Problem is: they just won't learn anyway. The week I turned 18 I joined a volunteer fire department, partly because of the cheap beer in the fridge at the firehouse, and within a few more weeks I had joined the ambulance corps (different fire department) and almost immediately was picking up the pieces of a high school classmate, and it didn't have a great deal of effect on my own drinking habits. I can't really say what did it for me, I was a pretty wild kid and more than once slept in my car because I was too drunk to get out and go in the house.snatchel wrote:Folks just dont learn! This morning Wifey and I were coming back from the adoration chapel --we have the 12 to 1 a.m shift--and we see a eclipse that has a trashed front end, and a young, leggy girl in a miniskirt getting a field sobriety test. We are sitting at the red light watching this poor girl trying to stagger through the straight line test in 3 inch heels, and abruptly fall on her hind-end. Suffice to say that Everyone watching knew exactly what color underwear she was wearing.
I wish i had a video camera, if every college girl in this town saw this drunken girl so incredibly intoxicated that she was falling over flashing her nether regions for all to see, maybe they would make some sense of it and realize they dont want to be there. Sad to see such a gorgeous girl going down like that...you almost want to feel sorry for her.
After my first (late) wife and I married things went on that way for a while, and then we calmed down and stayed that way until she passed 23 years later, when I lit right into drinking again. It was a stripper younger than my daughters, just a friend and a former piano student of my late wife. who snapped me out of that when I showed up at the club she worked in just barely able to stand up, and she told me how disgusted with me she was and that one of those days I was going to kill someone else even if I didn't care about myself. I left and never went back, but I also stopped the booze, except for an occasional shot of vodka, and I don't even do that if I am carrying.