I, too, always keep an open bottle of vodka in my car, accessible from the driver’s seat. It’s just common sense.
Rough date
Submitted 1 month ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 1 month ago
Of course! You dont want to be fumbling around god knows where for that shit! Its unsafe.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly, that’s why I keep it right next to my loaded pistol and bag of oxy
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 month 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
masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The vast majority of accidents are caused by sober drivers. Thank you for doing your part to keep our roads safe!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I like to take a shot every time I see a black car, gets me ready for work in the morning.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Not offering pets
You might as well have a child in the trunk at that point, you monster.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No meth pipe? No videos of you putting kittens in dumpsters? Fucking amateur
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
I also sit in the parking lot before a date just staring at people in the cars next to me.
SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub 1 month 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 month ago
Normalize committing societal faux pas and crimes on dates! Sounds like it was an incredibly fun time!
SanderZeldenthuis@nord.pub 1 month ago
Yeah it was a wild for certain!
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have not been on too many first dates, but I usually try to find something moderately illegal to set the vibe.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
My now-wife hid me from police one of the first times we hung out, couldn’t agree more!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month ago
So, is your wife single or what?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you George Clooney from the 2009 comedy/romance Up in the Air?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
Yes.
crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Dating is fine. Alcoholism is tough.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Did she put it in your butthole?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month 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)
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ahhhh…
The 'Murican attitude that it’s ok to drink and drive…
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
And if anything drinking culture has become less popular do to cannabis recreation legalization in about half of all states.
ddplf@szmer.info 1 month ago
Bro don’t try to fool me, I watched Ray Donovan so I know how bad it is!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
And then they teleported back to homes <3
Tiral@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
It’s safe to assume that if she drove to the place of the date, she planned driving home as well.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 month ago
What are you supposred to do?? Walk? Not drink? Insanity
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think the obvious thing to do is to make up stories on the internet
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
And drunk driving deaths are also down.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month ago
Absolutely love these “real life” women
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 month ago
That was a rollercoaster of a story with a disappointing end.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
*dramatic
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 month ago
You were the distraction, and that is ok
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
What do you mean?
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month 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.
sydd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not sure about every state, but as far as I know that would just constitute an open container. You would have to be over the legal limit with a breathalyzer or blood draw, or fail a roadside sobriety test to receive a DUI charge.
Again, every state/country is different
Donebrach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As an alcoholic… that lady is an alcoholic.
But could totally be a meet-cute for a really bad manga that runs for 74 chapters and then just vanishes.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, the fact she already had the bottle in the car…
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 month ago
My date would be over if i saw that they are an alcoholic who drink and drive
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Good luck getting laid in rural areas lol
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
She may have planned to cab back, it’s unclear from the story
ChexMax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s why she waited until arriving to drink? And then presumably the date lasts a few hours over which she sobers up?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Power move: pound her shots.
socsa@piefed.social 1 month ago
Keeper/10
GhostFace@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Whats a bumble date?
tio_bira@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If was me, she already would have some points in advantage since vodka is my drink of choice…
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
She sounds fun!
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
*Dating is rough only for guys
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
He totally would not have noticed that she was completely smashed.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
sundray@lemmus.org 1 month 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 month ago
I’m not a cab… YOUR A CAB… whatsh werz we tulking abit
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nerd!
/$
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What if you had also taken five shots?
The plot thickens.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
I’d go shot for shot with her and we’d have a fucking blast.
Bunch of fucking virgins in here.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 month 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 month ago
You don’t “pound” 2 shots. I feel like that’s a 4-5 shot minimum.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You don’t “pound” 2 shots. I feel like that’s a 4-5 shot minimum.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Sounds very much like she was driven by a friend…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Much worse for him.