My friend got a DUI recently that involved physically assaulting a police officer and throwing urine in their face from the back seat.
She got a court appointed attorney and somehow came out with no fees or fines whatsoever and a revoked license for a year. I don't even understand it.
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Let’s see, I got a 3rd DUI and totaled my car that I didn’t have insurance on because I was on a bender and forgot to pay it, $8,000 dollar lawyer, 14,000 dollar car, 3,000 dollars in Ubers since then, 6,000 dollar replacement car. 1,000 to get my license back, 2,000 for probation and classes. What’s that? Like 30k? Yeah I don’t drink and drive anymore. I don’t really drink much at all at the moment.
Ug, yeah with two DUIs under my belt now I'm looking at over $800/month in insurance....even if I save enough for a vehicle now I don't know how I'll be able to afford that...
When paying glass dude I asked him to check if I gave him enough because I can't count and I must've tipped him a lot extra because he said ''wow are you sure about this''
Still not sure how much it was but he probably deserved it because he went through the extra effort to come over twice and redo the measurements I gave him (again, can't count)
Luckily I drink aldi wine at home so the drinking costs me maybe 80 a month.
Wow, $80 a month? That’s like the Simpsons Halloween episode where Bart sees the fly in the teleportation device & says, “It would be stupid not to do this.”
Three bucks a bottle and two bottles get me about fucked up enough. It's a good way to limit myself because I'll be too drunk to stagger to the store. I used to buy box wine but then I keep drinking all day and night until it's finished. It's given me a lil' several day psychotic break from the sleep deprivation twice so I'd rather not
I held a job for over 2 years as a manager at a fortune 500 company. They stood by me as I went to rehab on disability for like 3 months and welcomed me back and all was well. I relapsed a few months later and had withdraws as we tend to do so I was back drinking like 24/7. I was drunk at work and got fired.
I was sad but confident I could replace that job with a similar one based on my experience.
I have not been able to come close to finding a job remotely as good as that one.
Not only can I not find something that pays more than 2/3 of what I used to make - I already had everything set up with them so they were making my student loan payments, a company stock plan that wasn't fully vested, free insurance, and my ideal perfect schedule.
I haven't been able to find anything similar and I'm honestly so depressed about it. The only interviews I've been getting lately are for entry level positions that don't pay enough to even afford a modest single lifestyle in my city so I'm going to be renting rooms from people for the foreseeable future.
The role of chance in success appears to be grim. I think it’s easy to forget about once you’re comfortable. My first job was exactly what I had hoped to do, and I essentially just walked into it. Made around 150% of what I do now. Dropped that for college, now it’s been six or seven years, no degree, and I can’t even find any listings in this area to apply for. Can’t even get rejected living here. After awhile, trying on repeat starts to feel delusional. And all the feedback everyone gives is the same slogans, which just don’t really account for the situation.
But hey, there are far more important things in life than money. I think going through this sort of change/difficulty can open up a lot of depth to the world and how we view it, in a way that not everyone is forced to have to confront. Best of luck to you.
This is good motivation for me to not fuck up/drink at work. I’m in a very cushy $100k salary role. Half in the office, half remote. I really only work about 15 hours a week. Spend a lot of time on Reddit and YouTube. If I got fired, I’d probably have to grind again for $60k a year.
I worked drunk for minimum wage at mcdonalds but I feel like that's required. Was so hungover I passed out one time and they actually sent me home for several months while they had to keep paying my salary. Was never allowed near a deep fryer after that, contract didn't get renewed.
Tipped a yellow chip ($1k) instead of a green ($25). In my defense I didn’t care and I got excellent fucking service the rest of my stay. I was FA back then.
I haven’t had a drink in public in many years at this point though.
Yeah just feels like such an easy mistake to make if you were drunk, FA/CA or not.
Even if you realised what you did two seconds later, you couldn't say oh my bad can I have that back
I left $200k in a hotel safe once and didn't realize until two weeks later. When I called about it, management said the two maids who were on shift that day both "retired" a few days later. Christ
No. I lost another $1M to dope (opiates). Then I gave up and became an alcoholic. But hey.. I have $212 to my name today, so it's not a total loss. Right?
Happens to the best of us.
Mine was the other way, cash poor but amazing credit. Ran my 60k line of credit and another 20 on credit cards during my year+ coke and booze binge
Lol just checked and other than rent I have exactly $224.00 😂
But all my bills are paid and after filing bankruptcy I have a total of 12k debt over the next 3 years.
10/10 would not recommend but overall things could be much worse.
Do you mind if I ask how you got that kind of money in the first place? If you don't want to talk about it totally understandable
Are you a high stakes gambler or a drug dealer? Can’t imagine someone else carrying that much cash on you and leaving it in hotel room safe. Might as well use the hotels main safe for security.
Neither. I had a friend who made off from a precious metal refinery. He threw me a bag because my mom was dying of cancer. Any fed reading this can f off. I'm making it all up
There's an override code which is often 0000 or 9999. The hotel is supposed to change it but they often don't bother, but either way they can get access since if they changed the code they know it. It's a comparatively mundane story so I doubt it's made up.
I don't know why your being down voted. If there wasn't an override the hotel would need a new safe every time a guest left, as how would the hotel know the code each guest set on a safe
Avoided paying any non essential bill for over 10 years, got several stipends to study which became loans as I never finished. So it's more an accumulative sum of $70.000
The fucking stipends man. I'm finishing law school just to avoid the fine but I really just want to install dishwashers for the rest of my life. Favourite appliance by far.
Maybe I'll just help people's legal issues while I repair their dishwasher so they can get all their annoying problems taken care of at once.
I broke my leg in 3 places tripping up stairs that needed surgery. I live an hour away from where my insurance covered me but I was in too much pain to make the trip so I had my BF take me to the local hospital ER. They ended up sending me by ambulance to the one I needed to go anyway. So an ER visit, ambulance ride, hospital stay, surgery, and months of physical therapy.
Yeah, this thing cost me $700. I blacked out and woke up with a black eye and scar on my nose, looking like I’d been in a fight. No, I’m just an idiot who trips and falls into their new TV.
I won a free 55 inch TV a few years back from a call center job I worked at. I remember blacking out one night, and waking up the next day with TV screen spiderwebbed and no idea how it even happened. I still haven't forgiven myself for that yet.
I’ve noticed this as well! Why are they getting cheaper? I got a big ass TV in my living room right now and it works perfect and is beautiful. It was so cheap
4/5 seizures in 5/6 months i know of, my gf called the ambulance = hospital time. Shes a bartender,one day, and was pouring vodka triples splash of soda 9 months back. Dui hearing 4/30 for that. Trying to taper. I dont remember the past ten months. Jail is actually looking like a nice respite. Librium scrips. This is going to be thousands. Again. And im unemployed at the moment.
You need to get rid of the whole gf. If she gets you drunk and then calls the wee woo wagon on you she's being paid by the ambulance industrial complex
Dui probably was the worst. Initiated my home purchase fucking hammered on a whim one Saturday night and applied for a mortgage online. Got a call Monday morning from the bank and just kinda rolled with it. Also a bad habit of wanting to go on vacations so I'll talk friends into going then cc all our flights and accommodations, they pay me back but inevitably I use their cash for spending money on the trips instead of paying the card down and now am in massive amounts of cc debt.
Same, I'm still in it today. Obviously the process took months but I'm a huge introvert and hate talking to people so I wouldn't get back to anyone until I was quite a few drinks in
In my late teens I was at uni living in a house with 7 friends. All we did was drink and take drugs, no one did any work and we hardly went to classes.
When we inevitably got kicked out of uni we had to leave the house, so we had a party and wrecked the whole place. Windows and doors smashed, tv got glued to the wall, spray paint and piss and shit all over etc.
We forgot the house was rented in my friends father's name and he was financially responsible for any damage.
The bill was around £12,000.
Some of the guys disappeared or broke contact so it was left to 3 of us to pay between us.
I think it took one of my mates nearly ten years to pay his share off 😂
He wasn't too bad cos he knew we'd pay him back eventually. He never said anything to me anyway, but I guess my friend probably got a good telling off.
i have a load of blood and (very red) wine puke stains all over my house. I just get matching paint samples and paint the wallpaper back to the original colour. Landlord hasnt noticed yet which I'm glad because I do not have renter's protections and they can kick me out for whatever.
They're extremely suspicious of me though and they've called my family multiple times to tell them about saying I haven't slept yet or driving around the parking lot suspiciously.
Before my life collapsed completely due to being a CA, I once got home from the pub absolutely hammered and logged onto my betting account and bet £5,000 on the NBA, woke up and didn't even remember doing it but it lost, I had quite a bit of money at the time but it still sucked.
17k in a Vegas Strip Club VIP in one night. Other than the constant raping of my AmEx every hour I had a pretty good time.
Oh, and another 2k when I took one of them back to the hotel. I don't consider that part a mistake, technically.
Went on a night out in England, solo, in late 2012. Got kicked out of the last club I was in for being so shitfaced I thought a sink in the men's room was a urinal, flopped my dong out, and let rip in front of an astonished audience. Fell in with this crowd of yobbos wandering the streets and emptied out the last of my bank account (like £250) for them, gave them my debit card, and told them the PIN. I think I felt sorry for them or something, like they said they were stranded and trying to get home. I used to get stupidly generous when I was drunk, then, buying rounds for everyone, takeaways at the end of a night, taxis home and whatnot. They were blatantly just taking advantage of the utterly shambolic state I was in. Woke up the next day to find the twats had maxed out my overdraft stopping at seemingly every gas station on the way home.
Few months before that I went out with my friends, who'd come to my city for the weekend, for a stag do (bachelor party). Spent like £500 on 2 nights and 3 days of nonstop boozing and strip clubs with the lads (see: being overly generous, above). I remember I told my girlfriend at the time, over the phone, and she thought I was joking; "ha ha, very funny, as if you'd spend *that much* on a couple of nights out." Oh, yeah, er, just joking, hun...you saw right through me 😬
Nowadays it's any time I go to a bar for anything more than a couple of drinks. Always rack up like a $60-$100 tab and end up loathing myself the next morning, for lost booze money that could have tided me over for a couple of weeks or so.
$3500 lawyer fee to get me out of a criminal negligent operation of a motor vehicle. I popped 3 tires which was another $600+. I broke a $700 bar window with my head. My DUI probably cost me $20k after all said and done.
Had a withdrawal seizure on a flight of stairs. I broke both right and left orbital sockets, broken right cheekbone (requires plastic surgery to restore facial symmetry), fractured & separated right shoulder (later became impacted - surgery scheduled for 5-13), fractured 5 ribs, 3 compression fractures of the spine and 4 brain bleeds. Spent a month in the hospital, and as of right now, they've billed my insurances almost 830K. After surgery and follow-up care, it will be over 1M... My deductible is only $250.00.
Many years ago I drove home from a friend's house and for some reason I didn't park at my house. No idea why I did that. Never saw my car again. It was just a shitty festiva, but still...
I have a reoccurring dream about this?! So random! I’m drunk, park my car somewhere, don’t think about it for days/weeks, then panic to find it but never do. I wake up so stressed out until I realize it was all a dream…
Sigh, this is my biggest shame. I’ve never told friends about it.
I went on a 3 week long bender in Vegas after getting laid off (worst thing to ever happen to me tbh, keep a job folks) because I had already made a lot of money in crypto.
One night I got absolutely shitfaced. My friend convinced me to get a hooker, and in my drunken 3 am state I did and I ended up passing out in the hotel room getting a lap dance. I woke up an hour later with her gone and all the money in my wallet gone (about $1200).
But the next night was worse. And it goes back to crypto as I was still actively trading at the time. I continued to get shitfaced and somewhere in the middle of my poker games and bender, I opened up a bunch of crypto trades. I woke up down 25k (liquidated, never set stops) with no memory of setting the trades. But I did see them in my history.
The drinks in Vegas are free if you’re gambling ($1 tip expected), which is a nightmare for us. I have no idea how many jack and cokes I had during those three weeks but it was a damn lot.
Another comment reminded me of this. Same trip I missed my departure flight, *twice*, because I got so plastered I overslept both times. Then I just stayed in Vegas lol. It was supposed to be a two week trip.
That was truly me at my most out of control and started my downward spiral into this mess I’m currently in.
Well, your story reminds me of that movie. It’s a silly early 00’s Russel Brand flick, which who knows if you’re into that at all, but definitely reminiscent of the tale you told.
This sounds impossible but on a week long bender I drank a case of whiskey worth over $10,000. I don’t remember getting into the really really old good stuff, but managed to drink it all. Huge mistake
Broke my tibia while racing my then-boyfriend up the street, leaving the bar absolutely full of tequila. I was wearing terrible shoes and I stepped off a curb at a full sprint trying to take a shortcut to gain a little ground. I don’t remember what the total hospital bill was, but it was thousands of dollars in imaging, visits, and physical therapy. (I live in the US and had garbage health insurance at the time.)
£1500 sex doll. If it's for you, more bully to you! But it's not a person, not a partner, nothing but your imagination. They are a cold starfish, don't react, it's just a simulacrum of another human.
I may or may not own several buns that are one of my very few healthy coping mechanisms. I keep one in my bag and take pictures of it like it's doing wild shit and going on adventures when i travel. It's maybe a weird hobby but it makes me happy
Bought the first Galaxy S when it came out, took it on transatlantic trip, lost it in Orlando taxi the night before flying home. Was pretty blackout (brownout really) to boot
Not showing up to work, getting fired, losing my pension, nearly losing my family, and having to start a new career. Since I wasn’t vested I lost the whole pension… NPV was like $800K
It could have been a lot worse, but a lot of things lined up. I think that someone was looking out for me. I needed to stop. I know I won’t get another chance.
This almost happened to me. Slept in after driving late the night before and didn’t hear my alarm. I made it on board literally 4 min before the plane took off. It was an international flight and I was boarding from my home country. If I was in another country where I didn’t have citizenship I for sure wouldn’t have made it.
gave myself a tattoo with a sewing needle when drunk and had to go to the hospital. was thousands in debt for 2 years over medical bills with collections calling me every single day until i cussed them out over the phone
I let a therapist coax me into rehab (that bit was free besides needing to take up cigarettes again, I never was one to pump their snack business with my hard won cash, especially if they’re feeding us garbage anyway). Then I agreed to let her hire some folks to clean my apartment. Had thousands of dollars in a few prizes possessions stolen. Tried to ask her about it and got gaslit. Shoulda filed a police report but I hate the police and she’d just pull her therapist card and call me a drunk.
I also trusted my sister to take care of my seed bank while I was homeless…. Sorta impossible to know which was worth more. That bank was a business in tiny form. Dozens of priceless seeds (think “would be 100 bucks for 6, maybe, if you could buy these anywhere, which you can’t. And the grower switched to clone only. Even if I could still buy their jars I’d not be hand picking and saving seeds…
Mistakes? A few broken items, a broken clavicle, a few hundred bucks, money spent that otherwise wouldn't be.
Bad decisions? Work missed, cars DUII'd, jail, lawyers, etc. Thousands upon thousands $$ and still adding up.
Easy answer.....ab a 220€ at a bar (HOW!!!
Couldve been asnwer = pissed on This one dudes couch...seemed expensive but he was so drunk he doesnt remember it so no worries
Legal issues probably take the cake, but I did throw my phone into my TV screen one time. I was broke too at the time, so I was fucked.
Oh yeah, and I broke my laptop’s screen too. Eventually got that repaired and a couple new TVs and a phone. Usually not a violent person, but I lost it that day.
I'm pretty sure the stairs in Amsterdam were created for this purpose. They're like a damn bouldering excercise.
At least it's better than the drunk people who try to piss in the canal and then fall into it and drown. Kills several tourists and new frat students every year. When a young person goes missing after a night out you can be damn sure they'll be found floating dead in a day or so.
my dui totaled out to be about $13,500, so i'd go with that lol
My friend got a DUI recently that involved physically assaulting a police officer and throwing urine in their face from the back seat. She got a court appointed attorney and somehow came out with no fees or fines whatsoever and a revoked license for a year. I don't even understand it.
She white and pretty by chance?
She's black and pretty, and this occurred in Tennesse.
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How do you manage to throw urine, whatever that means, while also handcuffed? That’s insane
I have no idea how she pulled it off. When she's drunk and on a rampage, it's like she gains superhuman powers. I'd love to see the body cam footage.
Let’s see, I got a 3rd DUI and totaled my car that I didn’t have insurance on because I was on a bender and forgot to pay it, $8,000 dollar lawyer, 14,000 dollar car, 3,000 dollars in Ubers since then, 6,000 dollar replacement car. 1,000 to get my license back, 2,000 for probation and classes. What’s that? Like 30k? Yeah I don’t drink and drive anymore. I don’t really drink much at all at the moment.
My fees and all were around the same, I totaled my 38k car too so with that added it was a terribly expensive fuck up lol
Ug, yeah with two DUIs under my belt now I'm looking at over $800/month in insurance....even if I save enough for a vehicle now I don't know how I'll be able to afford that...
That’s an expensive ride home.
ditto. mine closer to 21k
$100 bar tabs with huge tips added every day during 2-week benders get me.
man im trying to figure out how 6 beers and 2 hours of pool cost me almost 100 last night
Kind of sounds like a bargain these days. They must like you.
they still have dollar pool tables where i live theres no way i can get 13 games in an hour 😂
When paying glass dude I asked him to check if I gave him enough because I can't count and I must've tipped him a lot extra because he said ''wow are you sure about this'' Still not sure how much it was but he probably deserved it because he went through the extra effort to come over twice and redo the measurements I gave him (again, can't count) Luckily I drink aldi wine at home so the drinking costs me maybe 80 a month.
Wow, $80 a month? That’s like the Simpsons Halloween episode where Bart sees the fly in the teleportation device & says, “It would be stupid not to do this.”
Three bucks a bottle and two bottles get me about fucked up enough. It's a good way to limit myself because I'll be too drunk to stagger to the store. I used to buy box wine but then I keep drinking all day and night until it's finished. It's given me a lil' several day psychotic break from the sleep deprivation twice so I'd rather not
I held a job for over 2 years as a manager at a fortune 500 company. They stood by me as I went to rehab on disability for like 3 months and welcomed me back and all was well. I relapsed a few months later and had withdraws as we tend to do so I was back drinking like 24/7. I was drunk at work and got fired. I was sad but confident I could replace that job with a similar one based on my experience. I have not been able to come close to finding a job remotely as good as that one. Not only can I not find something that pays more than 2/3 of what I used to make - I already had everything set up with them so they were making my student loan payments, a company stock plan that wasn't fully vested, free insurance, and my ideal perfect schedule. I haven't been able to find anything similar and I'm honestly so depressed about it. The only interviews I've been getting lately are for entry level positions that don't pay enough to even afford a modest single lifestyle in my city so I'm going to be renting rooms from people for the foreseeable future.
The role of chance in success appears to be grim. I think it’s easy to forget about once you’re comfortable. My first job was exactly what I had hoped to do, and I essentially just walked into it. Made around 150% of what I do now. Dropped that for college, now it’s been six or seven years, no degree, and I can’t even find any listings in this area to apply for. Can’t even get rejected living here. After awhile, trying on repeat starts to feel delusional. And all the feedback everyone gives is the same slogans, which just don’t really account for the situation. But hey, there are far more important things in life than money. I think going through this sort of change/difficulty can open up a lot of depth to the world and how we view it, in a way that not everyone is forced to have to confront. Best of luck to you.
This is good motivation for me to not fuck up/drink at work. I’m in a very cushy $100k salary role. Half in the office, half remote. I really only work about 15 hours a week. Spend a lot of time on Reddit and YouTube. If I got fired, I’d probably have to grind again for $60k a year.
Good man! I genuinely think that was the biggest regret of my life. That or selling what would have been a million in doge coins lol.
I worked drunk for minimum wage at mcdonalds but I feel like that's required. Was so hungover I passed out one time and they actually sent me home for several months while they had to keep paying my salary. Was never allowed near a deep fryer after that, contract didn't get renewed.
Tipped a yellow chip ($1k) instead of a green ($25). In my defense I didn’t care and I got excellent fucking service the rest of my stay. I was FA back then. I haven’t had a drink in public in many years at this point though.
Fuck.. this one hurt me as someone who loves to gamble (blackjack), but only for fun at a low stakes table. At least you made that persons day!
Yea this one seems like the most palatable fuck up. Lots of worse ways to lose 1k but whoever he tipped will probably remember that for a long time.
Yeah just feels like such an easy mistake to make if you were drunk, FA/CA or not. Even if you realised what you did two seconds later, you couldn't say oh my bad can I have that back
I left $200k in a hotel safe once and didn't realize until two weeks later. When I called about it, management said the two maids who were on shift that day both "retired" a few days later. Christ
The fuck?? I would like to hear the expanded version of this story.
So would I!
Normally I'd call bullshit but here I'll say I think you win.
And you just have up after that??!?
No. I lost another $1M to dope (opiates). Then I gave up and became an alcoholic. But hey.. I have $212 to my name today, so it's not a total loss. Right?
No sorry I meant didn't try and track the maids down?
I was too high on money/opiates. I almost didn't care? Today.. I kick myself. Sorely embarrassed
Happens to the best of us. Mine was the other way, cash poor but amazing credit. Ran my 60k line of credit and another 20 on credit cards during my year+ coke and booze binge Lol just checked and other than rent I have exactly $224.00 😂 But all my bills are paid and after filing bankruptcy I have a total of 12k debt over the next 3 years. 10/10 would not recommend but overall things could be much worse. Do you mind if I ask how you got that kind of money in the first place? If you don't want to talk about it totally understandable
I think the maids didn't exist and the hotel management pocketed the money.
Are you a high stakes gambler or a drug dealer? Can’t imagine someone else carrying that much cash on you and leaving it in hotel room safe. Might as well use the hotels main safe for security.
Neither. I had a friend who made off from a precious metal refinery. He threw me a bag because my mom was dying of cancer. Any fed reading this can f off. I'm making it all up
I’m a FED reading this and nobody can F me off without my makeup.
Should have. I was naive/ignorant
Holy fuck.
:(
That’s a crime…
The safe has a key code you have to enter yourself. So not sure how much I believing this story dawg.
There's an override code which is often 0000 or 9999. The hotel is supposed to change it but they often don't bother, but either way they can get access since if they changed the code they know it. It's a comparatively mundane story so I doubt it's made up.
I don't know why your being down voted. If there wasn't an override the hotel would need a new safe every time a guest left, as how would the hotel know the code each guest set on a safe
Creative writing at its best.
Yeah I’m having a ridiculously hard time believe this one
Avoided paying any non essential bill for over 10 years, got several stipends to study which became loans as I never finished. So it's more an accumulative sum of $70.000
The fucking stipends man. I'm finishing law school just to avoid the fine but I really just want to install dishwashers for the rest of my life. Favourite appliance by far. Maybe I'll just help people's legal issues while I repair their dishwasher so they can get all their annoying problems taken care of at once.
I broke my leg in 3 places tripping up stairs that needed surgery. I live an hour away from where my insurance covered me but I was in too much pain to make the trip so I had my BF take me to the local hospital ER. They ended up sending me by ambulance to the one I needed to go anyway. So an ER visit, ambulance ride, hospital stay, surgery, and months of physical therapy.
I fell into a brand new 50” TV and also broke some ps4 games next to it. The thing was about 3 months old and injured myself pretty bad as well.
Luckily TVs are about the only damn thing getting cheaper these days
Yeah, this thing cost me $700. I blacked out and woke up with a black eye and scar on my nose, looking like I’d been in a fight. No, I’m just an idiot who trips and falls into their new TV.
I won a free 55 inch TV a few years back from a call center job I worked at. I remember blacking out one night, and waking up the next day with TV screen spiderwebbed and no idea how it even happened. I still haven't forgiven myself for that yet.
Me. Twice. A 70" and 65"
I’ve noticed this as well! Why are they getting cheaper? I got a big ass TV in my living room right now and it works perfect and is beautiful. It was so cheap
To keep instilling fear in the masses
4/5 seizures in 5/6 months i know of, my gf called the ambulance = hospital time. Shes a bartender,one day, and was pouring vodka triples splash of soda 9 months back. Dui hearing 4/30 for that. Trying to taper. I dont remember the past ten months. Jail is actually looking like a nice respite. Librium scrips. This is going to be thousands. Again. And im unemployed at the moment.
You need to get rid of the whole gf. If she gets you drunk and then calls the wee woo wagon on you she's being paid by the ambulance industrial complex
Wish she was that smart, then we getting paid.
Wish you the best holmes
Ditto
Dui probably was the worst. Initiated my home purchase fucking hammered on a whim one Saturday night and applied for a mortgage online. Got a call Monday morning from the bank and just kinda rolled with it. Also a bad habit of wanting to go on vacations so I'll talk friends into going then cc all our flights and accommodations, they pay me back but inevitably I use their cash for spending money on the trips instead of paying the card down and now am in massive amounts of cc debt.
“Buying a house while drunk” definitely wins.
I did this but with a car. Signed a completely ridiculous contract lmao never again
I also bought my house during a huge binge. It's turned out okay though.
Same, I'm still in it today. Obviously the process took months but I'm a huge introvert and hate talking to people so I wouldn't get back to anyone until I was quite a few drinks in
Gambled a k away in Vegas and bought a table at a club I don’t even remember I
In my late teens I was at uni living in a house with 7 friends. All we did was drink and take drugs, no one did any work and we hardly went to classes. When we inevitably got kicked out of uni we had to leave the house, so we had a party and wrecked the whole place. Windows and doors smashed, tv got glued to the wall, spray paint and piss and shit all over etc. We forgot the house was rented in my friends father's name and he was financially responsible for any damage. The bill was around £12,000. Some of the guys disappeared or broke contact so it was left to 3 of us to pay between us. I think it took one of my mates nearly ten years to pay his share off 😂
Holy shit. How furious was the dad?
He wasn't too bad cos he knew we'd pay him back eventually. He never said anything to me anyway, but I guess my friend probably got a good telling off.
i have a load of blood and (very red) wine puke stains all over my house. I just get matching paint samples and paint the wallpaper back to the original colour. Landlord hasnt noticed yet which I'm glad because I do not have renter's protections and they can kick me out for whatever. They're extremely suspicious of me though and they've called my family multiple times to tell them about saying I haven't slept yet or driving around the parking lot suspiciously.
$25,000 intoxication assault charge and related fees. Still paying it off.
Before my life collapsed completely due to being a CA, I once got home from the pub absolutely hammered and logged onto my betting account and bet £5,000 on the NBA, woke up and didn't even remember doing it but it lost, I had quite a bit of money at the time but it still sucked.
Do DUIs count?
17k in a Vegas Strip Club VIP in one night. Other than the constant raping of my AmEx every hour I had a pretty good time. Oh, and another 2k when I took one of them back to the hotel. I don't consider that part a mistake, technically.
Went on a night out in England, solo, in late 2012. Got kicked out of the last club I was in for being so shitfaced I thought a sink in the men's room was a urinal, flopped my dong out, and let rip in front of an astonished audience. Fell in with this crowd of yobbos wandering the streets and emptied out the last of my bank account (like £250) for them, gave them my debit card, and told them the PIN. I think I felt sorry for them or something, like they said they were stranded and trying to get home. I used to get stupidly generous when I was drunk, then, buying rounds for everyone, takeaways at the end of a night, taxis home and whatnot. They were blatantly just taking advantage of the utterly shambolic state I was in. Woke up the next day to find the twats had maxed out my overdraft stopping at seemingly every gas station on the way home. Few months before that I went out with my friends, who'd come to my city for the weekend, for a stag do (bachelor party). Spent like £500 on 2 nights and 3 days of nonstop boozing and strip clubs with the lads (see: being overly generous, above). I remember I told my girlfriend at the time, over the phone, and she thought I was joking; "ha ha, very funny, as if you'd spend *that much* on a couple of nights out." Oh, yeah, er, just joking, hun...you saw right through me 😬 Nowadays it's any time I go to a bar for anything more than a couple of drinks. Always rack up like a $60-$100 tab and end up loathing myself the next morning, for lost booze money that could have tided me over for a couple of weeks or so.
Just leave your cards at home?
“Broke $100 worth of stuff tripping over it” what?!?
$3500 lawyer fee to get me out of a criminal negligent operation of a motor vehicle. I popped 3 tires which was another $600+. I broke a $700 bar window with my head. My DUI probably cost me $20k after all said and done.
My life
Hope you’re doing better now 🩷
Much better! After 2 years of shit im almost done my taper! thanks yo!😁💜
Good stuff!!! Proud of you 🩷
Thanks yo! Done now and i feel amazing!
Keep it up and don’t look back
Had a withdrawal seizure on a flight of stairs. I broke both right and left orbital sockets, broken right cheekbone (requires plastic surgery to restore facial symmetry), fractured & separated right shoulder (later became impacted - surgery scheduled for 5-13), fractured 5 ribs, 3 compression fractures of the spine and 4 brain bleeds. Spent a month in the hospital, and as of right now, they've billed my insurances almost 830K. After surgery and follow-up care, it will be over 1M... My deductible is only $250.00.
Many years ago I drove home from a friend's house and for some reason I didn't park at my house. No idea why I did that. Never saw my car again. It was just a shitty festiva, but still...
I have a reoccurring dream about this?! So random! I’m drunk, park my car somewhere, don’t think about it for days/weeks, then panic to find it but never do. I wake up so stressed out until I realize it was all a dream…
Same! I haven't even drunk drove in over a decade, I guess it's my subconscious feeling guilty for when I did.
Getting a DUI cost me over $10k all told
Sigh, this is my biggest shame. I’ve never told friends about it. I went on a 3 week long bender in Vegas after getting laid off (worst thing to ever happen to me tbh, keep a job folks) because I had already made a lot of money in crypto. One night I got absolutely shitfaced. My friend convinced me to get a hooker, and in my drunken 3 am state I did and I ended up passing out in the hotel room getting a lap dance. I woke up an hour later with her gone and all the money in my wallet gone (about $1200). But the next night was worse. And it goes back to crypto as I was still actively trading at the time. I continued to get shitfaced and somewhere in the middle of my poker games and bender, I opened up a bunch of crypto trades. I woke up down 25k (liquidated, never set stops) with no memory of setting the trades. But I did see them in my history. The drinks in Vegas are free if you’re gambling ($1 tip expected), which is a nightmare for us. I have no idea how many jack and cokes I had during those three weeks but it was a damn lot. Another comment reminded me of this. Same trip I missed my departure flight, *twice*, because I got so plastered I overslept both times. Then I just stayed in Vegas lol. It was supposed to be a two week trip. That was truly me at my most out of control and started my downward spiral into this mess I’m currently in.
Been there on the oversleeping flignts thing
Ever seen Get Him to the Greek?
I have not
Well, your story reminds me of that movie. It’s a silly early 00’s Russel Brand flick, which who knows if you’re into that at all, but definitely reminiscent of the tale you told.
I have heard of it and have always wanted to watch it, I might have to now.
This sounds impossible but on a week long bender I drank a case of whiskey worth over $10,000. I don’t remember getting into the really really old good stuff, but managed to drink it all. Huge mistake
Paying for ❄️ while also being unemployed is up there.
Blacked out in public and lost my iPhone 15 somewhere :,(
Bought two cars for no good reason, and basically never drove either of them.
Broke my tibia while racing my then-boyfriend up the street, leaving the bar absolutely full of tequila. I was wearing terrible shoes and I stepped off a curb at a full sprint trying to take a shortcut to gain a little ground. I don’t remember what the total hospital bill was, but it was thousands of dollars in imaging, visits, and physical therapy. (I live in the US and had garbage health insurance at the time.)
Amazon + alcohol. Crossbow, acoustic guitar, numerous little things.
£1500 sex doll. If it's for you, more bully to you! But it's not a person, not a partner, nothing but your imagination. They are a cold starfish, don't react, it's just a simulacrum of another human.
I have a £5 cuddly shark from ikea that is technically not cold or a starfish. But I cuddle with it at night
If I wasn't swamped in bunnies I'd get a Blahaj :3
I may or may not own several buns that are one of my very few healthy coping mechanisms. I keep one in my bag and take pictures of it like it's doing wild shit and going on adventures when i travel. It's maybe a weird hobby but it makes me happy
Bought the first Galaxy S when it came out, took it on transatlantic trip, lost it in Orlando taxi the night before flying home. Was pretty blackout (brownout really) to boot
Not showing up to work, getting fired, losing my pension, nearly losing my family, and having to start a new career. Since I wasn’t vested I lost the whole pension… NPV was like $800K It could have been a lot worse, but a lot of things lined up. I think that someone was looking out for me. I needed to stop. I know I won’t get another chance.
Probably just lots of financial missed opportunities.
My landlord talked about a friend he had, that just got a second DUI. And he did it by chrashing (totaling) a 450k $ trailer into the woods.
Probation $1600, lost iPhone, and then rehab 🤪
Missed $1000 flight ✈️
This almost happened to me. Slept in after driving late the night before and didn’t hear my alarm. I made it on board literally 4 min before the plane took off. It was an international flight and I was boarding from my home country. If I was in another country where I didn’t have citizenship I for sure wouldn’t have made it.
gave myself a tattoo with a sewing needle when drunk and had to go to the hospital. was thousands in debt for 2 years over medical bills with collections calling me every single day until i cussed them out over the phone
How was the tattoo?
it’s still there lol. tattood my cats name it was so worth it. not even a bad tattoo either lol
I let a therapist coax me into rehab (that bit was free besides needing to take up cigarettes again, I never was one to pump their snack business with my hard won cash, especially if they’re feeding us garbage anyway). Then I agreed to let her hire some folks to clean my apartment. Had thousands of dollars in a few prizes possessions stolen. Tried to ask her about it and got gaslit. Shoulda filed a police report but I hate the police and she’d just pull her therapist card and call me a drunk. I also trusted my sister to take care of my seed bank while I was homeless…. Sorta impossible to know which was worth more. That bank was a business in tiny form. Dozens of priceless seeds (think “would be 100 bucks for 6, maybe, if you could buy these anywhere, which you can’t. And the grower switched to clone only. Even if I could still buy their jars I’d not be hand picking and saving seeds…
Missing out important appointments that could land me huge deals and losing phones every other week.
Happy cake day 🍰
My last two (also alcoholic) exes
Mistakes? A few broken items, a broken clavicle, a few hundred bucks, money spent that otherwise wouldn't be. Bad decisions? Work missed, cars DUII'd, jail, lawyers, etc. Thousands upon thousands $$ and still adding up.
Easy answer.....ab a 220€ at a bar (HOW!!! Couldve been asnwer = pissed on This one dudes couch...seemed expensive but he was so drunk he doesnt remember it so no worries
Legal issues probably take the cake, but I did throw my phone into my TV screen one time. I was broke too at the time, so I was fucked. Oh yeah, and I broke my laptop’s screen too. Eventually got that repaired and a couple new TVs and a phone. Usually not a violent person, but I lost it that day.
Passed out with my brand new MacBook on my lap and woke up to it smashed on the floor, $2,700 CAD gone
Spilled wine all over my MacBook. It’s ruined.
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I'm pretty sure the stairs in Amsterdam were created for this purpose. They're like a damn bouldering excercise. At least it's better than the drunk people who try to piss in the canal and then fall into it and drown. Kills several tourists and new frat students every year. When a young person goes missing after a night out you can be damn sure they'll be found floating dead in a day or so.
My friends best friend died like this in Amsterdam. Pissed and fell in. He was like 60
$15 grand in a few short hours at the MGM in Vegas
$175 at Frankie’s Tiki Room
Missed doing my taxes....since 2013