He's a leaf on the wind. A drunken leaf.

[TinkTanker]

When I was young and stupid, I acted young and stupid. About halfway home I can remember promising God that if I got home okay I'd never do it again. He guided me home safely and I've kept my end of the deal as well. I do not remember leaving the party, I do not remember getting home, but I do remember making that promise.

[Rosie]

  

Maybe he learned something. Let the sober girl drive. 

[AdmiralDigby]

I've done young and stupid ( and loved it ) but these days I just don't bother driving if I've had more than a few .

Unfortunately we have MADD up here and they're aiming for zero tolerance .

As a person who tends bar I find that position to be obnoxious .
As a patron I find it doubly so .

.08 is the legal limit .
Unless you're lower .

Make sense ?

[Eric]

In Missouri (and perhaps other states?), the bartender holds some legal responsibility if a patron drinks too much and gets in a wreck, and the bar can be sued.

While he may or may not hold a moral duty to cut someone off, making it legal just seems ... wrong.

On a quick Google, it looks like Missouri revised her dram shop laws so that the patron must be "significantly uncoordinated physical action or significant physical dysfunction."  Which, I suppose, is better.

Missouri also has done many alcohol checkpoints, which some have argued are unconstitutional (guilty until proven innocent). Not sure if that's still the case -- they were very big in the 80s when MADD was making their big push down here.

In high school, my buddies and I would go out weekly and cruise a back country road for hours, drinking and jamming to tunes.  I wouldn't dare do that now. lol

[AdmiralDigby]

Anyone who's had more than a few ( three+ ) I usually ask if they want a cab .

Often , if the person is obviously over , as I dial they just sneak out and dash away . It's annoying that people feel I'm responsible for their subterfuge .