1-800-24-DRUNK
So, I was driving home from the crab shack tonight, and there was a guy on the highway who was blatently drunk, like, if I were a cop, there's no way I wouldn't have pulled him over.
And for some reason, despite having been there many times, I felt compelled to do something about it, and dialed the aforementioned number. She got my information, my statement, and my contact info, but afterwards I had this really odd feeling like what I did wasn't ok.
No one I know has ever dialed them, and lord knows how pissed we'd all be if we got pulled over because of something like that, but, as Nina pointed out, I might have just saved someone's life, so I don't quite feel as bad.
Maybe this is a sign I'm growing up, being more responsible, but I doubt it. I'm just going to have to probe a little further into it and see if I was really being altruistic or if there wasn't some deeper underlying cause, like, calling cause I recognize my own problems needing to be called out. That sorta thing.
Oh well.
posted by ~David~ at 1:51 AM
1 Comments:
i've called 911 i think three times in the last year.
i dont think you need to search within yourself to figure out why you called 911. sometimes i think it's enough that you did the right thing-- you dont need to know why you did it because the important thing is that you did it.
we'd all be pissed if we got pulled over because someone called 911 on our ass because we were very very obviously driving drunk. but, i'd hope that we'd be pissed at ourselves for driving drunk in the first place.
if there is some underlying cause, maybe it's something inside you telling you that driving drunk (which i dont know if you do, but more people do than we'd like to think) is bad. and that drugs are bad. and will kill you. and live is precious and all that crap.
love me
5:31 PM
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