Like I just wrote in some other post, some other thread, I just got reintroduced to euphoria in a bottle. (And by “just” I mean less than an hour ago.) Immediately afterwards, I drove home (and, strangely enough, started posting), which as we all know is a horribly bad idea for any number of reasons.
That being said, why do I (and evidently thousands of other people) do stupid shit like that (“that” being DWI, not drunken posting - I could just ask Homer about that)? More importantly, why shouldn’t we? Come on guys, come up with something gory and scary, so much so that I’ll never, ever do this again.
(Note: I don’t get hangovers, so that’s no deterrent. Also, if anybody sends me that poem about the girl who gets into an accident with her parents, that’s probably going to induce more drinking than it discourages.)
Well one night, the person I was with got sick right after we got to the club, and I only had time for one beer. When we left (I was driving) I ran into a police checkpoint and had to take a breathalyzer test. If I stayed at the club longer and had some more beer, I might be in jail right now.
I’ll never drink and drive again.
Oh yeah, and you might kill someone and have to live with that for the rest of your life.
One reason why you should not drink and drive: People can die. Isn’t that a good enough reason? If not, I don’t know what is. It’s more than stupid, it’s idotic and potentialy lethal. Quit it.
Drinking and driving - so what you’re saying is that you don’t mind murdering somebody, as long as you got a good buzz first. Drinking and driving is purposely putting yourself and others, including people you love and complete strangers, even children, in dire jeopardy. It is worse than being a hot-blooded murderer - it shows wanton disregard for life. A hot-blooded murderer kills because of emotional rage, directed at a specific person for a specific reason. Drunk Driving is killing indescriminately just because. It shows a lack of respect for yourself and for everyone else.
Now the personal anecdote. One of my high school teachers also became a fairly good friend of mine. I would hang out with Fred whenever I came home from college and stuff. He had a teenage son, Josh. One year, they went on vacation to Virginia, Josh just turned 18 or so. Being a laid back type and wanting his son to experience life, Fred took Josh out to a bar/pool hall and were hanging out. Josh was having fun with some other guy there, Fred went back to his condo. Josh never made it home. Found out the next day that the Josh did something he never expected and had couched him against. Josh had gotten into a car with the new buddy to be driven home, because it was a fair walk to the condo. The buddy was drunk, had an accident. Josh was killed, the other guy was injured but lived. Fred was devestated.
Drinking and Driving is the equivalent of first degree murder in my mind.
I never will understand why people drink and drive. it’s the same as looking to commit murder in my mind.
One March, a HS acquaintance of mine went out one friday night with his best buddy, and buddies GF. Went to party and drank more than fish do. Left party totally tanked. No one thought anything about it, as they lived in the same neighborhood.
They never made it home. Driver swerved to miss nothing in the road, and hit a bridge doing about 50, I guess. Railing on the side of the bridge went through the car, and into his best friends chest and on through, nearly severing the girl’s leg in the back seat. They had to get a blow torch to get his buddy off the railing so they could put him in a body bag. The girl did eventually get out of Intensive care, and even kept the leg. But it was well into summer before she found that out.
The survivor never did feel remorse for it. Laughed about it. Got flowers from his friends, like he was a victim. His parents paid for it tho. The parents of the guy who got killed in his car sued them, and walked away with a good chunk of change. They also had to pay off the girl’s parents as well.
My grad school roommate was in a pretty terrible car accident when she was in college. She was a passenger in the back seat, and the driver had been drinking. They ran off the highway and hit a tree.
My friend went through the windshield (from the back seat, let me remind you) and was thrown into the woods.
She remembers waking up before the police/ambulance arrived, completely numb. She couldn’t move her arms or legs, but she remembers using her tongue to play with something that was in the front of her mouth. That later turned out to be part of her jaw, which had broken in 3 places. One section was pretty much completley detached from the rest of her jaw, and she could move it back and forth quite a bit. Then she passed out again.
Both legs were broken, one thigh in two places. They had to put a metal rod in her leg for 6 months. She also had three crushed vertebrae, one of which had to be removed, and the other two were patched up by fusing them together using cadaver bone.
She also had a pin put in a broken ankle, had a broken arm, and they had to put a big metal plate in her jaw.
She was in a wheel chair and in anursing home for several months. All the metal was eventually removed, except the plate in her jaw. She has to wear a bracelet so that no one puts her in an MRI.
She has horrible scars on her back and legs, and has to go to massage therapy once a week because the fused vertabrae in her spine cause all sorts of muscle problems.
Because the first thing to go bye-bye when you’re under the influence of alcohol is your judgement. Heck, I’ll bet most drunk drivers got behind the wheel out of sheer habit.
A word of advice: If you’re tipsy from alcohol and need to get yourself and your car home, DON’T call a taxi cab – call a TOW TRUCK.
So there you go, Bout. Don’t drink and drive because you could die. Or, if you’re lucky, you could end up horribly scarred, crippled, and in pain for the rest of your life.
Hmm I wonder why so many people post while drunk:) You don’t notice it so much here obviously but if you drink and post ultimately you post drunk, alot.