Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how you would feel if you made a mother watch her child die? made someone a quadriplegic? made a family of orphans? Caused someone to be permanently disfigured? How could you look these people in the eye? How could you live with yourself! PLEASE, do not drink and drive. If you've drunk too much, call a cab, call a friend, stay the night and sober up. Do not make someone else pay for your bad decision!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am PP, not trying to sock puppet but obviously I have a lot strong feelings about this issue. Most of us here have children who we drive with each day, so the idea of "don't sweat it" really burns me up.
Nobody is saying "don't sweat it." But OP can't go back and change the past, and luckily she didn't hurt anyone. If she never does it again and she can prevent someone else from doing it in the future, what more can you really do?
Anonymous wrote:I am PP, not trying to sock puppet but obviously I have a lot strong feelings about this issue. Most of us here have children who we drive with each day, so the idea of "don't sweat it" really burns me up.
Anonymous wrote:I am PP, not trying to sock puppet but obviously I have a lot strong feelings about this issue. Most of us here have children who we drive with each day, so the idea of "don't sweat it" really burns me up.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many people have them, back before madd about 60% of males have gotten caught but you don't about it because they used to just let you walk home. Now a days they have gone overboard. Don't sweat it, get through it, don't get one again and in the future call a cab.
I am a PP and I was supportive of OP but I do not think they have gone overboard.
DH's close family member was killed by a drunk driver, her small children were left without a mother.
There were headlines on CNN in the last couple months about drunk drivers killing up to 5-6 people in a single wreck, and I was sick to my stomach reading about it. Intake drunk driving very, very seriously and believe people need to face the legal consequences of their actions.
So I would never tell OP "don't worry about it". That being said, she is human, she was vulnerable, there is nobody who foes not have mistakes in their past that they wish they could erase, and she can use this experience as a catalyst to move forward and manage her stress in healthier ways. She CAN move forward and make better choices.
Anonymous wrote:Driving while drinking isn't a mistake. It is a crime.
It is the same as playing Russian Roulette but with a car rather than a gun.
I would say get into therapy. If while stressed by life circumstances your response is to have reckless disregard for you own life and the life of others, then therapy might help you sort out why potentially killing someone was a risk you were willing to take.
I also second getting into AA or some kind of alcohol treatment program. Again when your drinking is impairing your functioning to the point that you are driving dangerously and putting others lives at risk - it is time to get help.
Anonymous wrote:Many people have them, back before madd about 60% of males have gotten caught but you don't about it because they used to just let you walk home. Now a days they have gone overboard. Don't sweat it, get through it, don't get one again and in the future call a cab.