I guess it was a wild night out last night for some people with St. Patrick’s Day being today. Yesterday evening I was on my way out for a client meeting and there was a BIG sobriety check point. As I rolled to a stop and lowered my window, the officer approached with “ma’am have you had anything to drink tonight?” to which I replied “absolutely not!” as I kicked up my SCRAM anklet in his view and shook my breathalyzer machine simultaneously. We both couldn’t help but laugh. Don’t get me wrong, drinking & driving is a serious matter but I doubt this guy has ever had that happen to him at a checkpoint before. And I needed the humor.
I went on about my way. Afterwards, I met up with a guy I’m seeing. When we kissed I immediately tasted beer/wine. I pulled back and my eyes got as wide as saucers! Even though I’ve been assured you’re able to be intimate with people that have consumed, I didn’t want to test that theory. It put an initial damper on the evening, but I thought, well, damage is done at this point, and it’s not supposed to be a problem, so…😈.
My best friend was relatively close to where I live and she was too intoxicated to drive. She stayed over at my place. I made sure I laid on my side with my monitored leg guarded by my bare leg, back to her. I didn’t want her to somehow accidentally set off my monitor. See how stupid neurotic this device will make you?
I did have a couple of instances, both Friday & Saturday nights where the power was tripped from my daughter dying her hair to her preferred shade of red (hair dryer, plus makeup light plus electric fireplace doesn’t work on my breaker apparently) and the base station went out and started beeping. I ran it out to my car and plugged it in since I have an AC adapter until I stabilized things inside. Once I even took it to another residence and sat and waited for my daily download there just to be safe. Now, the company knows I travel and the base, to my understanding, is really only used for the 2 am download, which I haven’t missed.
This afternoon, while out, the anklet started vibrating a bunch for a solid few minutes. As the days wear on, I don’t notice the audible noise/vibrations hardly ever, but when they’re in that much rapid succession I did wonder what was going on. Luckily, I was in the car, which requires me to blow into my breathalyzer every 5-15 minutes, so whatever was happening I have it recorded that I was at a 0.00 BAC for the 10 minutes prior, during and about 15 minutes after this occurred. As soon as I got home I went up to the home base box plugged into my bedroom to see if there was any sort of change. It still just said ‘monitoring’, as usual. I went back downstairs and a few minutes later it did it again - a bunch of vibrations in close succession. I ran back upstairs to look at the box. Still said ‘monitoring’. I haven’t noticed the device vibrate since and the light is glowing solid green on the anklet. This weird stuff is the type of occurrence that bolsters the paranoia around the device. I’m sure as the days roll forward and nothing happens because I haven’t done anything wrong I’ll learn to relax.
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