"Tripper" (tripe46)
10/31/2016 at 11:37 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
10/31/2016 at 11:37 • Filed to: None | 0
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My wife and I always use a car service for weekend activities because drinking etc... Saturday night I scheduled a driver to take us to our friends Halloween party. He arrived, we hopped in and instantly noticed the smell of low quality marijuana combined with a lower quality cigar. My wife and I had a brief chuckle about it and the driver pulled off.
He started chatting with us, and out of the clear blue he started mentioning that he was a super star athlete in high school, got recruited in to a good college and then it didn’t work out.... I thought to myself, “damn this guy sure is running his mouth a lot for someone who just smoked a blunt.” Then he mentioned that he had been to rehab for painkillers, but has been sober for two years.
I congratulated him and mentioned that I had a few friends that went through a similar scenario, but only one who actually got clean. The car was quiet for a minute and I’m thinking, “man the way he is talking really reminds me of how my friends used to talk when they were trying to convince me they were sober when no one accused them of being not sober.” I could see his eyes get “tired” the less we talked so I kept on coming up with things to say.
I looked over at my wife to see if she was getting the same notion as I, she was... She lost her best childhood friend to a drug overdose a few years ago, so neither of us are strangers to the kind of behavior exhibited by those under the influence of an opiate. Luckily this was a short ride and all of this came to fruition close to our destination. He drove perfectly, although he missed the last turn.
We got out, he took off and my wife immediately says, “guess who’s not off the pain meds?” I agreed and exclaimed, “here we are trying to do the right thing and not drive after having a drink or two, and our driver is juiced up on xyz.”
First bad experience on a ride sharing service, luckily on return ride was the exact opposite experience. The driver had a Pathfinder Armada, which in contrast to the outside are really nice on the inside. He had water bottles for us, the car was super clean, and he didn’t say a word the whole way home, perfect!
Hope everyone had a great weekend, also happy Halloween!
fourvalleys
> Tripper
10/31/2016 at 11:42 |
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I hope you alerted the ride-sharing service. Impaired driving is never acceptable, and they need to do their part to keep him off the road.
Jonathan Harper
> Tripper
10/31/2016 at 11:53 |
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Wow...mega not cool. Even 16-year-old dumbass me figured out right quick that if a blunt is smoked in a vehicle, you and everything you have with you is gonna stank for a while.
S65
> Jonathan Harper
10/31/2016 at 11:56 |
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I wanna hear the rest of the story lol
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Tripper
> Jonathan Harper
10/31/2016 at 11:58 |
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Yea that was part of the giveaway about the opiates. Nobody that starts out sober says “yea I’m just going to puff this L in my car real quick no one will know.”
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> Tripper
10/31/2016 at 12:05 |
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This is something that should be brought to attention of the ride share agency. It’s a major liability for them and I’m sure they wouldn’t be happy about it. Not to mention the whole public safety aspect.
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Jonathan Harper
> S65
10/31/2016 at 12:43 |
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Not really one single story...riding around the suburbs smoking in cars was a thing a lot of kids in my high school did.
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Jonathan Harper
> Tripper
10/31/2016 at 12:44 |
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lol nope.
somewhat related...I was getting gas the other day and saw a guy in the far corner of the lot standing about 10 ft from a minivan smoking a cigarette with a leather glove on the hand he was smoking with...I bet his wife “has no idea”.
iSureWilll
> Jonathan Harper
10/31/2016 at 13:26 |
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Silly kids. You’re supposed to stand outside and smoke it. THEN get in the car. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
