Griff
Well-Known Member
Sorry...I was ..(hic) at da bar trying to steady my nerves for the ride home
I don't know what to do with this one. Someone with 3 dwi's asking about a driving job sounds bizzarre. Why isn't he in jail?
I don't think the requirements for a driving job are spelled out in the contract could be wrong. Thought UPS set the standards. I'll have to pull my contract out. Unlike my goon buddies I don;t keep one at home.
The drunk driving issue is an interesting one that we keep fooling ourselves into believing can be controlled.
A person can go to a bar and order an alcoholic beverage. Most sell hard liquor.
Drinking alocoholic beverages impairs your decision making process.
So you make a decision to drink too much.
The bartender makes a couple of bucks an hour and heavily relies on tips. So she will not cut you off unless you fall flat on your face. She may even hook you up with a free drink or two via samples or whatever.
You then drive drunk.
The person who wants to avoid the drunk drivng trap stays away from the bar.
If we really want to fix drunk driving then we should probably close the bars , but we know that won't happen. Or we should make bars enforce a two or three drink limit on every patron.
But instead we keep allowing people to drive to a bar, drink all night and drive home and wonder why we have a problem.
Close the bars?
Enforce a two or three drink limit?
I thought you were a staunch Republican Capitalist there Tieguy? What's wrong, a couple thousand deaths a year is finally too high a price to pay for corporate, state and government profit?
I find this hypocritical coming from people (not just Tieguy in this thread) who openly support George W. Bush and the Iraq war. Hey guys, freedom aint free -- liquor licenses, the commercial taxes and the liquor itself are just part of what makes this great country go round. Death for profit is the American way, doesn't matter who you are, get on board or get out.