My friend's daughter is 24 and she had a really scary incident happen to her over the New Year. After a night of partying on New Year's eve, she called my friend and told her that her car was stolen from the south part of the city. Since the car is registered in my friend's name, she reported it stolen and went through the process of getting a new registration, etc. On Monday, my friend got a call from a man in the north part of the city and told her he found the daughter outside of his house, very drunk, drinking a beer next to her car. This man wound up driving the daughter home (to her apartment) and the car was left at his house. He gave the daughter a note with his number so that she would know where to pick it up. Since she never picked it up, the man found the registration and called my friend with the story.
The daughter has no memory of how she got there... did she drive? did someone drive her car there and leave her there? It's lucky she didn't kill herself or anyone else and that this good samaritan was so nice and not a psycho.
Anyway, I hadn't had a drink all day and was contemplating having just one while talking to my husband. This was right before bedtime. Then I thought of the story and told him about it. My husband (a doctor) was incredibly upset and said that she needs to immediately go into rehab and how she probably needs to go to the hospital to detox... he was very serious. Just telling the story and listening to my husband, immediately put the thought of drinking out of my head, So I was fine and went.
There have been several times that a really scary health or drunk driving story has stopped me cold for an evening. The question is.... how do I use that fright and remind myself of it for the next time I'm in the grips of a craving??? It's like driving by a car wreck.... you get scared into driving really carefully for a little while and then you start to forget and you start driving carelessly again.
The daughter has no memory of how she got there... did she drive? did someone drive her car there and leave her there? It's lucky she didn't kill herself or anyone else and that this good samaritan was so nice and not a psycho.
Anyway, I hadn't had a drink all day and was contemplating having just one while talking to my husband. This was right before bedtime. Then I thought of the story and told him about it. My husband (a doctor) was incredibly upset and said that she needs to immediately go into rehab and how she probably needs to go to the hospital to detox... he was very serious. Just telling the story and listening to my husband, immediately put the thought of drinking out of my head, So I was fine and went.
There have been several times that a really scary health or drunk driving story has stopped me cold for an evening. The question is.... how do I use that fright and remind myself of it for the next time I'm in the grips of a craving??? It's like driving by a car wreck.... you get scared into driving really carefully for a little while and then you start to forget and you start driving carelessly again.
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