Drinking and Driving...

[pbkid]

rick- yes, you understood my statement correctly.
and ya, its amazing to see how long it stays in your system eh?

thats why i say 12 hours after your LAST drink. i have a breathilizer in my car and as long as i follow the 12 hours rule.. i havent failed once.... just an FYI (and mine is extremely accurate, maybe more so than the police.... mine is calibrated monthly)

[RickOKC]

rick- yes, you understood my statement correctly.
and ya, its amazing to see how long it stays in your system eh?

Whew, I don't like interpreting things wrong and misquoting without checking first!

What was REALLY amazing for me was during Week 2, I kept drinking another beer, waiting 20 minutes and then re-testing. I felt like I was perfectly fine to drive all the way up to a .15% BAC! That's nearly twice the legal limit and changes things here from a DUI to a FELONY DUI. Judgment truly is the first thing to go.

Dang, I HATE being this serious, but this was such a revelation for me that I can't shut up (sorry, everybody.) PBKid, I'm so sorry to hear what you're going through - it breaks my heart. Your experience is nearly a word-for-word description of the same awful pain that my buddy has described.

For those who want to try a consumer grade tester and don't know where to find one, check this out. It's similar to what we got. It comes with 3 mouth pieces so you can lend it to others without them getting a case of the "oogies." Share the gift of knowledge.

[pbkid]

well, all i can say for myself is that it was definately a lesson well learned...

now that you know what you feel like at different BAC levels... imagine getting pulled over at .1 and thinking that your perfectly fine... hence the lesson learned

[BigSwede]

I felt like I was perfectly fine to drive all the way up to a .15% BAC!

And that is exactly what I want to find out. Maybe I have been fooling myself (and lucky) all these years.

[circmand]

DUI does not mean drunk you may actually be fine to drive the nanny state decided .10% was too much awhile back the for political reasons changed it to .08% just so MADD would be happy and politicians could get their vote. As I stated I have never found any info that tests were done to determine when achohol actuall begins to affect driving in a measurable way. Also most states have a double whammy set up on DUI where they charge you with 2 things so they can plead you down to one thing. They get their money from you, your attorney gets his/her money from you and you think they did something for it and your insurance company gets more of your money. On the bright side the cop who pulled me was cool. At the hospital he let me go out and smoke while we waited for a blood test. He failed to show up at my arraignment so my costs were minimal and that Halloween as I was giving out candy at my folks house I found out he lived down the block from them and we chatted