Now I don't condone drive driving in anyway but the last couple of days has pi$$ed me off.

On Saturday me and the Mrs went to a mates house for some food and drinks. So we could both drink we drove there and got a taxi back home (picking the car up the next day). The cab cost £15 , it was at 6:30pm Sat afternoon, just me and the Mrs and the journey was only 7 miles . We rung around other companies but that was the cheapest .

Then today we went to a pub and I drove. Obviously not wanting to drink and drive I drank Coke at bloody £2.90 a pint . It was cheaper to have a pint of lager/beer .

You do the right thing and get boned which ever way .

 

I've said for a while that boozers do nothing to help drink driving.

Lemonade/cola etc should be about a quid a pint.

Ah well, they're getting thier just desserts with loads of them shutting due to no-one getting in.

What a shame.

 

Yes, but drinking and driving can cost you more than a bone. So, you did the right thing. Well done getting a cab for 15 squid, and well done on driving Coca Cola-ed only

 

Agree with that Its painful to pay £2.90 for a pint of Coca Cola, even when one could be living within a walking distance from the pub.

 

*Demands Free soft-drink refills in pubs!*

If I ever have a pub (unlikely), thats what I'll do! I promise the Scoobynet massive!

 

Driving home after being on the coke all night can be worse than drink driving.

So I hear.

 

£15 for 7 miles is par for the course I hired part of a pub for my gal's 18th, a 20 min drive away. Booked a cab for a midnight return - 65 fecking notes

There was a TV prog some weeks ago about drink driving and they tested regular boozers after they had sunk a few. Astonishing results and I wish I could remember the exact details. Basically they could drink far more than you would guess and still be under the 35 limit. Almost an encouragement to take a chance. One of the girls who had half a dozen cocktails failed but a 6 pints of lager guy just passed and some fat old boozer who drank red wine by the vineyard hardly registered on the meter. Just adds to the confusion.

dl

 

i watched that...some bloke went well over 6 pints i think ! i would not find my car after 5 pints !

i get nervous if i even have a glass of wine and have to drive. My license is clean and i need it !

 

I thought Coca Cola did the right thing this year with buy 1 get 2 free on soft drinks at certain places.
At least they are trying to make a difference.

Sad that the pubs insist on ripping people off. Being a non drinker I have got used to the stupid prices.

 

Its just not worth doing,yesterday i went to football and before the game i had a pint of lager,then a pint of shandy,3hours later i still made the wife drive home.

 

Good man

 

If that's the case, why didn't you get hammered.

 

Because i was still hung over from the night before

 

Your lucky, allot of pubs up here you cant even get a pint of coke, its them stupidly priced crappy measures, made up mostly of ice.

I did a similar thread a wile back

 

Good enough.

 

Cheers

 

Absolutely spot on, that bag in box shoite costs like a penny a pint (or it did when I worked in the trade) I charged 50p a pint for soft drinks out the tap and that was when beer was £2 a pint, other bars round about were charging the same for bag in box soft drinks as they were for pints.... Madness!!

 

Anyone tried non-alcoholic beer? Jeeeeeeeez that stuff tastes awful..... dl

 

What fantastic responses in this thread. It is great to see everyone agreeing that drink driving is a big

It is absolutely disgusting the way pubs rip people off regarding soft drinks, but they have lost so much custom thanks to stopping folks having a *** I suppose they are looking at whatever they can to make a buck.
Also taxi fares are a joke. But, I would rather that than risk the tiniest drop of alcohol and then drive. I've seen the results

 

Shouldn't the title be:

Pubs are a rip-off, and taxis are a con lol.

 

I paid over £4 the other in a pub, btw. And it was only Heineken.

 

I still pay £1.65 in my old local for a pint of lager.

 

They have been at that price for 4 maybe 5 years,

 

Soft drinks have always been a rip off and pubs try to justify it, the basic problem is that soft drinks have so much gas that most people can only drink 1 or 2 pints of them in an evening but once on the alcohol they will drink 5 or 6 pints in and evening so pubs dont want people drinking soft drinks do they!

 

Or that they are just a con to make money?

My reason is the answer - my brother runs a pub.

 

This is what i can't understand. With today's technology, WHY isn't it possible to make a drink taste exactly like a top brand lager but without the alcoholic content? Surely the breweries, facing the collapse of the pub industry around them, would have a vested interest in producing such a product?? Or is it just impossible to do, anybody know?

 

Anyone with a pub must be crying their hearts out at night. to have someone sit there for a hour keeping warm and using your facilities with one pint is not a great way to make a profit !! same with coffee shops. people sit there thinking its a library . when you think of what it must cost to run a pub per hour, most pubs must be losing money every day.

 

In my home town; St Helens, the greatest town on the planet, the town centre is hosting a festive offer where the proven designated driver gets free draught soft drinks :
Taxis over Yule in this magnificent town are normal rates except bank hols and xmas / new years eve's....