Excellent post, I almost always count my drinks when I'm drinking, or at least have a good estimate of where I'm at (I still binge drink a few times a year, but I'm always pretty safe about it). But that is something that I would think an experienced drinker would be conscious of but I guess that isn't always the case. I know a couple of times when I've gotten too drunk I remember getting peer pressured into that last shot thinking "oh no.. this is the one that's going to push me over the edge.. oh well, fuck it, I guess I'm going to be a little ill tomorrow.." but the only reason I take it is because when I get over the edge drunk/wasted I tend to head home and go to sleep rather than getting into trouble. So my main motivation for not drinking too much is not being sick the next day. If my motivation was staying out of jail, I would think I could stick with my decision to say 'no' to that last shot pretty easily.