The how did you get home new years eve thread?

Alter-Ego · 01-01-2010 04:26PM

Got the luas home. Would have been quicker walking.

xxlilyxx · 01-01-2010 04:29PM

i was in a pub bout 20mins away from my house, i waited to see if id get a taxi, then end up walkin for bout 10mins and my friends das friend collected us he's a taxi driver and i went to a party and walked home from the party then, i was freezin, no jacket or nothin haha

tigerlilyblue · 01-01-2010 05:58PM

Town was lethal! Half the people in Dublin find it difficult to stand up after a night out anyway minus the ice so with the ice it was madness. I have to say though the girls did a good job in their heels. Saw one guy slip and fall when crossing the road and his head was bleeding.
Got a lift from a friends brother in the end- much appreciated and on the way on two separate occasions people thought it would be funny to push their friends onto the road and in front of the car congrats to anyone who drove through town without killing anybody! I couldn't have done it!!

Zwillinge · 01-01-2010 06:33PM

Was in a nightclub in Dunboyne, Meath... Was a good bitta craic but trying to get home was tough going.
We walked towards main road and there was zilch going. So we went back to my friends grandparents house in the snow. We sat in their kitchen, eating toast and pears while trying to ring a taxi company to bring us back to Blanchardstown. Most were unavailable, ringing out, had no taxis available and roads were blocked.
Then my friend said "We shall go to the road" in a very determined voice. Amazingly a taxi arrived :eek: Even he said he was just about to turn off his light and go home. Took us €30 and we got home at 5am.... 2 hours ringing about taxi companies for nothing, sobered us up though, no hangovers

And my friend made it to work at 9 this morning :cool:

jellie · 01-01-2010 06:37PM

couldnt get a taxi. gave up and got a hotel room for the night.

Giblet · 01-01-2010 06:42PM

Had a house party so, I was already home. Carpets are a mess though

ashyle · 01-01-2010 06:46PM

I didn't go home and got a lift to work .. sweet

PCPhoto · 01-01-2010 07:12PM

sar84 wrote: »

couldnt get a taxi. gave up and got a hotel room for the night.

no recession for you !!!

wyndham · 01-01-2010 07:25PM

PCPhoto wrote: »

no recession for you !!!

Hotels are cheaper than taxis.

Pythia · 01-01-2010 09:11PM

Wasn't planning to drink so had the car. Went home about 20km/h from D14 to D16. Was in town today, saw a lot of girls obviously walking home after getting stuck last night.

P_1 · 01-01-2010 09:21PM

Hung about in McDonalds on O'Connell Stret till about 6 then a fight brike out. Hopped onto an Aircoach to the airport and got myself a taxi home from there.

Town was fcuking leathal, like a bloody ice rink.

Dravokivich · 02-01-2010 09:46PM

was in dublin, finished the night at a mates...walked out from blessinton st usually handy to get a taxi there... no joy... down to o'connell st... cue...

walked around to the four courts managed to grab 1 there before having to walk home...

roads were all in bits so the taxi had to go slow thus pushing the fair up an extra 10'r

fair juice to the driver going out to Carpenterstown at 7am...

- Drav!

craggles · 02-01-2010 09:47PM

I walked back to Tallaght from Malahide.

I win.

Dravokivich · 02-01-2010 09:49PM

craggles wrote: »

I walked back to Tallaght from Malahide.

I win.

er no... i recon that kinda sucks man...

- Drav!

Dardania · 02-01-2010 09:58PM

Duff wrote: »

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:

Ouch...harsh

stripysocks85 · 02-01-2010 11:43PM

Boyfriend had the car, sweet!

Otherwise, I really don't know. Was only very few taxis about, and even we skidded and were going literally 10 MPH. . . .

It is true however - Irish people [in general] do NOT know how to drive in ice/snow etc and some fools even think you can still go normal speed!

Sephiroth_dude · 02-01-2010 11:45PM

I walked home in the cold for 10 miles..........

smcelhinney · 03-01-2010 02:11AM

craggles wrote: »

I walked back to Tallaght from Malahide.

I win.

Are you for real? I once walked from Rathmines to Donabate during college, literally not a penny, and didnt have the courage to appear at my ould dears doors at 5am looking for taxi money. Kudos to you sir for doing that in the ice and snow.

Me, I walked home a paltry 5 or 6 miles in the ice. No big deal. Wasnt like I was that buckled anyhow.

DubLass · 03-01-2010 02:28AM

A taxi driver said he'd bring my brother from Dorset street to finglas for a hundred euro. I wish he took his number

Cupcake_Crisis · 03-01-2010 02:28AM

We walked from kilinarden to the square, then i found a tenner in the snow so we got a taxi

craggles · 03-01-2010 02:36AM

smcelhinney wrote: »

Are you for real? I once walked from Rathmines to Donabate during college, literally not a penny, and didnt have the courage to appear at my ould dears doors at 5am looking for taxi money. Kudos to you sir for doing that in the ice and snow.

Me, I walked home a paltry 5 or 6 miles in the ice. No big deal. Wasnt like I was that buckled anyhow.

Yeah it was fairly harsh, took six hours, had a nice hot shower when I got in then slept for the day

entropi · 03-01-2010 02:58AM

I didn't get home until around 8pm on New Years Day lol, still took an hour to walk from Killester through to where i live in town...

D-K · 06-01-2010 01:58AM

Couldn't get a taxi home so I stayed at a friends house with a few others. Ended up in bed with a girl I have been mad after for a while! Thank you icy roads!

sunrise91 · 06-01-2010 02:20AM

We ordered a taxi bus to and from town. Took me 2 hours to get home and I only live 15 minutes away.. Mainly because the taxi man took the most arseways journey home to avoid the icy roads. Still, it only cost €5 and I was still locked by the time I got home..:D

Pyr0 · 06-01-2010 02:46AM

I didn't actually get home until 3 days after New Years, I had the pleasure of staying in hospital with an arm snapped in two. The ice decided it wanted a little company on the ground New Years morning..

God I hate ice.

:mad:

dolliemix · 06-01-2010 02:51AM

Jaysus! I think you win the thread alright!

06-01-2010 03:08AM

I'm trying to think. But I can't remember. Hmm. Did I even go home? Hang on.. Oh yeah got a taxi home with friends that I went to school with. Turned out the taxi driver they called was my next door neighbour and he didn't make me pay. Sweet!

Piste · 06-01-2010 03:24AM

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. If ye read this I mean nutters in the nicest possible way Cold down here but no snow or icey roads thankfully.

Aw it's nice to know there are people like you in the world

I spent two hours wandering around Dublin looking for a taxi, until finally I was so cold and miserable I texted my boyfriend and he let me stay in his flat in town. Didn't wake up until about half 4 the following afternoon, I thought it was 8am cos of the pale light and red streaks in the sky. Turns out it was twilight, not dawn!

hinault · 06-01-2010 03:31AM

Took the S-Bahn from the Marianplatz to the Haupbanhof !

(I was in Munich for New Years Eve:)).

petes · 06-01-2010 08:31AM

Took me about eight minutes to walk home at six in the morning. Party I was at wasn't far from where I live. Nice one.

Tried to go out for a few New Years Day but after a number of pints was a wee bit too merry (topping up) and had to go home to bed!

The how did you get home new years eve thread?

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