[James Boston]

I generally agree with your interpretation. A few modifications though-

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Group leaves restaurant (all persons through door threshold) and shotgun is called, the call is VALID.

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Failure to leave the facility (restaurant in this case) in a timely manner waves your rights to be included in the group opportunity to call shotgun. In other words, you can't claim someone else's call is bogus just because you were still inside.

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Group parks car before eating and shotgun is called for the ride home, the call is NOT VALID.


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Any call of shotgun 5 minutes prior to departure is void. I agree.

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For drunk driving situations and owner of vehicle is not driving, after SHOTGUN is called, owner may call OWNERSHIP, which supercedes shotgun. (Especially handy for the short guy in question).


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This isn't exclusive to drunk driving. Ownership always trumps shotgun.

One other arguement I've seen. A is driving. B is riding shotgun. They're picking up C, D, E, etc... C calls shotgun to D-Z, unaware that B is already in the car. B retains shotgun. I almost got in a fight over this in college.