"...when the man is absent, the partners have a break from each other..."

Holy cannoli. There are some truly inane excuses for drinking and driving posted on this thread, but this one tops the list. What kind of a "break" does the woman in this partnership get when she's stuck at home while her man takes the car out to go drinking? ...when her man comes home boozed up and ready to fight with her? ...when her man doesn't come home because he's been arrested for drinking-and-driving or, worse, when he has an accident with the car and gets himself and/or someone else killed?

Good grief, Schweik. You're scraping the bottom of the barrel of excuses this time.