Reciting the alphabet backwards

I’m very baffled by police officers. I haven’t been pulled over yet in my young driving tenure, but I’ve seen TV shows & movies and I heard stories that when cops pull over a driver they suspect is drunk, they will subject him to several tests, one of which is reciting the alphabet backwards.

I tried reciting the alphabet backwards once. I got up to V. I thought some more. Then I got mixed up somewhere around the R-S-T combo. I failed miserably. Maybe I was drunk.

Or maybe that test is ridiculous. A sober person would need to think hard in order to recite the alphabet backwards. The only way I could recite the alphabet backwards is if I carved it out on my forehead with a switchblade and used a reflective surface to read it back.

Cops might as well ask the suspected driver to bunny-hop across a pool filled with alligators on a unicycle while balancing a stick which has on the end of it a spinning basketball.

It’s all nonsense. All they need is a breathalyzer and they could possibly ask a person to walk the length of a straight line. If they pass, they’re sober. If they fail the straight line walk test, they’re either drunk, or just plain stupid.

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