Don't drink and drive

[Heinz R Vahlbruch]

Hello CPians, I just watched a report on TV about an extraordinary woman. She was severely disfigured in a drunken driving crash, but she never gave up. Now she makes her story public hoping to prevent people from driving when they are drunk. You can read all about her and her life on her website: HelpJacqui[^] Severely disfigured in a drunken driving crash three years ago, Jacqui is courageously lending her story and her face to a statewide anti-DWI campaign in Texas in hopes that her experience will deter people from drinking and driving. Admirable ...

heinz r. vahlbruch

:bob: What is Bob looking for here?

[David Wulff]

Admirable but foolish. There are two types of people in this world - those who would never consider driving after even a wiff from a spirits bottle, and everyone but me, you, and the other person reading this. Human nature is seriously flawed, but being the most sucessful opportunists this planet has yet to see we are conditioned into taking risks even when they go against our very best judgements. I will never drink and drive - e.v.e.r. - but I'll only look you in the eye and tell you that when I am lying on my death bed. Some people might not drink, but that doesn't make much difference - people drive when tired even with their family around them, they talk on mobile telephones, they skip forward a track on a CD. All are totally irresponsible acts that to be bluntly honest speaking now if I caught myself doing any of them behind the wheel of a two ton lump of steel travelling at anything more than five miles per hour I would probably be too shocked with myself to drive for a long long time. I know I am when others do so when I am a passenger. Then again, when one day I find myself starting to nod off behind the wheel when I'm only half a mile from my home I will weigh that bet up and see. Everyone makes errors of judgement - some people think they can stay awake with the window open and others think they haven't drunk enough to slow their reactions. There's no excuse, except that it's human.

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David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

[benjymous]

Yeah, I always refuse to drive if I've had anything to drink at all. People say "come on, legally you can drink a few pints and still be under the limit" with some kind of idea that being drunk is some kind of binary state that flips from fully sober to drunk -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!