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xfd696969 t1_jd4c9ux wrote

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It blows my mind how I was so stupid that I would get behind my car fucked up. I would never, ever do that now. And it was a normal thing for me/my friends back then. We didn't even think twice.

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Sub_pup t1_jd4k8je wrote

I use to get high and "hood surf". The one time I fell of at any real speed, my lucky ass landed in some thick bushes.

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[deleted] t1_jd4e00f wrote

I recall driving a moped home, 8 miles away down busy roads, while both—drunk on gas station cans of energy drink / alcohol, and high on more weed than I’d ever smoked in my life prior to that moment, at the ripe age of 14. I don’t remember the drive at all, except for a small insignificant moment where headlights from another car glimmered on the asphalt in front of me.

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357FireDragon357 t1_jd6meo8 wrote

SUMMER OF 1992 COCOA FLORIDA

I was 18 and I had an argument (with my then 33 year old stripper) girlfriend. I packed my beat up and rusty 1975 Chrysler Córdoba with furniture and hauled my drunk ass, speeding down U.S. #1 (jamming out to Guns N Roses with my Pioneer tape/radio )from Cocoa to Titusville. I was feeling freedom and great. So great that I waved to a cop that was sitting in the median.

About a mile down the road, I see blue lights flashing. I pulled over and he and he walks up to the side of my car and asks, "Do I know you?" I replied, 'No, why?'

His reply, "Because you waved to me back there. I thought I knew you." Nope! Just happy to be getting out of an abusive relationship.

Officer: "What's all that stuff in the back of your trunk?" Me: "I moved out"

Officer: "You been drinking?" Me: 'Yes sir'

Officer: "About how much?' Me: "About a fifth of Jack Daniels"

Officer: "Wow!" You seem pretty sober for drinking that much alcohol. How much further you gotta go and where you going?" Me: 'My parents house, which is about 3 more miles.'

Officer: "Ok, be safe and slow it down. I'm not going to arrest you because your speech is normal and honest and had the guts to be straight with me. Me: "Ok, thank you" (heart racing, thinking; damn I'm going to the slammer and no one's gonna bail me out.)

Similar incidents happened a few times in my late teens and early 20's. Thankfully never got locked up for it. I finally smartened up and realized it was frikken selfish of me and that I could hurt or kill someone.

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margot_in_space t1_jd583eu wrote

Glad you made it, but this is the biggest reason I hate driving lol

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