11pm: After picking up a new client from Finz in Sandringham we are cruising along beach road towards Mordialloc. We are chatting along about the business and how the idea came to my mind initially.
I told him Marian and I were getting married two years ago and were looking for ways to go home safely for our guests after the reception.
Unfortunately, there wasn't anything but hiring a bus or taking cars:((
Why would you sit in a bus at 1am and have to go all over Melbourne for hours before being dropped off at your house? (and that is with taking a taxi on the way up to the wedding location then take another one to the reception location... a fortune + a real fun killer!)
The only option left was to have a designated driver... now, honestly, who wants to be a designated driver on a wedding day? (another fun killer if you like to have a good time and enjoy free drinks)
After a thorough google search the result was... a worl wide web of nothingness!.. and that's how the idea started to germinate in our minds.
Sadly that year, we also lost a good friend in a road accident and this was the final trigger that got us to think: "What about we drive people back home in their own cars after parties - no more drink drivers on the roads?"
A dream maybe but that's what we are hoping to achieve... one day!
Did I divert a little from the initial story?
So... We arrive in Beaumaris and guess who's on the road stopping every single car?
Yep, the BOOZE BUS and a massive cohort of cops with breathalizers.
Just few words came out of my client's mouth
"...and that would have been my licence gone!!"
The irony is that they let me drive through without breathalizing me!!
Don't drink and drive.
Cheers
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