http://www.b4udrink.org/ is a website that will let you play with how different alcoholic beverages hit your blood stream and how long it takes to go away.
I’m comforted to know that I can have three margaritas in an hour and not be illegal to drive. Uhm, not that I have ever had three margaritas in an hour. And I wouldn’t drive for a long time with any three alcoholic drinks in an hour.
For me, it’s an hour after one drink (and then only if I feel like I’m ready, after that) and not for at least two hours after two, depending on how widely spaced those are. I don’t drink more than that unless someone else is driving. And a La Pinata margarita counts as 2+ drinks, those things are rocket fuel.
We have very different reactions to alcohol, I think. Either that, or my brother-in-law makes a very special kind of margarita.
<--was bad to drive probably halfway into the first one (of three) (though I think that might've been over a 2 hour period)
For example, the small wineglass of unfiltered sake my favorite sushi place regularly gives me is such that I generally go up the street to my mom’s house to hang for an hour or so before I try driving. Sometimes it’s not too bad but really, that is one thing I do not want to get nailed for doing.
Ummmmm…..this is why I don’t like charts. I don’t know about you, but there’s no frickin’ way I’d get in my car after three margaritas, let alone three in an hour. I actually would really like to know how they came up with that, because I’d be SHOCKED if one could drink three drinks in an hour and still be legal. And if one could, then godalmighty there’s something wrong with the legal BAC and I’ve never even come close to it!
According to this calculator, I should just not drink at all – as in, it tells me that two glasses of wine in an hour should put me three sheets to the wind.
I find this somewhat amusing, since despite a few valiant efforts on the part of various people who shall remain nameless, I have never been drunk. As in, a shot of whiskey coupled with two strong rum and cokes did not get me tipsy. Take that liver damage! My
Irishalcoholic heritage will show you who’s boss!Uh, except that I don’t drink. But aside from that….
Kind of terrifying.
When I put this in as if I was drinking to get **shitfaced**–as in, I’ve been that drunk maybe once in my life shitfaced– it never puts me over the legal limit.
This is the kind of thing that leads me to believe the legal limit should be way lower than it is, cause people look at this kind of information and then think, “Oh, if I slam six cocktails in two hours, I’ll totally be sober.” I don’t think the legal limit should be zero, but it should be low enough to put fear in the hearts of the stupid.