I don't understand why people think they can do this

I stick to Pepsi and water lol

 

Do you really want to hear the answer to that???

 

Drunks dont care what the law says. Brother in law is living proof. He no longer has license, and thinks he is Gods gift to man. Still gets caught for OUI. Still the state wont lock him up as he hasnt killed anyone yet.

 

We've fired cashiers at our retail business for being intoxicated on the job and drinking at work. I can't imagine giving a driver permission to drive while waiting for court. He's already proven he has exceptionally poor judgement and disregard for the rules. None of my three drivers are drinkers, I'm the worst of the lot, but I reserve it for weekends and a minimum of 24 hours between bottle and throttle.

 

he replied already.

 

We had a driver spot one of our trucks in an impound yard one year.. He called in, my boss called the tow yard.. The driver got in a sort of high speed chase in the truck.. after they got him pulled over, they found him drunk... and had an ice chest full of beer in the truck.. He was in jail and I guess used the first phone call to a lawyer, cause it sure wasn't to one of us.

 

I loved to drink back in my days.

I would get off my parasail boat after 10 hours out in the saltwater and sun and the first 2 cold Michelob lights would evaporate with in minutes.

And if another customer walked up after I cracked a beer I told them they were a minute too Late.



I wasn’t lazy. Just no way no how I was going to risk my livelihood after alcohol.

I barely drink much these days but my saying back in the day but I still couldn’t even begin to ever think it would be acceptable to get behind the wheel of a semi after having just 1 beer.

All the Bad Drunks giving us Good Drunks a bad name.

I have lost a few friends and employees to drunk driving.

 

Most of us have known an alcoholic at some point in our lives. There are several levels of alcoholism and the highest or worst level appears to be what this driver had. The most common alcoholic only drinks in the evening or perhaps has a few drinks at lunch. They're not fall down drunk but it's obvious they have a buzz going. It's the ones who start drinking from the moment they wake up, until the time they pass out at night that are the people who have absolutely no control, no good judgement and zero good common sense when it comes to being concerned with other people on the road that might be injured by their reckless driving.

Most of us metabolize alcohol through our liver in around 10 hours, and then it's mostly out of our system. The hard core alcoholics go into violent withdraws usually around 8 hours after their last drink. They get the shakes like a person with Parkinson's disease, and the only way to stop it from happening is to keep a high level of alcohol in their bloodstream at all times. A lot of the time we know or have met these people, and have no idea that they're drunk. Many function at a normal level because they're constantly medicating themselves usually with vodka and don't smell like alcohol. It's those times when they over drink and black out, or get behind the wheel that we find out about it. These are the people who need to be in jail before they kill themselves or somebody else. Not as a punishment, but as a means of forced detox. Without being locked up, they will never be able to quit on their own.

I had a favorite uncle die from alcoholism when I was 10 years old. He was a great guy, but couldn't control his drinking. There were stories of him passing out behind the wheel and driving 20 miles on the shoulder of the highway passed out then waking up, or the time the airline dropped his bags too hard and broke the bottles of booze inside. He would pass out face down into his plate of food at dinner time, and he would never accept any kind of help. His death shaped my attitude about drinking, and to this day I rarely have more than a beer once a month.

 

I had an uncle like yours. Pilot, crop duster and firebomber. Decorated B-17 pilot in WW2. Great guy but he drank all day because if he didn't he'd fall apart. I worked with him a lot and I never saw him obviously impaired. Vodka drinker. He and my Dad were close and Dad kept an eye on him when he could. We all covered for him. We didn't know what else to do. I don't know how he would have flown sober because he never really was. I know he wouldn't carry passengers because we had a lot of charter work and he stuck with the single pilot stuff.
He reached the point, as do many alcoholics, where the doctors told him that if he continued to drink he'd die. He tried rehab several times but never completed a program.
We were working a fire east of Willows. He came in to reload and after he loaded he taxied a little ways and then stopped. I came in behind him and loaded and he was still sitting there. That was unusual because you'd usually just load and return. He wouldn't answer his radio. One of the loaders went over to check on him but he was dead. Heart attack probably. When we were getting him out of the airplane a pint of vodka fell out of his vest pocket.
My Dad, my other uncle, my two brothers and I all did a lot of "what if" and "why didn't we" and "maybe we could have..." looking for some way that we could have made a difference in his behavior.
Time and experience have shown me that there wasn't really anything we could have done that would have made any difference. That's the most tragic part.