Never thought of it that way. She would be alive had she stayed making out with some guy.
Although, my dad never bought the “I’ll come home at 8 am when it’s light out and it’s safer” line.
So the message I take away from this (and would have as a teenager as well) is that it doesn’t matter whether I drink or not at the party, I have an equal chance at getting plowed into by a drunk driver afterwards. So I say drink it up and pass out in some stranger’s laundry room.
If you’d written this, would you sue for infringement?
Deck the boards with tales so weepy
Fa la la la la, la la la laaaa
'tis the season to be glurgy
Fa la la la la, la la la laaaa
GOD that was painful. Too bad it didn’t say that the drunk driver was little Billy who is waiting for a tonsil transplant and is dying of ovarian cancer that is spreading in his lungs.
There are a few others like that circulating at this time of year - gramma sends them to me. Bless her cotton socks, she means well (just like the OP above).
As for me? I’m just a cynical bitch, is all.
E.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to pretend I didn’t read anything.
What are you all complaining about?
So Mini2U (he’s 13) and I are sitting here together. I made him read this. His comments? Let’s just say I may have to take him in to the ER seeing as how his eyes rolled so far back in his head they haven’t come back yet. He’s alternately laughing, snickering, and trying not to choke on Chef Boyardee Ravioli.
He also agreed that it is really, really bad poetry. He suggested the writer take a class in remedial rhyming.
Do. Not. Spam. The. Fucking. Boards. With. Inane. Poetry.
http://www.nobac.org/innocent.html
please note the copyright info at the bottom.
I sternly instructed my teenager and her boyfriend not to drink when they went out tonight. They solemnly promised they’d just stick to the drugs.
And I believe them.
Wow. As a teenager, I can honestly say I’ve never seen a lamer attempt at convincing teens not to drink. And I’ve had to sit through school assemblies devoted to this sort of thing.
Nobody ever seems to mention that the odds of getting hit by a drunk ADULT while driving home from a movie is about the same.
I’ve seen that so many times in Dear Abby and Ann Landers it ain’t funny.
It’s so old, it could apply for Social Security at this point!
Yeah, gotta watch out for those… loads. They can be dangerous, loads.
:rolleyes:
Ok, I am a teenager. Im not saying I drank tonight, but the Coors company is a bit richer this morning. We had a DD, as we always do. All of us got home safe.
My mother went out with a coworker. She drank Pepsi, coworker drank Rum and Coke. Coworker got in a car, with alcohol in system, and drove home. Would NOT let my mother take her home. This pissed me off. We were being more responsible by designating the driver than she was by risking our lives…
Teens 1, Parents 0.
I thought the one in Dear Abby or whatever was prose, and it was something called Seventeen. “Please, God, I’m only 17!”
Anyway, I agree that the poem is too lame to be of much good to your average teenager.
Aside from the eye-rolling cheeziness, probably the biggest point against it is that the kid did the right thing and still ended up being hamburger on the highway. We all have to learn that life is unfair, but an icky poem isn’t much help in that regard.
However, here in Denver in recent years, there have been some horrible car crashes involving teens. Just a few blocks away from here, a drunk neighbor boy, age 18, slammed into a tree on New Year’s Eve two years ago, killing one of his passengers and injuring two others.
We’ve got the scar on that tree to remind us about drunk driving–it also serves as a grim reminder of the pitfalls of getting into a car driven by a drunk.
Ok Cajun Man and other dopers. I humbly and sincerely apologise. I now feel incredibly embarrassed by posting it in the first place. I stuffed up. Sorry. I’m now hoping this thread will die a fast and natural death.
I can assure you I shall lay low from hereon in.
DOn’t worry about it wendyrules.
Happens even in the best familes.
I’m sure you had good intentions with posting this, so I’d say there is no need to feel embarrassed. 
The author sucks. Just thought I’d toss that in. WHY use “Mom” every 5th word? ARG.
The Cody’s mom had him read this. Know the irony? She drinks and drives. Huh. Go figger.