You can push your limits. If you find yourself too drunk to avoid showing your tells, practice overcoming them. You may ask your sober buddy to evaluate you. Practice acting sober while drunk until you can pull it off successfully to your sober buddy. Not all venues are conducive to your acting sober. Acting sober at a bar is far different than acting sober at a traffic stop or in front of angry parents. If you push your limits, you may not be able to act sober at the same rate in every scenario. When you know you are potentially moving to a new scenario, let your drunkenness wear off a little more before attempting to act sober. When you are pulled over there are certain tests the authorities may use to test your sobriety short of a breathalizer. Many of these tests are designed to be increasingly difficult the more drunk you are. The novelty of these scenarios means if you are not practiced, you may find yourself too nervous to act sober. Be sure to have a sober person evaluate you. Let them study the behaviors a law enforcement agent will be looking for. Then they can accurately tell you what you are doing wrong to the best of their ability. Some bodily behaviors give you away because they are unavoidable. Even when you learn to control yourself enough to act sober, your body may not act as sober as you want it to. A breathalyzer test may reveal that your body has not metabolized alcohol as fast as you wished it would. The vocal cords, eye muscles, and legs may not perform the way a sober person's would. Whenever your body is acting beyond your ability to hide your drunkenness, avoid scenarios where they may give you away. If you are pulled over by a police officer, you should submit to their requests. Refusing to perform a field sobriety test or blow into a breathalizer is generally a bad idea. By acquiring your license you may provide implicit consent. Refusing to cooperate with law enforcement may earn you additional citations.

Summary: Practice overcoming your tells while drinking. Keep your context in mind when trying to act sober. Practice field sobriety tests. Avoid scenarios where it's impossible to pretend to be sober.

Run down to your local hardware store and purchase a can of WD-40. WD-40 is a common household lubricating oil that can be used on everything from bicycle chains to door hinges. If your lock isn't in real bad shape, a little squirt of WD-40 will probably be all you need. WD-40 is generally a great product to have on hand whenever there's an immediate need for an all-purpose lubricant, although it will eventually dry out and need to be reapplied. Avoid using any lubricants that aren't appropriate for home improvement use, such as cooking, botanical or sewing machine oil. Most oils will just attract dust that then forms new layers on the locking mechanism, making the problem worse. Hook up the red applicator straw that comes included with the can of WD-40. These straws are thin and flexible and fit right over the opening of the nozzle where the oil comes out. The addition of a straw will allow you to penetrate deep into the inner workings of the lock, lubricating it more effectively. Some newer containers of WD-40 feature permanently-attached straws. Keep an eye out for these, as they're just what you need. A straw will also keep the spray of the lubricant confined inside the lock where you want it, rather than all over your front door. Place the end of the straw into the opening of the lock where you normally insert your key. Guide the straw as far in as you can to make sure you're hitting every part of the locking mechanism that might be sticking with the WD-40. Press down on the button on the rear of the WD-40 canister to begin releasing the lubricant into the lock. Don't be afraid to use a liberal amount of oila sticky lock needs the attention. Hold down the spray button until the WD-40 begins to overflow from the lock opening. Wearing gloves while handling lubricants can help prevent a slippery mess. Let the WD-40 sit for a few minutes. This will give it a chance to start breaking down the dust and dirt accumulated inside the lock that's impairing its movement. Once it's had some time to set up, slide your key in and out of the lock a few times and observe how smoothly it moves. If it doesn't meet resistance, your work is done. If the lock still sticks a bit, you may need to try a more heavy-duty lubricant such as powdered graphite. Make sure you've properly coated each part of the locking mechanism by running through the locking and unlocking action a few times. After you've applied WD-40 to the lock, the interior pins should disengage with no resistance and the cylinder should easily rotate when you turn your key. Lubricate the locks around your home with WD-40 regularly to keep them maintained.

Summary: Buy a can of WD-40. Attach the applicator straw to the nozzle of the can. Insert the straw into the opening of the lock. Spray the WD-40 into the lock. Test the lock.

The GIMP app icon resembles a dog-like face holding a paint brush in its mouth. GIMP may take a few minutes to open if you haven't recently opened it. Click File in the top-left corner of the window (Windows) or the screen (Mac), then click Open... in the drop-down menu, select an image to open, and click Open. You can repeat this process for multiple photos if you want to layer the transparent image over a non-transparent one. If you open a second image in a second window, select it, press Ctrl+C (or Command+C on Mac), select the first image, and press Ctrl+V (or Command+V. This tab is at the top of the window (or the screen if you're on a Mac). A drop-down menu will appear. It's near the top of the Windows drop-down menu. Selecting it prompts a pop-out menu. You'll find it near the top of the Dockable Dialogs pop-out menu. A small "Layers" window will open. Click the name of the image that you want to edit. It should be in the middle of the "Layers" window. Click and drag the "Opacity" slider at the top of the window to the left, or click the downward-facing arrow next to it to lower the opacity. Make sure that you're monitoring your image while lowering the opacity. Lowering the opacity from 100 to 50 should be enough to make your image transparent. Click the X in the top-right (Windows) or top-left (Mac) corner of the "Layers" window. It's at the top of the GIMP interface. A drop-down menu will appear. You'll find this option near the bottom of the Image drop-down menu. Doing so "flattens" the image, thus preserving its transparency. The default export settings will save your project as a JPG, but you'll need to change this in order to maintain your image's transparent background: Click File. Click Export As.... Find the file's name at the top of the export window. Change the "jpg" part of the file's name to "png" (for example, "bear.jpg" would become "bear.png"). Click Export at the bottom of the window, then click Export when prompted.
Summary: Open GIMP. Open an image in GIMP. Click Windows. Select Dockable Dialogs. Click Layers. Select your image. Lower the "Opacity" value. Exit the "Layers" window. Click Image. Click Flatten Image. Export your project as a PNG file.