... and waited until my BAC was significantly under the legal limit, before driving.

And there's the problem. I'm not trying to single you out nor direct this post directly at you... but this mindset we seem to have in America about "Well, I'm under the legal limit so I must be OK" is, frankly, appalling.

Just because a driver's blood alcohol content is less than some arbitrarily chosen number that is, in the opinion of a great many knowledgeable people, set far too high, does not mean that that driver is not impaired!

How much impaired? A lot? Just a little? From my admittedly hard-core perspective, any impairment is too much.

tanstaafl.