The how did you get home new years eve thread?

dolliemix

I went into town (Dublin) tonight. Then it snowed like mad and when I tried to go home there were no taxis on dame street. "No problem" says I. "I'll queue up on stephens green". No taxis on stephens green - but fortunately for me the luas was still running (3.30? didn't know it ran that late) So I get the luas and walk the rest of the way. Slush and ice everywhere - took me double the time to get home. But I am home. My friends however, are stuck in town and no sign of them getting home. Taxis have given up. The snow all looks beautiful but very dangerous and I reckon majority of taxis have just headed home as conditions are really dangerous. I feel I'm one of the lucky ones to have made it home tonight........

gavkm27

''No Problem'' Says you,nice

Me-well i'm sat on me arse here in Canada and it's snowing like a nuns clackker outside and i'm considering staying in for the night,but they can handle the aul snow here in canada and the place keeps going,not like at home

ciano1

Friends Father!! In an Audi!! SORTED !!!! :D:D

Sharpshooter

The roads are really bad alright, glad to see you got home safe dolliemix.

It snowed though.

/luv that about today...

imeddyhobbs

i wish i was out tonight,you sound like you had a good night?

kallstrom86

I was in work. Driving home was really bad and there were loads of drunken people stepping out onto the icy roads thumbing for lifts!

super_furry

Decided to be clever and leave town (Dublin) at 1.30am to get a cab but ended up having to walk to the KCR which took over an hour before one stopped. Home and cold now.

congo_90

I drove.
Hard to avoid drunken idiots on naas road, people who don't know how to drive in snow etc. M50 was 'interesting'. As there was no visible road markings people were driving as if it was one large lane. scary to think of it that way and stopping at lights at even 10km/h was a bitch if sudden enough.
I prayed a bit that noone would be too hurt tonight. 4 ambulances passed at different times of the journey.
Nothing says cop on to a 19 yo male like seeing a car wrapped around a pole, someone crying and e.s all over the place. A tragic end to someones night

Danbo!

Had a session in my house and laughed as everyone wondered how they would get home

dolliemix

ciano1 wrote: »

Friends Father!! In an Audi!! SORTED !!!! :D:D

Well pick my friend up. Just on to her - she's still trying to get home....:D

I was out in Cork tonight, I don't drink so was driving home, two nutters hopped in the car :eek: thinking I was a taxi, they were living about 3 minutes from my place so I dropped them home, I declined the invite to join them for a cup of tea, that's my good dead done for the year. If ye read this I mean nutters in the nicest possible way Cold down here but no snow or icey roads thankfully.

jd007

I rang my daddy!!!! theres nbo way he coulkdnt tell
i was drunkj!!!

Bajingo

Class night I had to say but worst trip home! Rang 5 taxi companies knowing it wouldnt get me anywhere ..

Walked for about an hour and a half in the home direction with my hand out the whole way..no joy until im about half an hour from my house I finally get a taxi I was glad of it but im still freezing sitting in bed here good luck to everyone tonight I hope ya's had a good one and get home safe it's dangerous out there at the moment!

dolliemix

It was like night of the snow zombies. Everytime I looked out of the luas there were drunk people slipping on the ice

Sharpshooter

Drunk people will tend to slip anyway.:p

Don't go blaming the ice, or in my area the snow.:p

questionmark?

Got a lift home in my bosses 4x4!

imeddyhobbs

dam it sure is cold out there,hope everybody is warm now!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Was there a shortage of taxi's tonight, can't say I noticed!.

Just in the door, nice and warm too

Happy New Year everyone.

Agent Smith

jd007 wrote: »

I rang my daddy!!!! theres nbo way he coulkdnt tell
i was drunkj!!!

Quoted for hillarity

CrazySka

Taxi company said it'd be an hour for cab so walked onto road and got one in about ten, while I wouldnt want to be driving in that snow it made the night for us.
Great craic on the way back from pub with snowballs, snow's great if you dont have to work in the morning.

Clare_Guy

Agent Smith wrote: »

Quoted for hillarity

It is hilarious though...

I'm in kilkee, no snow but it is freezin' and we've no oil so I'm on fire (back-boiler) watch! Happy new year boardies! :-D

5starpool

dolliemix wrote: »

I went into town (Dublin) tonight. Then it snowed like mad and when I tried to go home there were no taxis on dame street. "No problem" says I. "I'll queue up on stephens green". No taxis on stephens green - but fortunately for me the luas was still running (3.30? didn't know it ran that late) So I get the luas and walk the rest of the way. Slush and ice everywhere - took me double the time to get home. But I am home. My friends however, are stuck in town and no sign of them getting home. Taxis have given up. The snow all looks beautiful but very dangerous and I reckon majority of taxis have just headed home as conditions are really dangerous. I feel I'm one of the lucky ones to have made it home tonight........

This is why I stayed in.

Atavan-Halen

A taxi like 10 mins ago and i slipped right in frony of it :P I'm a bit drunk adswell :P

CrazySka

Queuing for a taxi on Stephens green right now would be hell.

sdanseo

Got home in my own car, verrrrryyy slowly. An hour and the rest from Killester to Swords and back to Malahide, here.

Got stuck for 5 mins on the artane roundabout, car just wouldnt move, took full hammer down and 2 mates as well as a random stranger pushing the car to get going again, all in the middle of a fairly major junction.

My mate creamed himself on the ice though so it was worth it :P

Clare_Guy

sdonn wrote: »

My mate creamed himself on the ice though so it was worth it :P[/QUOTE

WOW, your friend REALLY likes ice, I'd stay away from him for the next few days... It could get awkward?!
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Jim

Taxi from Glasnevin to Kilmainham. Car got stuck on a hill coming onto James St. ****ing asshole behind uss procceded to get right into the back of us and started beeping for 5 minutes while we skid on the ice. He then overtook us shaking his head while doing so.

I don't understand some people.

sdanseo

Clare_Guy wrote: »

sdonn wrote: »

My mate creamed himself on the ice though so it was worth it :P

WOW, your friend REALLY likes ice, I'd stay away from him for the next few days... It could get awkward?!

FYP, quoting while drunk isn't recommended :rolleyes:

Sharpshooter

Jim wrote: »

Taxi from Glasnevin to Kilmainham. Car got stuck on a hill coming onto James St. ****ing asshole behind uss procceded to get right into the back of us and started beeping for 5 minutes while we skid on the ice. He then overtook us shaking his head while doing so.

I don't understand some people.

That was a bit crass tbh.
What would it have cost him to get out and help?

Look, forget him and Have a Happy New Year.:)

Clare_Guy

sdonn wrote: »

FYP, quoting while drunk isn't recommended :rolleyes:

Isn't this one of those threads that the mods create specifically for drunken posts?!...

Atavan-Halen

WOO! drunken posting !

phlegms

Spent half an hour desperately trying to hail a taxi but to no avail.. Then started walking home from Grafton street to fairview (where I saw 3 different taxis loose control coming round that corner, luckily no one was hurt), up through clontarf and then on to Raheny. It took ages and I was fecking freezing. Still debating if the night was worth the effort or not..

Sharpshooter

CrazySka wrote: »

Queuing for a taxi on Stephens green right now would be hell.

Only when it freezes over.

Clare_Guy wrote: »

Isn't this one of those threads that the mods create specifically for drunken posts?!...

Nope, wrong thread.:p

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783246

Happy New Year though.

me_right_one

Who cares?

I'm still not home, so fcuk it, I'm driving!

Clare_Guy

atavan-halen wrote: »

WOO! drunken posting !

If you think that's good?!? I have it on good authority that tonight was a ''blue moon'', only happens once every 19 years! *












*may or may not be true.

Sharpshooter

Clare_Guy wrote: »

If you think that's good?!? I have it on good authority that tonight was a ''blue moon'', only happens once every 19 years! *

*may or may not be true.

Once in a blue moon?

I think you mean the Lunar Eclipse.:pac:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783659

But do you really care at this stage?:D

Clare_Guy

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Once in a blue moon?

I think you mean the Lunar Eclipse.:pac:

http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783659

But do you really care at this stage?:D

Like I said, I have it on good authority...

My ''spider-sense'' tells me a lunar eclipse is even more rare, or at least, not as regular event...

Pdfile

i drove home and slept through new years

JangoFett

I walked home, only a 25 minute walk, and then went to a bit of a get together, there was only 5 of us and played the Wii until about half 5

Duff

Planned on going back to my mates house after the club. I was outside talking to this girl I was with inside when my ex spies me from across the road and decides to board the crazy train and come over to me and go ape. Needless to say I swiftly left the two of them and rang me auld one to pick me up. :pac:

Spore

And yes, I feel off my mother fuckin bike

citizen_p

i got kicked out of a pub 3 times... then i walked around the town looking for a gaf party

and then walked 2 miles home because i was snowed in, and knew taxis wouldnt go up there

Shoota

Was in a car driving from portlaoise, we heard there was snow in Dublin, we laughed because there was none when we left at 8.30pm, until we got to Naas where we encountered the damn snow!!

We were hoping to be home for the countdown but it took forever to get into town from there on the n7, Newlands cross was a white nightmare :eek: then driving my own car took 45 minutes from town to blanch, alot of people with no clue how to drive in the snow alright, and that weird dip in the road just before the m50 roundabout was causing bedlam.......

Misty Chaos

I changed my plan and stayed in town instead of the city. So, I didn't need to worry about getting home at all as I live in town anyway.

Better craic that St Steven's night.

Sea Sharp

i stayed on some1's couch and then walked home at 12 o' clock today.

sky88

walked home fell on the road my asscheek is killing me good times

Papad

RoverJames wrote: »

I was out in Cork tonight, I don't drink so was driving home, two nutters hopped in the car :eek: thinking I was a taxi, they were living about 3 minutes from my place so I dropped them home, I declined the invite to join them for a cup of tea, that's my good dead done for the year.

So you killed them!

RMD

Couldn't get a taxi so walked 40 minutes from one party to another, had to walk home from there as well which took 1 hour 10 minutes since I was walking people home, ****in taxi drivers.

Couple of friends were heading up to Howth summit in the middle of the snow, taxi man spent 10 minutes slowly skidding down the hill backwards before they gave up and went somewhere else.

Vinta81

Left the club early to get a taxi...no taxis anywhere Sat on a railing by a taxi rank for nearly 40 mins, shoes off(they were new), frost bitten and this lady came up to me asked me where I was headed, told her...her boyfriend was a taxi driver she rang him and he came and collected me!!! I swear some people can be so kind! I paid of course, although he wouldn't take it, left a tenner on the seat, bless him.

dylano_k

Got a taxi back to my mates but his brother got stuck in town til 8 this morning and me and his da had to drive in and get him....was funny on the way back looking at all the people waiting on a bus

Bus stop wánkers

Cianos

Drove from Cork to Dublin, thankfully the roads only turned bad as I got in to Dublin after midnight :mad:. Was cool (!) the M50 being one big white lane. Dodgy though, especially the downhills.