I would like to share an experience with you all, about drinking and driving.

As I'm sure we all know, some of us have been known to have had rare brushes with the authorities on our way home from the odd social session over the years.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I was likely over the limit, I did something I've never done before .... I took a bus home. Sure enough I passed a roadblock but as it was a bus they just waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before and I am not even sure where I got it from!

If you know of anybody missing a bus please let me know so I can arrange to return it.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

That was good.

Still giggling!

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Mona
"Music is What Feelings Sound like"

Good on you BMW-KTM.

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Gary

So,,,Did someone "MISS THE BUS"?

Ha!

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...I for one, sure would appreciate the return of intelligent conversation, spirit of assistance and the simple yet effective ignoring of those who can't seem to hang with that...
Best regards,
rob

One time I partied so hard that I blacked out and woke up in a cave 3 days later.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

My brother was killed by a dumbass drunk driver so your humor is lost on me...sorry!

Though I'm probably going to take heat for this, I think you should lighten up. He probably didn't know that. I've lost family members to cancer, Alzheimer's, accidents, etc, and it's still a good laugh if someone says the right joke. Hell, I have a possible tumor growing on the inside of my elbow and I'll still laugh at a decent cancer joke. (yes, I actually do have some kind of growth/cyst/whatever growing. getting it checked later this week possibly.)

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

In the past 68+ years, many was the night that I drove home with one eye open, as did many of my friends. Some are still alive to tell the story and some are not. some killed others and some only killed themselves. RIP to those that are no longer alive, to the rest of us, please don't drink and drive.
----Danny,

I've had both a cousin,co-worker who was also a very close friend and one of my youngest daughter's best friends murdered by drunk drivers.I don't use the word murdered lightlly but this was a 3rd time offence for two of them and the second one of each causing casualties.Drinking and driving is no longer the joke it used to be in the 60's-70s and earlier.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Nowadays this is a morally unacceptable thing to do. I remember when you thought you could have a few beers and still be in control.

Times have moved on and nowadays it's just a no no all around this issue.

Don't ever do it.

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

some of my oldest memories are of my father cruising down the highway at 70 pouring a shot and sucking on a cigarette. and the whole time he was steering with his knee bitching at me for not being still luckily noone got hurt .
his motto has always been
"an inch is as good as a mile"

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My father told me that when he was at the golf club on a Sunday they'd finish up retire to the bar and then come near closing time drive down the darkened road (The club was way out in the countryside so no street lights) and the driver had been drinking as much as everyone else!

One night they raced a train down the road as the rail line was close to the road, only for it to soar off into the distance, it was a plane not a train

He said they had a few close escapes. Of course this was way back in the day in the late 60's early 70's when no one really paid attention to these things back then.

That was then and it's a different thing nowadays. It's just not acceptable to carry on like that anymore.

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

No heat at you, but when it is a preventable thing..no way do I find humor in it! Especially when my brother was the 3rd person killed by the a hole and he got off scot free and tried to take my family to court. As for your situation I feel for you and will keep you in my prayers! Positive vibes going your way buxom
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