I have an English friend named Ingrid, and her father was an alcoholic. When he lost his license for driving drunk, he got himself a tricycle and would pedal it back and forth to a pub, everyone in the village watching.
“Not a regular bike?” I asked.
“He would have fallen off!” Ingrid told me, relieved to be at the stage where she could laugh about it.
June 13, 2017
Tricycles.
In the new New Yorker, "Why Aren't You Laughing?/Reckoning with addiction," by David Sedaris:
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I know a guy who drove his lawnmower to local bars after several DUI's.
I think he lives abroad.
In my home away from home the local one-eyed drunk drives his riding lawnmower to the bar each day to sip whiskey from a coffee mug.
I know a guy who drove his lawnmower to local bars after several DUI's.
6/13/17, 6:43 PM
Can still get you for drunk and disorderly in public.
Anyone who rides a bike or lawnmower, or even walks to the bar after DUI is looking for companionship as much as alcohol.
I have a recumbent trike myself.Not that I ride to bars, but more that I'd never get on a two wheeler, as I'd be too afraid of falling.
Better to look a bit goofy than to be just a couch potato. Not that recumbent trikes are necessarily goofy looking. Hey can be quite sporty in their own way. But at my weight, I end up looking like Jabba The Hutt on wheels.
If you must drink, and certainly if you must drink to excess, why not drink at home? It's much cheaper and nobody needs to know your business and of course no jail.
I seem to recall country singer George Jones was arrested for DUI riding a lawnmower to the liquor store. But it might just be urban legend.
ndspinelli said...
I know a guy who drove his lawnmower to local bars after several DUI's.
People in my town have been convicted of DUI for that. Also on bicycles. And horse drawn wagons. If it's wheeled, on the road, and you're driving it while drunk, it's a DUI. In the county, someone got it fro a motorized wheelchair on the road. Haven't heard of a skateboarder getting it yet.
A relative and his friend once left a party on a tandem bike to go chop down a tree. They crashed the bike, and the relative broke his leg, so it was off to the hospital for many days. He held parties in the hospital room while he was there detained.
Fen:
In his memoirs George Jones confirms that he was once arrested for DUI while riding a lawnmower - not "to the liquor store", of course, but on the way back: he couldn't restrain himself enough to keep the bottle sealed until he got home. As I recall, it was a 17-mile trip, though that may have been the round-trip distance. His wife had hidden the car keys in a failed attempt to keep him sober.
Someone I went to college with finally (I heard) managed to break a 30-year alcohol habit by moving to an island and living without a car in a neighborhood within walking distance of groceries and other necessities but far from any bars or liquor stores.
It all starts with that very first beer.
Speaking of first beers, someone drinks their very first beer in Laslo Films presents "Donut!"
Man-Child learns an Important Thing About Life.
Tucker attempts to explain Heaven.
Heartwarming.
I am Laslo.
In Phoenix, older people used to ride those big trikes around. They don't make them like that anymore. I imagine they used to weigh fifty pounds or so. The advantage seemed to be that the rider didn't require a great sense of balance. Also, it only works on a flat landscape. And nobody would steal such an ugly vehicle.
I should probably get one, but I prefer the Miata.
It's a country song: Vince Gill,"One More Last Chance."
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