweed wrote:

mca47 wrote:

I know a girl...not a smart girl by any means...who got a DUI (like a .3!) about 3 months ago. She had her license taken away but still drove her car. A month after her DUI she got drunk at the bars and tried to drive home. Ended up totaling her car after she plowed into a guard rail or something. She blew a .35 or something! :fp: Thank god she didn't kill anyone!
She got hauled off to tent city and will be spending some serious time in jail for the months to come! :fp:
Oh, they also found a number of "prescription" and illegal drugs in her system too. Dumb!

jfc a 35?
is that even on the chart

Isn't .35 like comatose or something.

1/3 or your circulating fluid being ethanol? Seems normal to me.

whispering hands

Poncier wrote:

mysticweed wrote:

mca47 wrote:

I know a girl...not a smart girl by any means...who got a DUI (like a .3!) about 3 months ago. She had her license taken away but still drove her car. A month after her DUI she got drunk at the bars and tried to drive home. Ended up totaling her car after she plowed into a guard rail or something. She blew a .35 or something! :fp: Thank god she didn't kill anyone!
She got hauled off to tent city and will be spending some serious time in jail for the months to come! :fp:
Oh, they also found a number of "prescription" and illegal drugs in her system too. Dumb!

jfc a 35?
is that even on the chart

Isn't .35 like comatose or something.

.35 is borderlkine AP. definately blackout level. but as you drink more your body builds a tolerance to it, and the brain learns to adapt, so that it thinks it's functioning..in reality, youn are NOT functioning..
I got a DUI in 2003, with a reading of only.081. Lost my license..did all the requiremwents..went to Jail for three months, ( which sucked cause mny parents came nout nto Joplin to visit us.. lo and behold.. they had to come visit me in Jail..my dad STILL gives me shit over that..)for my FIRST and last offense..meanwhile..I know this chick out there (Joplin) whose got ten DUIs!!! she's wrecked more cars in the twelve years I've known her thN i HYAVE OWNED IN MY LIFETIME!!! Her dad just keeps getting her new cars.. One day I told her, her dad must hate her..when she asked why.. I told her cause he knows y0u're just gonna go ge drunk and fucked up on pills and speed, crfash, almost kill yourself yet again, and he still gives you cars!! so he must be hoping with each car you crash, you get it right and kill yourself..
She didn't talk to me for four years over that one... BUT when she did finally talk to me.. she said I was right..
and she has since quit driving if she's drank anyhting..now.. if we can just get her to quit doing drugs and driving!!LOL My DUI is still costing me!! I have been going to school to vbe an EMT.. they ran my FED Check, the DUI came u-p.. DENIED!! because I can't get a commercial license.. so now I have to find a new field of study..

If I had known then.. what I know now..
suddenly I'm craving No Code..
Good luck to your friend AND his family SPEEDY hope he's learned from this.. I know I sure did!!

mydogmookieblaylock

i have had 3 dui's
also was hospitalized once and blew a .467 .... doctor told me i was close to the level where organs start to shut down.

last dui involved an accident - no one was hurt but i don't remember it which means i could have killed myself or worse -- a family of innocent people.
I did my time - well still doing some of it (parole).
Haven't drank in almost 2 years.
I was fired from my job for becoming a felon - did some time in a correctional facility.

that all seems really bad - but in truth it wasn't - it was the best thing that could have happened. I was wasting my life. Literally.
So yeah , things can change in an instant and it seems hopeless and shitty, but you never know. It might be the thing that brings to back to yourself.
I don't make as much money as i did before - but i make enough - and i like my job and more importantly i like my life. Turns out i don't need as much money when i am not dropping hundreds at the bar every other night.

When i am sober i can tell you i would NEVER drive drunk again - but i know that once i start drinking i have no idea what i might do - wake up in vegas - married to a stripper named alabama or just try to drive myself home. The cab thing doesn't work - i have taken a cab home and then drove myself to the casino at 3 am.
fuck that. better without it for this guy.
And it took a really bad situation for me to finally stop.

"if hope can grow from dirt like me .... it can be done"

BinauralJam

mydogmookieblaylock wrote:

i have had 3 dui's
also was hospitalized once and blew a .467 .... doctor told me i was close to the level where organs start to shut down.

last dui involved an accident - no one was hurt but i don't remember it which means i could have killed myself or worse -- a family of innocent people.
I did my time - well still doing some of it (parole).
Haven't drank in almost 2 years.
I was fired from my job for becoming a felon - did some time in a correctional facility.

that all seems really bad - but in truth it wasn't - it was the best thing that could have happened. I was wasting my life. Literally.
So yeah , things can change in an instant and it seems hopeless and shitty, but you never know. It might be the thing that brings to back to yourself.
I don't make as much money as i did before - but i make enough - and i like my job and more importantly i like my life. Turns out i don't need as much money when i am not dropping hundreds at the bar every other night.

When i am sober i can tell you i would NEVER drive drunk again - but i know that once i start drinking i have no idea what i might do - wake up in vegas - married to a stripper named alabama or just try to drive myself home. The cab thing doesn't work - i have taken a cab home and then drove myself to the casino at 3 am.
fuck that. better without it for this guy.
And it took a really bad situation for me to finally stop.

"if hope can grow from dirt like me .... it can be done"

:shock: F'n Bad ASS!!! glad your not anymore.

mydogmookieblaylock

BinauralJam wrote:

:shock: F'n Bad ASS!!! glad your not anymore.

thanks Me too. ..... me too.

rival.

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Guy I work with goes out Saturday night, gets tanked, and ends up with a DUI. This guy drives a semi for a living, this guy has a wife, kids, a mortgage payment, etc. He has lost his license, it will cost close to $10,000 in attorneys fees. If our company doesnt find something else for him to do(work on the dock loading trucks), he is FUCKED! Even if he gets his license back in a year, no other trucking company will hire him for at least 2-3 years.
One real stupid decison, just changed this guys life FOREVER!

sounds like his life changed for the next 2-3 years until he gets hired by another company.

his life would have changed FOREVER if he killed someone. guy got off lucky.

no sympathy.

Mamasan23

mydogmookieblaylock wrote:

i have had 3 dui's
also was hospitalized once and blew a .467 .... doctor told me i was close to the level where organs start to shut down.

last dui involved an accident - no one was hurt but i don't remember it which means i could have killed myself or worse -- a family of innocent people.
I did my time - well still doing some of it (parole).
Haven't drank in almost 2 years.
I was fired from my job for becoming a felon - did some time in a correctional facility.

that all seems really bad - but in truth it wasn't - it was the best thing that could have happened. I was wasting my life. Literally.
So yeah , things can change in an instant and it seems hopeless and shitty, but you never know. It might be the thing that brings to back to yourself.
I don't make as much money as i did before - but i make enough - and i like my job and more importantly i like my life. Turns out i don't need as much money when i am not dropping hundreds at the bar every other night.

When i am sober i can tell you i would NEVER drive drunk again - but i know that once i start drinking i have no idea what i might do - wake up in vegas - married to a stripper named alabama or just try to drive myself home. The cab thing doesn't work - i have taken a cab home and then drove myself to the casino at 3 am.
fuck that. better without it for this guy.
And it took a really bad situation for me to finally stop.

"if hope can grow from dirt like me .... it can be done"

Wow. Glad to hear you were able to turn your life around! It takes a strong person to recognize that they need to change. Kudos to you.

mydogmookieblaylock

Mamasan23 wrote:

Wow. Glad to hear you were able to turn your life around! It takes a strong person to recognize that they need to change. Kudos to you.

thanks.

Sometimes it takes a life changing event to start that change.