(17-11-2012, 01:23 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: Also in my experience drink drivers arent poshos, they're entirely lower middle class, the sort of person with a job and a criminal record.
Not quite right, that's just the ones you catch.
The "poshos" have been doing it since they were old enough for daddy to give them the keys after a few cinzanos and, truth be told, probably couldn't drive sober. I have been to a few "county" gatherings, everyone arrives by car and i've only seen one completely sober - a tee-total guy known as a bit of a loner...Tbh i do agree with Dum-dum's earlier point though; with insurance costing 3-5 grand in the first year and petrol rapidly approaching £1.50/l, how can people complain that another couple of hundred on the cost of learning to drive will make the blindest bit of difference?
And if people are concerned by the prospect of failing the retest and losing their jobs, maybe they'll make more effort to drive like a decent human being...