Never retrieved those ladders. Yeah I shouldn't have been driving that night, and I shouldn't have gone to jail that night either, from hearing stories from those older before the whole DUI system took place in this country. Cost alot of damn money, more money than most people have in their retirement accounts today from what I read, that means if your an average American worker or non worker, than you go straight to jail get released and will then at sentencing go back to jail since you won't be able to pay the fines, and won't have the money for a lawyer.
The cops used to just tell you to pull it over or go up the road and get some coffee from what I've been told. It cost me alot of loot, and stress, and time lost. Now that night wasn't the norm, there was emotions mixed in there with a sudden departure. Normally I'm a professional when I go out and the key is to stick with good liquors, good beers, and stay hydrated. Yep we all fuck up and thats life, and anyone who thinks different is living a boring ass life.
BAC to the .05 bac discussion: After getting rid of smoking in most bars and restaurants, they took the fun out for some, left the non-fun for the rest. Now with the current bac of .08, which is ridiculously low, leaving many to sacrifice drinking at all when going out, in fear of a bac number, few can be completely confident in, if put to the test. The results thus far, have been less than steller times for many going out for the night, due to having to take precariously energy reducing, stress inducing precautions such as who will drive and possibly get the DUI tonight(like a lottery system), or do we know anyone Amish who doesn't drink yet will drive us later.
Fewer drink, more smoke weed, maybe not due to the more stringent laws, who knows, but fewer are going out and having a good time, and those that do, have a lesser time with the thoughts of cops out there looking around the corner, watching you leave a parking lot. Weed is good too, but people don't go out to smoke weed, so I'm wondering if the police state is punishing smoking cigs and drinking alcohol in public, to keep people from socializing as much as should take place.
Now with the .05 Bac, altoids, mouthwash, rubbing alcohol absorbed in the skin, a hangover from the night before, could trigger a DUI for the masses now. A friend of mine got a DUI at noon on a Sunday, from drinking the night before. He was driving fine, just speeding, and that's the key here, you don't have to be doing anything wrong to trigger a possible DUI, beside just driving out there on the roads.
So in the near future, as people go out, their night will be one that is made of food, no smoking, no cigars, no drinking, just food, and still the possiblity of getting pulled over and a fine for something. Sounds like a night out at a church. Doesn't sound like a place of fun or that I want to spend my days in. Sounds like a society of robots.