worst weekend
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It is odd that the charge is DUI, Driving Under Influence, and yet in most countries you can be charged with this for just sitting behind the wheel, with the engine running and you are not driving anywhere. :)
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I just assumed that DUI, in this case, meant "Dreaming Under the Influence".
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In the UK just being in the car with the keys in your pocket makes you liable to arrest. If you are pissed, that is. You can do that if you are sober.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I wonder if I could go to the passenger seat to keep warm. I'm not sure, because I was told that a friend of a friend got a DUI because they were walking toward their car with the car key in their hand, which showed intent.
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Try it with only one hand, mouse to keyboard, mouse to keyboard, all day long. My arm still gets sore from it (12.5 years later.)
That must suck alot. :)
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That must suck alot. :)
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Then I deserve your sympathy, for I have to work without one of mine on a permanent basis. Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt, although with a non-functioning digit, as opposed to a missing one, they get in the way and you tend to keep knocking them, adding greatly to the enjoyment of your cow orkers with your screams of agony. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Try it with only one hand, mouse to keyboard, mouse to keyboard, all day long. My arm still gets sore from it (12.5 years later.)
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I wonder if I could go to the passenger seat to keep warm. I'm not sure, because I was told that a friend of a friend got a DUI because they were walking toward their car with the car key in their hand, which showed intent.
IIRC in SA, you must be behind the wheel with the engine running. And not have enough bribe money. :rolleyes:
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
Not too closely related, but it reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story from my hometown. This is a smallish town in northern Wisconsin where it's winter five months a year, so there's not much else to do but go out for drinks. Keep in mind that this story is from many years ago, when DUI was not treated as severely as it rightly is now. Anyway, the story is that the police were known for sitting and waiting outside bars, arresting anyone they could, even if it was borderline. One night, a guy stumbles out, fumbles with his keys, dropping them several times before unlocking the car. Gets in, hits the wipers unnecessarily, futzes around with the lights, blows the horn by mistake, and so on. The police come over to arrest him, and take a breathalyzer. He blows 0.00. They try again, same result. As the story goes, he was that night's decoy. While he distracted the police, all his buddies were able to jump in their cars and get on home.
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Not too closely related, but it reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story from my hometown. This is a smallish town in northern Wisconsin where it's winter five months a year, so there's not much else to do but go out for drinks. Keep in mind that this story is from many years ago, when DUI was not treated as severely as it rightly is now. Anyway, the story is that the police were known for sitting and waiting outside bars, arresting anyone they could, even if it was borderline. One night, a guy stumbles out, fumbles with his keys, dropping them several times before unlocking the car. Gets in, hits the wipers unnecessarily, futzes around with the lights, blows the horn by mistake, and so on. The police come over to arrest him, and take a breathalyzer. He blows 0.00. They try again, same result. As the story goes, he was that night's decoy. While he distracted the police, all his buddies were able to jump in their cars and get on home.
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I almost got a DUI this weekend. I was unsure if I was fully sober, so I decided to take a nap in my car, which I turned on so I could use the heater. I slept there an hour and a half before a cop knocked on my window and informed me that I could be charged with a DUI for being intoxicated with the car on. Stupid law if you ask me, but luckily he said I could continue sleeping there as long as I needed and he didn't charge me with anything.
A guy I know got arrested for drink driving and lost his license after going home with a pizza one night, not having house keys but having car keys, so got in the car to eat the pizza. Or that is his story anyway, I suspect he drove home. Many years ago someone around these parts was done for being drunk in charge of a wheelbarrow.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Then I deserve your sympathy, for I have to work without one of mine on a permanent basis. Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt, although with a non-functioning digit, as opposed to a missing one, they get in the way and you tend to keep knocking them, adding greatly to the enjoyment of your cow orkers with your screams of agony. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt,
Having damaged fingers and hands, mostly through sporting injuries, many times over the years I find the one thing I cannot do comfortably with my wrong hand is wipe my backside. Must be something to do with the movement you are doing whilst not being able to see it, but it never feels right using the wrong hand.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Henry Minute wrote:
Actually you'd be surprised at how quickly you would adapt,
Having damaged fingers and hands, mostly through sporting injuries, many times over the years I find the one thing I cannot do comfortably with my wrong hand is wipe my backside. Must be something to do with the movement you are doing whilst not being able to see it, but it never feels right using the wrong hand.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
When I lost my finger, in preparation for the court case I had to go to see a Harley Street doctor who was to prepare a report. There were a number of, obviously 'standard', questions and one of them was "In what ways has the loss affected your life?". As the loss was fairly recent I had difficulty in coming up with much, except that I could not play my guitar (which, incidentally, was both true and untrue at the same time. I couldn't play it after the accident but then again I couldn't play it worth a damn before either.), an answer that I had prepared in anticipation. Any way he was a really nice guy so he prompted me with "Well, can you still wipe your bum and pick your nose?".
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.