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Old 03-15-2014, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by buggyone View Post
This is a town of around 100,000 residents. The very small number of DUI tickets given out leads me to think that it is NOT a big problem here. I have not observed many in my 4+ years here nor have I seen drunken rantings and ravings at any of the bars or town squares.

Police seem to do a lot more ticketing of speeders in cars or carts than for DUI.
There are probably more designated drivers available here for Seniors than elsewhere. I wonder what the AA numbers are for people around the Villages? In my own case, I do not drink so often wind up the designated driver in our party. Moreover, I disliked being drunk nor the taste of almost all booze. Getting my four degrees, for instance, I did drink socially while in law school as well as while getting my MA in Librarianship but rarely got inebriated. This drunkenness did happen once or twice at the University of Denver and I felt like such a fool the next morning, that now alcohol does not appeal to me.