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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I once drove 4 hours to an overnight party my ole roommate was having. Went, saw my college buds, enjoyed some diabolical drinking and board games. Drove 4 hours home through awful traffic.

At home, I instantly realized I had left my laptop at my friend's. Contemplated jumping off the roof, drove 4 hours back to my buddy's, had a beer whilst regretting my existence, and drove back.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 6 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Drove six hours for pizza, ate, drove six hours back. It was a group of college friends with one insisting their home pizza was the best and making the rest of us hungry.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 hours ago

You can't just say that and not tell us if it was actually the best

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Same here, but for a hamburger and only a 5h tour overall.

Background: Someone stating that Burger King was better than MacDonalds, so we had to drive to the nearest one located at some US airbase.

[–] SkaraBrae@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

I had been awake for 36 hours and my mother insisted that I keep her company on a 5 hour drive to pick up her boyfriend. When she called I told her that I was going to bed. She turned up at mine to pick me up, anyway, and forced me into the car: I was too tired to resist. I slept all the way there and all the way back.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think I have heard that before...
Some film quote?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 hours ago

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing that worried me was the ether. And I knew we'd be into that rotten stuff soon enough. Probably at the next gas station.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

A bunch of us were going somewhere insignificant when we noticed someone had fallen asleep.

So, we did what any reasonable person would do and got on the first highway we found and drove the wrong direction.

Once we got somewhere we were pretty sure he wasn't familiar with, we pulled over at a local diner, woke him up and challenged him to guess where we were.

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

That actually sounds kinda fun

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net -2 points 5 hours ago

All of them but I fucking loathe cars (driving or being a passenger) so there is that

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Got onto the highway which goes from city a to z.

At around point y, took a u turn and right back.

Honestly it was just for the joke of it. Was still a lotta fun.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I did that with key west. Got one exit away and bailed. We ended up kayaking in mangroves instead. 10/10.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And the true treasure was the friends we made along the way

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was "the friends we ATE along the way."

Oh, no.

That is rather frowned upon I hear