Since the thread titled 'Dumb' started to dissolve into drinking tales, I thought it would be better to start one for that subject. And I want to make it clear I am not trying to glorify or justifying drinking and driving. It's just the way it was back then. At the time I came of age in the late '70's / early 80's, drinking and driving wasn't looked down upon in society with the seriousness that it deserved. And thank goodness our attitudes have changed! I can re-call many instances that we would get pulled over by the police, who knew us well. :Brow: One such instance was at night, and for some reason that I don't recall at the moment, my friend was behind the wheel of my '72 Cutlass. Not only did he not have the headlights on, he rolled through a stop sign. A policeman pulled us over and the conversation went down like this. Cop: "Your not Dale!" Freind: "Nope, he's over there" Me: "Hey whats up?" Cop: "You guys been drinking?" Us:"Yup!":beer Cop: "Are you drunk yet?" Us: "Nope!" Cop: (now shining flashlight around inside car) "Is that weed I smell?" Us, laughing "NAWWW!!" :bglasses: Cop: "Well.... put the beer in the trunk, turn your headlights on, and watch those stop signs!!!" ou: Another time we were in my friends '70 Riv which for reasons I won't go into didn't have license plates. So, I borrowed the plates off my Mustang. (Yes, a Rustang) We got pulled over, and let go. The next morning I'm driving the Riv when one of the cops from the night before spotted me, pulled me over and questioned me on the plates. He said after we left the night before he turned to his partner and said:"That wasn't a Mustang was it?":laugh: At that point the Riv was promptly impounded.
I drove drunk ONCE. In the convertible. Filled with friends. I drove about 50 miles that night, to two different parties, and three different bars. I couldn't remember where I dropped off my last friend even before I got home. Luckily I dropped everyone off at the right house, didn't hurt anyone or any property (or the car), and didn't get within a mile of any police. I'm told I was the classic drunk driver: swerving, speeding up, slowing down, etc. The next day, my best friend (a girl) slapped the holy Christ out of me in front of my friends. That was easily my most important lesson in life. I deserved it. I have not driven drunk since that day in 1993 (I was 22 at the time). There is actually a funny version of that story, but it's not appropriate. I love the Burt Reynolds' movies from the '70s, where drunk driving seems a game. But it's a movie, not real life. I'm not saying you're doing something wrong by telling the story, Dale. You said you're not glorifying it, and I see no reason not to believe you. But let's have just drinking stories instead, OK? Like the time I shook off the flu by drinking half a fifth of JD (I weigh 145 lbs), realised I could NEVER walk down the stairs to my room (cellar dweller) and just jumped down the stairs because it was safer. uzzled: Or the time I stole the shoes from a girl at one of my parties, filled it with water, and hid it in the freezer. Or the time I played dead when I didn't want to talk to someone any more. I was barbecuing dinner one summer afternoon, with a pint of gin and tonic....quack quack quack...boy I don't want to talk to this girl anymore...so I just keeled over backwards and lay there in the grass with my eyes open and my tongue out until she went away...later on, I was best man at her wedding, so you can IMAGINE how pissed her boyfriend (my cousin) was with me that day...it was a laugh riot, though.
This reminds me of driving around one night in Jan[in Cleve,OH snowing]in a 65 Lemans convert[with the top down:grin: ].No we werent driking:grin: :grin: .That was 10 or so years ago[I wasnt driving]The things we did when we were young. Keith
That's cool. I agree with you Chris. After I posted this thread I questioned my judgement in doing so. :spank: And if a moderator were to delete it I wouldn't be offended in the least. Can the person who posts a thread delete it?
Delete what? that was then, this is now. and by the way you never admitted to inhaling did you?uzzled: Bruce
O.K. how about the time my friend and I were out drinking and then we... uh nope not that one, I got one now, I'm cruising along at 85mph and then.... Nope still pending litigation, My time spent in College, it was four yrs. and uh what was I thinking?uzzled: So the Cops pull me over an I tell him, Nope that's the time I ran!! I'm sleeping in my car at the stop light and ... to embarrssing. It was snowing like hell and I'm holding one hand over my good eye and then all of a sudden this plow truck...Uh Nope again, I think there's still a warrant out! All in fun guy's, if you drink don't drive, and please be safe, we wanna see you at the next race/show event. Bruce:beer :laugh:
OK I have to write something but first I want it clear to everyone that I dont drink any alcohol for over 8 years. If you really want to know why email me sometime I will tell you about my new life. OK Story........ About 1986 or so I had my wifes Aqua mist 70 stage1 out and 5 of us went to KC about 70 miles from home to go to a friends house to check out his 4 speed stage 1 convert. Well a few beers lead to another and then we end up in a bar and then we all get kicked out being to rowdy:Brow: :Brow: Well on the way home I decided that i should be home before 3 and it was 230am:eek2: :eek2: On the turnpike I stepped it up to 4500 rpm with 275 60s and a 342 I was humming right along and with 5 drunk idiots in the car I was climbing up on a car way ahead and someone says "hey whats it say on the back of that car ahead??" OH CRAP HIGHWAY PATROL!!!!!:eek2: :eek2: :spank: I jam on the brakes front end almost hit the ground, I had the car down to 60 in no time!! Then the brakelights came on the KHP car so I slowed down some more. Now we are doing 50 then 40. I was in the hammerlane and he was on the slow lane. As we started to pass the exit at Lawrence I let him get passed the ramp and I was about 500 feet behind yet and as I got to the exit he saw me hit the signal and exit VERY quickly!!! As I hammered it to get off the exit he had the flashy lights on and was backing up to come get me!!! I had exact change for the toll and we escaped into Lawrence taking several turns left and right !!!ou: :eek2: MAN I was sure glad my GS had the power to haul butt!!!!! BTW I was home about 430am!!
I used to have an 84 K5 Silverado Blazer as my winter driver. It was lifted 8" with 36" ground hawgs at the time. I went camping with a few of my friends this past summer and to get to the lake where we camp requires a 30 mile trek off road in the old coal pits. So as soon as I leave the asphalt I open the cooler and start slamming beers. Ive got Pantera blaring on the stereo and not a care in the world. In one way or another I made it the whole way down the trail to the capsite and we preoceed to drink beer until the sun comes up. I stumbled over to my blazer to get another pack of smokes and I happened to glance at the side of it. Its got a huge scrap/dent the whole way down the passenger side from where I slid a little sideways going up the hill after crossing the creek. ou: Turns out my buddy who was following me in his old Jeep J10 pick up did the exact same thing to his passenger side. Never drove trashed on the street though. Speaking of which, the blazer is now retired to a being a farm truck after going out drunk with a few of my friends and doing donuts in a corn feild. I hit a hidden gopher hole or something with the right rear tire and it went up on its right side, I cut the wheel right to try to drive out of it and I just couldnt save it. It went up on its side , then up on the roof for a second, then back to the side. The roll bar and seat belts saved out lives. I went out an hout later with the fork lift and flipped her back over and drove it home.:af: ________ LIVE SEX
