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Don't drive drunk
Don’t drink and drive
It was a late and freezing cold night, maybe 4 or 5 AM, couldn’t tell by my blurry vision what my clock mark. I was definitely not capable of driving my car. That club soaked all the cash of my bank account and the little that I had in my wallet. Taking a taxi was not going to be an option because of my economic problem at that moment. I could easily ask a friend to lend me some cash but after that last cup I drank, I couldn’t articulate very good and as I said before, my vision was not at its best condition. Then I think to myself, well you can sleep with the windows down inside your car and as the sun rises you get up and drive home. Unless I wanted to freeze to dead, this wasn’t an option. I had no money, I was really drunk, and its freezing cold outside. What a great night. I started convincing myself that I could drive. Maybe your not that drunk, maybe it’s the age that its affecting my sight and I need glasses. Maybe there was a problem with the terminal in that club and that’s why my card isn’t passing.
I started driving my car with caution. I drove really slow being cautious about any stop sign, red light, and cop cars. It was maybe a 15 or 20-minute drive from the club to my house and it felt like an eternity to me. I felt confident of myself and said to myself “wow, this is really easy, why didn’t I drive like this before”. Knowing that you are drunk and that you could cause an accident made me focus more on my driving than anything else. Because of the delay of choosing between driving or not, I was freezing cold. All of my body heat wasn’t sufficient enough to maintain me warm so I turn on the heating ventilator. But something was missing… “Ohhh yeah, the heated sits and the heated stirring wheel” The nerves started to disappear and the image of my warm bed with fifteen blankets on top of me and the windows open letting cold wind come inside the bedroom was becoming a very satisfying numb.
I thought it was just a few seconds that I closed my eyes when I was laying on the pavement road. I was really confused of what was happening. The next thing I know I was seeing a few yard away my car wrecked into a street pole and an ambulance approaching the scene. I tried getting up in my feet but couldn’t feel them or see them. I just felt how my heartbeat was slowly decaying. When the paramedics started seeing my wounds and telling me not to move. I started feeling that freezing cold feeling I told you before about. It was more and more intense that freezing cold sensation and someone repeating my name on my ear, “Dan, Dani, Daniel, DANIEL! Wake up!”
I open my eyes and all my beds ‘blankets were scattered around the floor. “You are going to be late to school, wake up! Why is your room so freaking cold”? Said my mother.
