Just two will do
Plod are once again doing one of their drink driving campaigns.
They want us to abstain from drinking and driving over the St Patrick’s season [I remember when St Patrick’s Day was just one day – ah for the good old days].
Are they fucking serious? Paddy’s Day is traditionally a day when we celebrate the national saint by necking as many pints as possible and may the Devil take the hindmost. In the Good Old Days if you didn’t drink then on Paddy’s Day you stayed well off the roads as you’d never know what state other drivers were in.
Anyhows, Plod has come up with some “startling statistics”.
One in ten drivers have reported getting behind the wheel of a car in the last 12 months after consuming alcohol
Okay, so the other nine lied. It’s what you do. None of their fucking business.
One in four believe it is okay to drink and drive if the journey is short.
I suppose it depends on the journey. Five miles on back roads in the country or one mile through suburbia dodging lunatic taxi drivers and drunken cyclists? Any Irishman worth his salt will have quiet back-roads picked out where he is least likely to be breathalysed. I know the back roads here like the back of my hand and I have never seen a patrol on any of them.
Some Garda was on the news last night imploring us to “be sensible”. It was the same old killjoy message they trot out before any holiday. At one point, presumably to scare the pants off us, he announced that “a driver had been caught over the limit every hour over the last holiday”. Well my reaction is fair fucking play to that driver for sheer persistence, though next time he goes on a long pub-crawl maybe he should plan his routes a bit better? I would suggest he sues the Gardaí for harassment.
Does anyone remember a campaign they ran some years ago – “Just two will do” or words to that effect? Those were the sensible days of tolerance and the police had considerable discretion. Nanny didn’t like that. Now it’s zero tolerance.
I shall not be drink-driving for a while. It’s not some reaction to the Nanny State.
It’s just that I prefer to have my tipple at home.
It’s cheaper too.
Click bait, you naughty man.
When I read your post heading I thought it would be about conjugal matters, or genders.
Regarding the driving after drinking, was a time separation specified? Some joker could have answered that he remembered having a wee drap back in 1962, but does not remember much after that.
You just have a dirty mind.
There was no mention of a time limit. I suppose it’s like smoking? If you ever tried a fag behind the bicycle shed then you are classed as a smoker.