I remember that little bee-looking-bug-thing that used to visit our kindergarten classes, sharing the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol. I remember learning the sweet saying, "Too cool to use drugs and alcohol" along with the super cool hand motions. I remember seeing the pills called ectasy that looked like candy and learning that drinking and driving was a big no.
Funny how almost no one else recalls these visits, probably because they've fried their brains on the uses of drugs and alcohol.
What I really don't understand that goes on in the minds of someone intoxicated is why they choose to pick up their keys. I've heard different reasons... they're sober enough to drive, they are a good drunk driver, it's fun ... those are all gay. and a half. What people don't understand is they're opening the doors for harm to occur to other people.
I know a girl who was simply driving her friend home on a Sunday afternoon when she got into a horrible car accident. At a two-way stop intersection, a drunk person neglected the stop sign and crashed into her side of the car. She almost died. And he walked away ... more of stumbled ... after resisting arrest. Now what is "fun" about the possibility of manslaughter or jail time?
I work at a bar and all the time, I watch people who are too inebriated to drive pull their keys out of their pockets, down the rest of their beer, and then walk across the bar as if there's nothing wrong.
I got distracted. And now I can't remember my thought process behind all of this.
So I'm done : )
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