Having a drink to calm the nerves is one thing, but spending several minutes taking shots of vodka before a date sounds like straight-up alcoholic behavior. Unless OP is greatly exaggerating, she’d either already have a massive tolerance or end up a drunken mess in front of her date, which would probably be much worse than a case of the nerves.
Rough date
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jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sundray@lemmus.org 1 day ago
If I knew my date hand just taken five shots in short order the first thing I’d probably ask them is, “Can I call you a cab?”
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not a cab… YOUR A CAB… whatsh werz we tulking abit
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
I’d go shot for shot with her and we’d have a fucking blast.
Bunch of fucking virgins in here.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What if you had also taken five shots?
The plot thickens.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
To be fair they said “5 minuts” but did not give a number of shots.
“s” implies at least 2, leaving some wiggle room that they where not accustomed to strong liquor and had trouble getting It down. 2 of them because they underestimate the effect of just one.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They also said “chugging,” which is almost certainly an exaggeration to some degree, but it certainly implies more than two, IMO.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You don’t “pound” 2 shots. I feel like that’s a 4-5 shot minimum.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You don’t “pound” 2 shots. I feel like that’s a 4-5 shot minimum.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m pretty resistant to alcohol and numbing medications. I could do two double shots and just barely have the edge taken off.
Of course, I’d not even consider drinking to ease nerves, and there’s no f’ing way I’d be doing shots in my car; that’s a great way to get a DUI in most places.
echodot@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
You’re not even supposed to have alcohol within arms reach. Technically they can pull you over for having it on the back seat although I’m not sure how they would notice that.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Sounds very much like she was driven by a friend…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Much worse for him.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ahhhh…
The 'Murican attitude that it’s ok to drink and drive…
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yup, people in, say, Eastern Europe or South Africa never drink and drive. Hell, even Canada has higher mortality rate than the U.S. for drunk driving.
I get that it’s fashionable to shit on America (and like 99% of time it’s justified), and I will not go as far as to say there is no drunk driving problem here (cause of course there is), but it’s not an “American attitude”
Teepo@sh.itjust.works 49 minutes ago
Your link does not say that Canada has a higher mortality rate than the US for drunk driving. It says that drunk driving is responsible for a slightly higher percentage of motor vehicle fatalities (34% compared to 31%). Given that the US has three times as many traffic fatalities per capita, this means that the US has almost three times the mortality rate for drunk driving as compared to Canada.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
And if anything drinking culture has become less popular do to cannabis recreation legalization in about half of all states.
ddplf@szmer.info 9 hours ago
Bro don’t try to fool me, I watched Ray Donovan so I know how bad it is!
Tiral@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
She didn’t drive, she’s sitting in a parked car. But sure, America is bad because of a random story that is probably made up. Where do you live that’s perfect, I’d love to move there.
the_flying_pig@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s safe to assume that if she drove to the place of the date, she planned driving home as well.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Yeah, seems pretty clear that the drinking was done in a parked car after getting to the place they were supposed to meet. So not really.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And then they teleported back to homes <3
FatVegan@leminal.space 12 hours ago
What are you supposred to do?? Walk? Not drink? Insanity
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think the obvious thing to do is to make up stories on the internet
dan1101@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
30 years ago it was more of a “no harm, no foul” attitude. People would regularly drive around while actively drinking and mostly were not bothered.
Then organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving did a lot of lobbying and got politicians to make more laws and police to actively enforce them.
Now the blood alcohol limits before you can be arrested for DUI are fairly low.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Drunk drivers hurt other people because of their selfish stupidity
You’re fucking dense
Typical fucking yank. “I’m fine, so fuck everyone else” while being too stupid to know that you’re not fine.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
And drunk driving deaths are also down.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I, too, always keep an open bottle of vodka in my car, accessible from the driver’s seat. It’s just common sense.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
Of course! You dont want to be fumbling around god knows where for that shit! Its unsafe.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly, that’s why I keep it right next to my loaded pistol and bag of oxy
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You can put it in a water bladder and strap it to the sun visor. Now you have a handy straw and then it’s as simple as taking a sip whenever you feel your vision go unblurry
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
So when the cops stop you, you can take a swig right in front of them. Then they can’t prove you were drunk before that and can’t give you a DUI
echodot@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
I like to take a shot every time I see a black car, gets me ready for work in the morning.
masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The vast majority of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Thank you for doing your part to keep our roads safe!
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
I also sit in the parking lot before a date just staring at people in the cars next to me.
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A fifth of vodka, a loaded & unregistered pistol, a crack pipe, and a photo album of me walking by adorable dogs and not stopping to offer pets.
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Not offering pets
You might as well have a child in the trunk at that point, you monster.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No meth pipe? No videos of you putting kittens in dumpsters? Fucking amateur
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 19 hours ago
Dating is fine. Alcoholism is tough.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yup, dating didn’t make her drink. Also I wouldn’t want to date someone who can’t function without alcohol.
erev@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Theres a difference between “i need to drink before socializing” and “i may not have dated in a while and a buzz would help calm the nerves”. theres plausoble explanation for this.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
My only proper post-bar one night stand, we got to my place, and the girl pulled out of her purse the largest bottle of vodka seemingly imaginable. It was like some disturbing Mary Poppins shit and really was an appropriate sign of everything that followed.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Did she put it in your butthole?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
No, that was a different girl, whole other thing. It just escalated quickly for a guy who isn’t super the taking girls who from the beeeest honky tonk in Utah type. It’d all sound made up, but it’s just how it accidentally happened. But I’m not divulging mostly because it’d probably be super vanilla to you freaks. (jk kind of)
SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub 1 day ago
Sort of reminds me of the time my friend fixed me up with a friend of his partner.
OK its not the same but we met up at a nice chinese restaurant in amsterdam and I immediately found my date very hot. We had chemistry right away! When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.
Turned out she is a flight attendant for klm and her purse was full of them!
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Normalize committing societal faux pas and crimes on dates! Sounds like it was an incredibly fun time!
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
My now-wife hid me from police one of the first times we hung out, couldn’t agree more!
SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub 1 day ago
Yeah it was a wild for certain!
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have not been on too many first dates, but I usually try to find something moderately illegal to set the vibe.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Are you George Clooney from the 2009 comedy/romance Up in the Air?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Yes.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.
Marriage Material
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
So, is your wife single or what?
GhostFace@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I see nothing wrong with this. I cannot function in some social settings without a little bit of liquor. Just half a can of white claw is enough to open me up somewhat.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I mean it’s meant to be funny, but in reality ½ a can of white claw and doing shots for 5 minutes are two very different things. Alcohol in volume is not a good anxiety remedy. Get help if you need to get drunk for social settings to be tolerable because becoming an alcoholic will make your life much, much worse.
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
yeah i mean we’ve all been there but the op is straight up textbook abuse
ZMoney@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The polite thing to do in this instance is to get on her level by pounding your own set of shots.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Power move: pound her shots.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Pre gaming it is a must in today’s economy anyway. Sounds like she had a good idea but rolled a nat 1 in the execution.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Where are young people supposed to even meet each other anymore? JFC the only place they’re allowed to be overtly sexual is the bar, where it’s expensive now. Dating websites suck now and if you approach anyone anywhere else, you’re a creep?
God damn no wonder we have a dwindling population. The only safe options are rich and asexual.
/yells at cloud
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes”
Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes.”
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Absolutely love these “real life” women
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Probably my closest real life example to this was I had a breakfast date, but I ended up getting pretty drunk at a party the night before and showed up still drunk :(
I felt like an ass.
We went on a few more dates but then she suddenly stopped texting me. She messaged me like 2 months later and said there was a death in her family and she was sorry, but we didn’t set up any dates after that.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was a rollercoaster of a story with a disappointing end.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It was disappointing, I did really like her!
But it’s okay, I like my now wife more than I liked her.
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
*dramatic
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 day ago
You were the distraction, and that is ok
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
What do you mean?
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
*Dating is rough only for guys
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 57 minutes ago
the act of getting a date might be easier for women, but the chances of the date going well are not higher.
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
Getting a date is a lot harder for a guy.
Meeting up with unknown dudes met on the Internet is a lot riskier for a woman.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok but if you’re nervous, presumably there’s an expectation that it might not go well…and then you’ll want to leave…in your car…while all that vodka seeps into your brain.
velma@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Someone who openly drinks while they’re sitting in the driver’s seat can get a DUI from that alone. They aren’t caring about driving drunk, I’d wager.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
So she loosened up on her own dime, and all I have to do now is convince a drunk girl I’m sexy? Sounds like I hit the lottery.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Reminds me of a first date where I arrived at the bar to find her with her friend, polishing off their second pitcher of margarita. They showed up an hour early to get absolutely smashed. The server came over and gave me a look that screamed, “Run away and don’t look back.” It was a fun date, but a very short relationship.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 day ago
My date would be over if i saw that they are an alcoholic who drink and drive
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Good luck getting laid in rural areas lol
socsa@piefed.social 1 day ago
Keeper/10
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Whats a bumble date?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
She sounds fun!
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He totally would not have noticed that she was completely smashed.
tio_bira@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
If was me, she already would have some points in advantage since vodka is my drink of choice…