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How many DUI's did deserve vs. How many you actually received?
Deserved? 100s if not 1000s
Received? None.
I was so dumb and thank goodness I never hurt anyone (physically)
A reality of me drinking on the job was that I had to drive with alcohol in my system every day and usually had an open container in the car. Completely pure stupid luck that I never got caught or hurt somebody.
Same if it wasn’t for Covid I would have been out of the medical field. Which I am now on my own accord and mental health. 1000 probably easily since I was 17+. 33 now sober for a year. A lot of the time Driving with one eye open to go get more vodka luckily I’ve always have lived close but that just helped the abuse.
Driving with one eye open
Oh god I'm getting flashbacks
Driving with one eye open
What does that mean?
Literally driving with one eye closed because you’re seeing double
Ugh. Been there more than once.
What do YOU mean
Scary to remember.
Been there. And you are exactly right. SCARY to remember.
Or not remember driving home.
Waking up halfway in my car and halfway in my front yard. Thinking it was funny.
And then 20 more years of shit like that went by before I realized I needed to try and stop being that person.
Nothing like parking on the lawn. Hoot explaining fer sure over coffee..
Man, all the time. "Which way did I come home last night?"
same. i get anxiety thinking about certain times I could’ve/should’ve gotten on
... ditto. im very very lucky ive never hurt or killed anyone.
Yeah; I’m in the same boat. I’ve certainly made mistakes that cost me big but I never caught a charge and likely should have.
The biggest was that I was in a motorcycle accident, which caused me to lose my job and I became a Right Below the Knee Amputee but didn’t receive a charge.
Holy Frank!! Lots of charges, no crashes. Lost some blood on several occasions.
Yeah, the struggle is different for everyone.
I still consider myself lucky! It could have gone a lot worse. My “job” was with the US Army, so I could be in Leavenworth or have gotten a dishonorable
Same boat as you. I'm so happy to have been so lucky in this regard
I did it often enough at night that now I assume everyone I see on the road at night has been drinking.
Same. I came so close to getting pulled over while drunk multiple times.
Ditto. Thankful for my sheer luck across the board. 🙏
Same. How I escaped penalty is beyond me.
This, and agree
I'm the same. 8% Tallboy always in my cupholder. Deserve one every time I drive. Never got one. I've even been pulled over and given warnings for speed while I had an open down on the floor. I know I need help. I'm here to try and build the motivation.
Hey man I was a habitual drunk driver and daily binge drinker for over two decades.
This sub popped on my feed a little over three years ago. I remember muting it, Lol. At some point that little voice made me join and I lurked for a while “building motivation”.
12/1/21, just a random day like any other. I even had two cases of beer on tap. My dad had come up for a visit and he usually asked for a beer or two. Typically I would have drank as I always do but I told myself I’d wait til he asked for one. He didn’t. The evening wore on and I ended up not drinking. Literally the first night in at least four years.
And I came here and made a commitment on the DCI to not drink that next day. And the next. And here I am some two weeks away from a comma.
This has hands down without question been the hardest thing I’ve accomplished so far. But it can be done. I’m rooting for you, my friend. Keep reading posts and engaging and learning. Build that motivation and we will be here for you 100% when you’re ready for a change. Stay safe
What’s the DCI?
The daily check in
Someone else probably knows the acronym but I believe they're referring to the counter we can start that flairs our comments with how many days it's been since our last drink.
That is amazing! I remember seeing you on here when you first started- I am very proud of you! I continued to keep trying to moderate but am finally done and on day 15, woohoo.
15 days is legit Epic!!! I’m so glad you never lost focus or the fight. God, I played that moderation game for soooooo long. I am super proud of you as well!!! Never stop fighting for the best version of you!💪
Thank you for such an encouraging comment, much appreciated!! I am super excited about my new alcohol free life, prioritizing health again and good sleep. It feels amazing just waking up in the morning- not having to worry about being hungover, who I texted and all that craziness!
Comma day is in sight. Oh my! Crazy Cool!
Check you out!!! One year right around the corner!! Keep absolutely crushing it💪
We're glad you're here. Keep on keeping on and IWNDWYT!
Unfortunately today's already out, but thank you, friend.
Wisconsinite here: it is possible to quit drinking in this state and it feels terrific. I come from a big drinking family and a very drunk friend group and found shockingly little pushback or stigma for my decision. Your people will get it. I wish you support and grace as you begin the hard process of moving away from the bottle. You got this!
It must feel pretty great to drive sober in the state with the most DUIs.
That, or terrifying, knowing that if YOU are sober, that means there's just one more OTHER drunk out there on the roads with you.
True. I had no idea Wisconsin had the most drunks😱
good luck buddy.
Tomorrow is a new day, another opponent. We'll be here.
Have you considered attending an AA meeting?
No, because it's been corrupted by religion.
It’s definitely more spiritual than religious because they say to choose your own conception of a higher power. It’s a legit program. And it works. But you do you man, it’s your life 🤷♂️ I hope you don’t hurt anybody else
Got pulled over for going a few kms above the speed limit. Had both weed and booze on board with an open 2-6 in my back seat. He took just my info and then told me I was getting a warning because I was compliant, told me to slow down and then I was on my way.
I don’t plan to fuck up like that again. I got really lucky.
Same. I think the only reason why he didn't smell anything was because we were on the highway and he walked up to my passenger window.
I would keep a Natty Daddy in my cupholder for drives too, bro.
You gotta remember that the only likely way a normal citizen would end up going to prison is for something they’ve done in their car.
If a couple of kids run out in front of your car and you’re drunk, that’s your life and their families ruined in an instant.
Deserved hundreds, received 3. Wrecked the car really bad on the last one and walked away unscathed. I'm so lucky it's unreal.
Didn't stop drinking and driving though. Deserved dozens more after the 3rd. I'm so lucky it's unreal lol. Never again.
Edit: Wow, day counter is the same as my birth year. Here's to it passing and never coming up again!
I've deserved dozens and dozens. I've received zero. It's a huge point of guilt that I'm still working to get over.
I never really thought about it that way, but I was almost relieved when I got mine. I think that's why, I knew I deserved to be punished and It finally happened
Received 2. Deserved hundreds. What guilts and shames me the most, was doing it while I had people I love in the car. Thank god nothing bad ever happened, but if I did I don’t know how I would live with myself.
Honestly, I try not to think about this - around the age of 25 I finally stopped doing this after getting into a mild fender-bender after a few glasses of wine (the other car was driving without insurance and I think just didn’t want to deal with the potential consequences of that - I wasn’t visibly drunk and police were never involved). But from age 18-24 I drove a lot of places absolutely TANKED. Literally anything could have happened, and I can’t believe that one accident at 25 was all that came of it.
1 when it could’ve been 100s
Well, from when I was 16 until I was 41....I was drunk driving....when I was younger, it was not a big issue & I had been stopped by Police with open containers and the most they did was make me dump it out.
In my 20's - 40's with kids, things started getting stricter, but even thou I was probably 6-8 drinks deep, I drove every afternoon after work drunk to get the kids or bring them to games or to their friends houses, I always had a Dunkin cup full of alcohol when I went food shopping. I literally was never without liquor & didn't really think much of my "driving" under the influence, probably because I had a twisted thought about - I wouldn't drink and drive at night!
So I never got a DUI back then & I quit when I was 41 for 8 years.
I started drinking again, was more afraid of driving drunk, kids all grown....but still drove to the store if I needed to for alcohol or food while drunk...and never got a DUI.
I can't even IMAGINE how many DUIs I should have gotten.
However, I do remember driving home blackout drunk (because the next day, I had no idea how I got home and the last thing I remember was being on one part of a very dark highway, praying to make it home without getting caught) that was about 2 years ago and every time I think about it, I shiver....I have not drove drunk since - even thou I have drank within the last 2 years.
I have zero DUIs and hope to never have one.
2 months sober now.
Congrats on 2 months!!
When I was younger the cops were also easy on me and just made me dump it out. One time a cop made me and my ex boyfriend open each can and dump out the case of beer we just got, right in front of him. I think we were around 16 at the time. And he made me call my mom at 3 am to pick us up.
Yes, so you are probably just a LITTLE bit younger than me...because the cops never asked if I had more in the car or anything.
They would just ask "Are you drinking"? or Tell me they could smell it, and I have always been a very honest person & I always would laugh (because I was feeling good) and say YEAH....and they would say...OK...Dump it out and i won't give you a ticket - so I guess back then they gave "tickets" but didn't arrest for a DUI.
Actually, this is probably why I continued to drink and drive as an adult because I did not think it was really a big deal...and I also thought it happened at NIGHT...LOL.
God blessed us.
Now that I think about it, in the 90’s and early 2000’s not me or any of my large group of alcoholic friends got DUI’s, some got tickets. We were all so lucky! And that we never hurt anyone else!!
I've driven countless times when I shouldn't have and thank God I didn't hurt anyone or someone I was driving with. Oddly enough, my one DUI I wasn't driving and was parked.
It's been 2 years, and I'm still dealing with it because of technicalities that are ultimately my fault. I don't know if I'll ever get my license back. I don't care. I have no business driving right now, and I'm not sure I'll ever trust myself again to have a license. If nothing else, I don't have an easy way to drive to a liquor store and get some. That has helped so much with my sobriety.
What state? Losing your license for a parked infraction is insane to my Wisconsin drunk brain.
I know I'm going to probably sound dumb but what's involved in a DUI while parked?
I DUI while parked, at least in Montana, is when you're in physical control of the vehicle, but it's not moving. I've had clients who pulled over to the side of the road to grab another beer from the cooler get these, and clients sleeping one off in a parking lot. Usually, the person was under the influence while driving, but law enforcement happened upon them after they were driving while intoxicated.
A friend of mine pulled over and fell asleep in his truck... but he pulled over into a median, not the side of the road. He woke up to a cop shining a light in his face.
He somehow didn't get in trouble for that.
That's one of those many DUIs we deserved but didn't get.
For me.. My vehicle was a few houses down from home. I was in the car with it off, but the keys were in the ignition. Wouldn't let me walk 5 houses home. My mother died 2 days earlier. My experience with police has never been good. I was very drunk and in grief. I didn't help my situation.. my mouth didn't.
Either way, here in Florida, it doesn't matter if the keys are in the ignition or not. He could have arrested me anyway. They will arrest you for sleeping it off in your car if they want around here. I guess that's valid. You have to sleep a whole lot to sober up and your likely to wake up still too intoxicated to drive.
This happened to my friend. The cop said if the car was off and keys were out of the ignition, then she wouldn’t have gotten a dui. But since the car was on and in park, he gave her one. She was parked at my apartment complex too, it was weird.
I got the same. Care and control. I was parked stupidly and sleeping with my music cranked.
I've gotten none, but like most of you I should have gotten many.
I realized at one point that I drank so much at night, I still had very high bac during the day. I found that out because I had to do a breathalyzer during an introductory meeting with a counselor for intensive outpatient that I was starting soon. I blew a 0.32 at 1 in the afternoon. I'd driven myself there, I felt completely normal. That made me figure that I probably wasn't legally sober for maybe the last 2 years that I was a daily drinker, where I was drinking a handle every 2 days.
I deserve to have multiple. Not proud of that at all. Now I proudly DD when my wife wants a drink or two out (shes not like me). I love having the confidence that I can get my family home safe and legally and wont put anyones life at risk by drinking and driving.
Received 1
Definitely deserved 2
Should have received? 10 years times 365 days 😅
Honestly, I’m not sure how many I’ve deserved. I have gotten 1 DUI, and I quit drinking a month after I got it. My personal view now is that nobody should drive even with one drink in their system. So if I apply that view, there are countless times where I’ve met a friend for a 40 and went home after. There’s countless times where I drove friends to the beach in college and brought wine/beer and then drove home. Then when my alcoholism got bad, I always had at least a couple drinks in me at work… I’d meet with execs, have a drink in their office, meet with another customer at lunch and have drinks, then continue my day, etc. So I definitely deserved a lot and I’m not proud of it.
Many. But I got one. Refused the breathalyzer so I have to have an IID for two years (longer than my probation, which I'm done with). I deserved it and many more. I appreciated being put in my place as an alcoholic. The IID in my car has made me mindful, even when I think I'm good. I didn't hurt anyone or have an accident and I thank the universe for that everyday. I didn't do it everyday or anything but I did it way more often than I would be comfortable admitting, and I think a lot of people do!! But I accept, deserve, and need these measures. But I'm also thankful that I went through the therapy and IID. they make me better. I'm not against cars having breathalyzers being de facto in cars, if they work better than intoxalock that is.
3 DUI at 19, 32 and 39. A lifetime of poor choices.
0 vs 0. Proud to say that even with how bad it got, I never got behind the wheel with too much to drink.
Quite a few, but none. The one time I got pulled over I was the DD. Had one beer pregaming. My friends had a.beer apiece in the backseat. He caught one and the other hid his. Cop said you guys probably just got your buddy a DUI. Thankfully he hit me with a speeding ticket. Drove 10 mph under the limit to a 7/11 where we dumped the other beer. It was easy not to drink that night as DD.
My parents were always great about picking me up no questions asked. They probably saved a few even well into adulthood. I’ve made the same pledge to my kids.
Deserved thousands, got 2.
Deserved many, probably over one hundred. Got one.
Being sober and going out for the night to do whatever, and not having the anxiety of a police encounter on the way home, is incredibly liberating.
I've never drove drunk, but I absolutely agree. I can totally drive across town and grab a cheeseburger at 2am! Or run an errand I forgot about. Or, God forbid, drive myself or a loved one in a surprise emergency situation.
Honestly, I would often look at my dog, while drunk as a skunk at 2am and feel tremendous guilt. If he had an emergency, getting him to the emergency vet would've been an issue.
Too many to count vs. 1.
It's been over 20 years. I had every excuse in the book. My dad had recently passed away and I hadn't fully processed that, etc, etc. I remember being in my court-ordered counseling, hearing everyone's pity party about how they were hardly over the legal limit. I was like "I'm here to say that's NOT my story, because I damn near blew a .20".
I had a new boss at work, she ended up being a good boss and better friend but she really had a rocky start. It was just a lot going on.
But to think of how many times I COULD have hurt someone else... I shudder.
This thread is terrifying.
Deserved thousands. Received two.
From age 19-21 I drove drunk probably more than I did sober. I got a dui when I ramped my car through a ditch, hit a telephone pole head on and then rolled my car through the field with my now wife with me. Car caught on fire and the doors were jammed shut so we couldn't get out. I still don't know how we got out... I beat like hell and tried to pry the door open with no luck. All of a sudden I black out and next thing I know my wife and I are both standing outside the car without a scratch on us. My wife can't recall getting out either. That day I started believing in God, that's the most logical solution I could come up with. That's the last time I drove drunk
Good job
1, but I enabled friends to drive by getting in cars with them when they were wasted dozens of times. Scary to think about.
A person from my primary college/young adult friend group got a DUI about 10 years ago (hit a parked car with noone in it, thank god) and I'm fairly confident that event saved a lot of lives, including possibly mine
Deserved maybe 2 or 3, never received any. I wasn't much for drinking and driving but a few foolish times I definitely underestimated my drunkenness or thought "it's the same neighborhood, I'll be fine..."
Probably a hundred before I even turned 21…. Once at age 17, I got pulled over and the officer followed me home (to be sure I made it safely), letting me off with a verbal warning. Wild to think about these days. Proud to say over the last several years, I was really adamant I didn’t drink and drive. Mostly drinking at home or husband there to drive me home. So so so grateful to have never hurt (or killed) anyone during my reckless years.
More than I’ll ever know
Deserved many. No idea how I got away with a few of them.
Got zero. I’ll never put myself or anyone in that position again
I deserved lots. I got zero.
It's disturbing to hazard a guess, considering just 1 time could lead to death and maiming of innocent people. I think in the 100s if not 1000s. I had a 17 year drinking career. I was never caught, plenty of friends were. I am glad that nobody was hurt during my many ill-advised trips. God looked out for them because I was in no state to be operating a heavy machine each time. It makes me feel guilty and grateful all at once.
Got 3 DUIs, totaled 2 cars where I should have died (didn't get DUIs for those) got stopped another 10 or so times and got away with it.
Maybe 1000. Never got one. Gotta give the credit to the Almighty there.
I deserved approximately a few over 3,000. I drove intoxicated for the better part of ten years. Work. Bar. Drunk. Drive. I got one when I was 15 and one at 18. None during my legal drinking age. Sober now.
As the saying goes: You might as well quit while you're ahead! Good luck, and IWNDWYT!
Same, I even had a couple mild car crashes and 1 major one and still managed to avoid a DUI!
I deserve at least a dozen, never got one. But my best friend did, and I ended up driving her to her AA meetings for a few months.
I've never, ever, ever driven drunk thankfully. It's a combination of growing up in the state with one of the highest DD death tolls in the nation, and the fact that I lived in a city where a car is rather impractical and public transportation is the norm.
you honestly shouldn’t be admitting to this in writing on an open internet forum. Pro tip, should keep that to yourself.
That’s what drives me crazy when judges let these repeat DUIs off lightly. Do you think this was the only time? This was the only time they got caught! I guarantee there were many, many more times they DUI’d and got away w it.
Too many to count. The hardest part for me is thinking about who was in the car when I drove drunk. Who I could have killed. I try not to dwell.
IWNDWYT
Soooo lucky to have never gotten one. Drove under the influence many times back then. Even luckier to have never hurt anyone
I should've gotten several hundred but didn't receive one. Hell, I was stopped twice while I was drunk and the officer let me go both times. First when I was 19, last when I was in my forties. TBH, I got away with it then, but karma is undefeated and I'm paying for It now.
I got 2, should have had a lot more.
I deserved hundreds, how many i received 0.
I’m batting 2 for 2000 (at least)
I received one when I was 19 but over the years I would say I deserve that least 100 of them especially when I was living across the country and just partying with my friends. I never got super sloppy except maybe a handful of times but still thankfully nothing bad happened to me or anybody else minusa popped tire
I haven't driven under the influence since Uber came around. But, before that, pretty much every Friday either my wife or I was driving 2 miles (like that justified it) from downtown bars to home. Really stupid choices and we're both luckily we didn't hurt anyone.
Drunk driving was one thing I was always pretty careful to avoid. I never got any DUIs, but I was probably within a point or two of the legal limit on a handful of occasions.
Deserved or legally would have gotten if pulled over? Deserved- probably somewhere around 100. Would have gotten if I had been pulled over- over 3000. Haven't ever gotten one, but I know if I had been pulled over for anything, I would have had a BAC% that even under the limit, would have likely gotten me one or arrested with one to boot. I almost always had booze in the car and open, even if I was under the limit. I was pre-gaming life on a continuous basis.
I’ve had 2 really close calls… First time, I was leaving a concert absolutely smashed and ended up driving the wrong way down a one-way road in the middle of a huge downtown city. Cop pulled me over and I immediately bust out crying bc I thought I was going to jail (pre-sober/narcissistic thinking, I know). I’m still not sure how I talked my way out of it between the sobs, but ended up leaving with directions to my hotel and a “drive safe!” from the cop. Second time, friend and I left a bar hammered and I volunteered to drive (why did I always do this???) and within 20 seconds of leaving the bar, my friend felt nauseas so I stopped in the middle of the road while she was hanging out the passenger door vomiting. Cop simply pulled up next to me, asked if everything was ok, and I said “yes, I’m the DD, just getting my friend home safe” and cop drove away with no further questions. These instances were AFTER my college days, which is when my heaviest drinking/ drunk driving occurred. I hate thinking about the terrible choices I made while on alcohol and am grateful that I did not kill anyone. Also thankful to be more clear-headed now and remember to never do that again. IWNDWYT
Every day when I drank. Pulled over a couple of times (with open containers, alcohol on my breath, field sobriety tests) and talked my way out/got really really lucky. No DUI’s on my record, but they’ve had me dead to rights more than once.
I should have been arrested multiple times, so many times I drove drunk thinking stupidly to myself “I’m a really good drunk driver”, no I was not and I’m thankful I never got pulled over. It’s hard for me to think about that now, not the thought of getting arrested but more the thought of my killing someone while driving.
100s . Caught twice. Ironically on both of mine my car was stationary. I was asleep, parked.
0 cause I don't know how to drive regardless lmao
I deserve thousands but luckily got none. I've been pulled over drunk plenty of times, a few times they knew I was drinking. One time they found a bunch of alcohol in the car and everything. Tbh I don't know how I've been so lucky, I'm not an attractive woman or anything I'm a man
I deserved hundreds. I got one
Deserved? 0 received? Also zero. Though I have been a degenerate drinker, for some reason I always managed to not get behind the wheel. Some reason bleeds through
Definitely 100s. I even hit one of those poles in the gas station with my car while drunk and drove with my side mirror flying in the wind and a huge dent in my car. Then, actually last year, I ended up getting into a fender bender in which I was the offending party (obviously) and the driver called the cops. I was HAMMERED with open bottles in the car and to this day I have no idea how I didn’t get arrested. Honestly that was God because the cop barely looked twice at me. I was POSITIVE I was going to get arrested for DUI, I begged the guy not to call the cops.
0 DUIs but I felt my luck running out by the end of it. Luckily I am a year sober now.
Deserved thousands never received one nor did I have any accidents. I once did a U turn about half mile as I approached a sobriety checkpoint and was fortunate to avoid pursuit.
By the letter of the law - low thousands. By the standard of “you were a fucking idiot and had absolutely no business driving at all” - several dozens, likely more than a hundred. This is because I was able to walk to the local bar and didn’t drive to drinking events as much as a result.
Probably a few dozen.
Zero received.
Received: 3 Deserved: Thousands
Took 4 years to get my license back after the last one…
IWNDWYT
Easily hundreds. I almost never did the open container thing though. In my 30 year "career" I could probably count on one hand the number of times I did that. I had standards apparently. 😂
Deserved? Thousands. I had a specific "driving drink". Used to drink every day on my commute home. Never got a DUI, somehow...
I remember one Thanksgiving pulled over into a closed business. 1/5th on the front passenger for opened. I pulled over because I knew I couldn't make it to my destination. Shut the car off, woke up to cop knocking on the window. He took my keys, poured out the bottle, and told me to walk to the station when I sobered up. I had to be at work at 4 am. Walked there, still half drunk, got the keys, and went to work. I think about this and still think an injustice was served
There’s 365 days in a year…Times that by 10.
100’s deserved, received zero. Got super lucky, but I’m disgusted by my behavior.
None but deserved literally thousands. Drove drunk almost every single day for years and years
1000, 0
100s, got 1. The one that got me is i drove home from the bar, just 5 min away, pulled into the parking lot, and passed out before getting to the parking spot. Bar closed at 2am, arrest showed 5:30, so i'm basically asleep in my car for 3 hours and had drifted to a stop against the curb. Never hurt anyone, but the whole ordeal scared me straight. Never passed out driving before, won't even get close again.
My car was FUCKED up in the days after I drove it 120+ mph down my country road absolutely blitzed. I cannot believe I did that.
Zero duis on record. At least 200 deserved. I’ve been tapering…. Trying to do less and less drinking but damn, I gotta quit this altogether. Been following this sub for a few months, but checking in daily on it for a few weeks. This place has kept me sober for day one and day two countless times. I want a day three, ….soon.
Got 1. Deserved about an hundred over a good 20 years or so.
My HP was definitely protecting me, no DUIs or wrecks.
But I should have been caught in someway many many many many times.
I only say this to be accountable. I should have had my kids taken away from me simply for how many times I drove with them while at the same time drinking. Or drunk. Most of the time, both.
I regularly drove to carpool to pick up my kids at school completely blasted. I cant even remember picking them up many times. 800 innocent kids milling about everywhere. Makes me get all anxious thinking about it.
How I was never stopped or questioned is beyond me.
My last drunk involved me driving my kids and someone else’s kids in my care, blacked out drunk. I cannot recall the entire day.
I was leaving a "kegger" party years ago and i was super wasted but thought hey i could make it home, i thought no cops no cars, its a rural area with gravel roads near state land, no road lights, dark and super curvy. No problem right? Being drunk i thought, i'm an excellent driver, speed up a little, maybe i could drift a little, then bam hairpin corner, my car slid out and i slammed the brakes, went into what i thought was a ditch, tried to back out, no deal stuck, i get out of the car and realize i'm in total darkness! Like i can't see my hand in front of my face darkness and drunk as hell.
I'm like 20 miles to the nearest house, so i start walking back toward the party, i start to see a faint glow through the woods and think hey shortcut from the road, this will save time, this was a very bad idea and lucky in a way, in going off the road, i missed the sheriff, in turn i run into a god awful sticker bush swamp, muddy, stinging nettles, blackberry bushes, devil's clubs as i learned the hard way. It was such a struggle to get 50 ft though this hell swamp in complete darkness with just a glint of a fire to guide me.
I was falling down over logs and stumps, thrashed by berry bushes, spiderwebs in my face. it was a nightmare, i longed for the road again but i was too deep in and too blind to go back. it felt like a purgatory i deserved for being drunk and stupid. i wanted to give up and sleep, but i kept crawling toward the flame. through muck like an insect, 2 hours later i finally made it back the party, all muddy sweaty, bug bitten, small cuts all over my hands but i so glad to be out of the dark green hell.
The remaining people did not look happy to see me, and said the sheriff found your car and towed it away and he told people to go home. i had brought them unwanted attention, so i felt guilty about that as i slept on the dirt, no supplies. I finally got someone to give me a ride to town and on the way back i saw my car skid tracts, i was about a foot away from going off a 200 ft drop with no seat belt, the guy said whoa you almost died!.. I feel like such a fool looking back.
1 and 1, I turned out of the parking spot and boom
What a question! 52 days since my last swig of hooch. I should have had a hundred. I only got one. When I finally stopped putting quarters in the ass kicking machine and sobered up, I had a strong intuition that my luck was running dry and God was only going to protect for so long. I came to terms, got help and in a program and have a sponsor who has been around the block. I got pulled over (sober) a few weeks ago and it was traumatizing. My heart was beating out of my chest. I thought , "man 2 months ago I would have been absolutely screwed." Back to my DUI in 2016. I had to file bankruptcy and borrowed money from a friend to get my a/c replaced because it broke down in the middle of a Tennessee summer. It was the most humiliating thing I've ever experienced. Did that stop me? No. It took another 8 years to come to terms that I can't drink normally, dodging the ninjas of the Tennessee Highway patrol and many hungover days and Many many regrets.
Edit. I payed my friend back. He let me pay him back weekly. He's very wealthy and it was a drop in the bucket, but God bless him for his generosity. I hope one day to be so financially stable I can help a friend in need. Yall have a happy and safe 4th
Thankful I only ever drove 3 times when I knew it wasn’t a good idea. Even more thankful nobody was hurt.
Deserved probably around 5. Received none. What a relief
None! Thank goodness I didn't hurt anyone or worse. I drove a stick shift, and I swore that was the reason my drunk driving skills were superb since I had to make the effort or the car wouldn't move. So dumb of me. I did have one bad accident, me and a tree, and that was enough. But no, dui, because I dodged it somehow.
100s maybe 1000s….got 1. Strangely enough it was way early. I was 21
Prison
- I don’t drive
I have to say, this post and its comments scare the living shit out of me.
Received: 0. Deserve: Still 0. I'm just kidding, I should be in prison.
Deserved? I’d say 10 easy.
Had? 1, and I definitely didn’t deserve that one.
Live and learn, get better.
A fuck ton.... 2....going on 11 years sober now since June 16
3 incidents with cops being pulled over after drinking and I was let go every time. I have no idea why they let me off other than the fact I wasn’t belligerent and I am young white female and blonde. I have not driven after drinking since I was 27 and now 31.
I deserved hundreds and got zero. Super grateful for that. My sponsor got 3 in 18 months. IWNDWYT.
None, but I deserved at least 3, the only time I've been pulled over in my life was for running an unexisting stop sign (someone stole it), but I still got pulled over and I just smoked weed so the car smelled like weed and I got a big ticket, I didn't have any weed in the car so that saved me from going to jail lol
I won't let myself cross the line to drink and drive. It only takes one time to ruin someone's life, whether it's your own or an innocent person's. I'd rather walk a mile or two to the store if I've had a drink and want to grab another.
Art of myvduties invkuded was a frontline worker fueling aircraft. Occasionally got selected to alcohol test. Could drive the company vehicle to the next town, test and fail (anything over .02) then legally drive home (under .08) and go back to work driving equipment.
Fun part was our boss days in advance of the "random" check
Got zero. Deserved about 6. One night pulled a U turn on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywoodish - driving over the raised median in my super fancy 1972 FORD LTD BROUGHAM. I mean, at least I remember doing it so there’s that as mitigating how drunk I really was. Oh, then as a teen - first time drinking champagne - and I got out of my car while I was still driving … passenger scooted over to driver’s side to put the breaks on. 30 years in between those two irresponsible landmarks: the other 4 occasions were mild tipsy trips to a 7/11 for … wait for it … more wine. I voluntarily gave up driving 7 years ago and just use Uber now even though I rarely drink anymore. Alcohol made me fat, bloated and depressed and I wanted to be skinny, pretty and happy 😃 🤷🏼♀️
Deserved - in the 100s. Received 0. Very lucky.
I know a guy who once drove sober 5 times in 2 years.
I deserved all of them but I never got caught. Thank god I’m sober now.
At least a dozen. I got none.
Deserve 10,000 Received 5 or 6
I am dealing with one now, ironically I wasn't even driving the car they gave me one off assumptions.
I refused to drive after a certain time most of the time. Still probably deserved over 150 though I never got any. Got a flashback once of me swerving uncontrollably city center at 3am-ish. Was a cold shower. No idea how I never hit anyone tbh. Other drivers must be really good
Somehow, I'm 0 for about 5000... I haven't ever driven when I was wasted, but I woulda failed the breathalyzer many, many times.
Never received one. I should have. I did it 3-4 times before it started to become second nature.
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