Drinking and driving - talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-g-generation ...
I hear it bandied about increasingly that my generation (I'm 36) are the only ones who look down on drink-driving, as we were the ones who first encountered the intense anti-drink-driving government advertising on the television in the 1980s, for which we were old enough to understand, and young enough to take on board. The generation after us were brought up with it and became immunised through familiarity, and certainly my parents generation seem to think nothing of having a few beers and driving home.

I remember my parents and my step-father to be all being in agreement that the general rule when coming back from the pub was to put the left wheels in the gutter to make sure you knew you were on the right side of the road, and that if you ditched it into a hedge or similar, the rule of thumb was to pull her out, kick the dents out and carry on. This was condoned by the police, apparently.

That any of us are still alive is quite shocking, it seems from their tales.

Now, of course, the moment you have a double-whiskey too many and throw up on your kids, everyone goes batshit.

Bloody kids.

I can't believe I'm 36 years old and still embarassed by my parents.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 15:35, 5 replies)

My mates dad
Wrote his car off after a night out drinking with his mates back in the 60's as his mate in the passenger seat had lent over and pulled the steering wheel off for a laugh and had thrown it out the window.

This was coming down a bendy hill near West Wycombe in Bucks.

They still all think it was hilarious. Despite it being very wrong and a danger to themselves and other road users.

I only think it was slightly hilarious.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 15:59, closed)

I know the hill
Downley?
(Monkey the Chicken Twitter: death_stairs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 16:04, closed)

The one that goes to Radnage up Stokenchurch way.

( Dervel OTBC, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 16:13, closed)

Yep, know it
Avoid Stokenchurch if at all possible!
(Monkey the Chicken Twitter: death_stairs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 17:03, closed)

One of my first driving lessons with my Dad
Along a country lane near home, as we approached a left/right corner combo over a small stream:

'I remember putting my 1st mini cooper on its roof here'

'Jesus! How did that happen?'

'Not sure of the details, but we were all pretty pissed'

'oh...'
(minlan no longer barks at bancleys, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 22:23, closed)