Friends don’t let friends bear the burden of «designated driver» just because they’re sober, just like husbands don’t let wives become babysitters by default just because they’re women. Or that’s how it should be, anyway. In u/Dangerous_Strategy94‘s case, she had to resort to getting extremely high before a family gathering in order to avoid getting her nieces and nephews pawned off on her while the rest of her family goes off to party and get drunk. If it sounds like this has happened before, that’s because it has. Many times. Instead of accepting the taste of their own medicine, OP’s husband and in-laws got mad at her for having fun in her own home (for once). The nerve! Keep scrolling for the whole story.