Question for you all to help me settle an argument between my friend and me. My best friend only has a learners permit so she needs a licensed driver with her who is able to drive the vehicle in the event that she can't.
We were at the bar one night and one of my licensed driver friends who drove there had a couple schooners over the course of two hours and insisted that "he was fine because alcohol leaves his blood stream faster than normal." (A bunch bs if you ask me.)
Anyways, my friend who only had a learners permit insisted that she should drive him home "because it's better to have a sober driver with only a learners permit rather than a drunk guy driving and that the police won't care as long as the driver is sober."
I told her it was a load of crap because if she were to get into an accident she'd have no insurance, not to mention that she's not at the level of driving where she can drive without the assistance of her licensed driver. (She can't judge distance or parallel park, and doesn't know all the rules of the road yet.)
I offered the other guy a ride home because I was sober enough (I only had one beer over the two hours along with a huge plate of nachos.) to drive. He insisted that he needed to have his car back home in the morning because his sister needed his car for work in the morning. (Before you ask "why didn't you just drive his car home?" I'll tell you that I couldn't because his is a standard and I can only drive automatics.)
I fought him for his keys but he's a lot bigger than me and when I grabbed them, he bit me (hard too. I was bleeding pretty bad.) and I dropped them and he grabbed them before I could get them.
I made my friend come with me (I wasn't going to let anything happen to her).
He took off in his car and I called him in, but by the time the police could get to where he was going he had slipped through them and they couldn't find him.
All the way home my friend chewed me out for not letting her drive him home in his car "because it's better to have a sober driver with only a learners permit rather than a drunk guy driving and that the police won't care as long as the driver is sober."
So tell me this. If you would have pulled her over and when you found that she only had a learners permit and her licensed driver was drunk would you have cared?
Also, what else could I have done to prevent this situation from happening in the event that it happens again (which it most likely will)?
We were at the bar one night and one of my licensed driver friends who drove there had a couple schooners over the course of two hours and insisted that "he was fine because alcohol leaves his blood stream faster than normal." (A bunch bs if you ask me.)
Anyways, my friend who only had a learners permit insisted that she should drive him home "because it's better to have a sober driver with only a learners permit rather than a drunk guy driving and that the police won't care as long as the driver is sober."
I told her it was a load of crap because if she were to get into an accident she'd have no insurance, not to mention that she's not at the level of driving where she can drive without the assistance of her licensed driver. (She can't judge distance or parallel park, and doesn't know all the rules of the road yet.)
I offered the other guy a ride home because I was sober enough (I only had one beer over the two hours along with a huge plate of nachos.) to drive. He insisted that he needed to have his car back home in the morning because his sister needed his car for work in the morning. (Before you ask "why didn't you just drive his car home?" I'll tell you that I couldn't because his is a standard and I can only drive automatics.)
I fought him for his keys but he's a lot bigger than me and when I grabbed them, he bit me (hard too. I was bleeding pretty bad.) and I dropped them and he grabbed them before I could get them.
I made my friend come with me (I wasn't going to let anything happen to her).
He took off in his car and I called him in, but by the time the police could get to where he was going he had slipped through them and they couldn't find him.
All the way home my friend chewed me out for not letting her drive him home in his car "because it's better to have a sober driver with only a learners permit rather than a drunk guy driving and that the police won't care as long as the driver is sober."
So tell me this. If you would have pulled her over and when you found that she only had a learners permit and her licensed driver was drunk would you have cared?
Also, what else could I have done to prevent this situation from happening in the event that it happens again (which it most likely will)?
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