When OP's concerns are minimized by other Redditors
For convenience, I'm going to share my personal experience with my own concerns being minimized by Redditors.
A while ago I made a rant that even though I'm now sober, it doesn't mean I'm willing to be an automatic DD. This post was a rant directed at some friends of mine who like to close the bars down on the weekends, and then they try calling me at the witching hour to asking me to give them a ride home.
In summary, the comments I got were people saying "That's not a big ask." and "Buh you're already up!"
Like, I'm up because I got a phone call at 3 in the freaking morning, not because I wanted to get up at that time. Had the phone call never happened, I would still be sound asleep. Also in the same post, I mentioned that they wound up at a small town bar in BFE that would've been a 45 minute drive one way. That's absolutely a big ask...
I understand DUI's are costly, but at the end of the day they made the choice to bar crawl, not me. They dug themselves into the hole, they can use their own shovels to dig themselves out. Why not just get shitfaced drunk at home, where your bed is close by?
Some of us have jobs on the weekends, and every hour counts when it comes to sleep.
I know I'm going to get all sorts of replies telling me to silence my phone, but the thing is my half asleep brain doesn't register a 3AM phone call out of the blue as someone being too drunk to drive, My brain instantly jumps to the conclusion it's a true emergency for the phone call.
If it was a true emergency, that's a different story, I'll suck it up being tired at work to come to the rescue there.