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Watching Your Designated Driver Get Too Drunk To Drive Meme

This is a relatable humor meme using gameplay footage from the Grand Theft Auto franchise. White text is overlaid at the top reading 'Me watching the one guy who was supposed to take me home'. The scene shows a first-person POV, represented by a dark silhouette of a person in the foreground, watching a man in a light blue zip-up jacket and beige pants stumble around unsteadily, as if heavily intoxicated, in a nighttime outdoor area near a bar. A second shirtless character in red shorts stands near bar railings in the background. The joke relates to the common frustrating experience of having your designated driver get too drunk to safely drive, leaving you stranded without a ride home.
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Me watching the one guy who was supposed to take me home

Overview

This is a relatable humor meme using gameplay footage from the Grand Theft Auto franchise. White text is overlaid at the top reading 'Me watching the one guy who was supposed to take me home'. The scene shows a first-person POV, represented by a dark silhouette of a person in the foreground, watching a man in a light blue zip-up jacket and beige pants stumble around unsteadily, as if heavily intoxicated, in a nighttime outdoor area near a bar. A second shirtless character in red shorts stands near bar railings in the background. The joke relates to the common frustrating experience of having your designated driver get too drunk to safely drive, leaving you stranded without a ride home.

Origin notes

Per the provided source information, this meme was originally shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. The base footage is captured from Grand Theft Auto (most likely GTA 5 or GTA Online) gameplay, where characters can exhibit glitchy or drunk-style movement that perfectly illustrates the incapacitated designated driver in the relatable joke. The meme is a user-created edit that adds text to the existing game footage to make the humorous relatable point.

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