Ameatuer day.
I don't want any part of green beer.
Except for walking the dogs a couple of times, I barely left the house.
Amen. Definitely Amatuer Night. I was driving home the 5 miles from work noe St. Patty's Day. My path was down Militarty Trail in Florida, which is a main road on the coast in southern FLA. It was a simple path down one road with zero turns, well expect onto the road and into my apartment complex. At 6pm, I saw 3 people getting DUIs. One was in the back of a cruiser, one was obviously drunk doing a sobriety test, and one was getting cuffed at the scene of an accident.
As one that has always gone to the bar 3 or 4 nights per week but not always lived within walking distance of a bar, I will smahefully admit that I have driven drunk in the past. I will also admit shamefully that plenty of my friends have got DUIs.
At the same, it's like the system is designed to fail. Noone wants to be the only sober one as the DD in the group of people getting drunk. Social drinking occurs, but getting drunk seems to be more of the norm than enjoying 1 or 2 beers. Noone wants to leve their car behind or deal with the hassle of getting it in the morning. Most people (at least here in Burbs) do not live within walking distance of a bar. I'm not condoning the act, but I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of factors working against your typical barfly.
Side note: my grandpa's stories about getting hammered in the 50s (?), driving around, and have it not being illegal still blow my mind.
Anyway, I enjoyed 8 black and tans and walked drunkly with a group of friends for the 1/2 mile back to the condo complex singing "Blarney Stone" the entire way. Good times.
I used to train with cop and one night coming back from some muay thai fights he was pointing out all the drunk guys on the road. Said something like more than half the people on the road after midnight had a least a bit of booze in their system. The cops just pull the ones obviously f'd up. He said they could be busy all night pulling drivers over if they wanted...
Truth!