Hope that child pulls through. How terrible.
I'm like Gator. Alcoholism runs in my family, on both sides. My biological father died when I was a year old from alcoholism. After WWII, my grandpa turned to booze. Probably cut ten or fifteen years off of his life. My uncle became an alcoholic during Vietnam, but he's recovering.
My brother went into rehab in 2018. Clean and sober ever since, thank goodness. I mostly feel bad for my mom. She's been through hell with all of this.
That said, I have had my fair share of times where I should not have been behind the wheel, or been riding with people who were in no condition to drive.
So I don't want to cast judgment. I just hope that Mr. Reid gets help.
About ten years ago, one of my longest friends swerved to miss a deer and crashed into a tree. He had just finished a couple beers and was almost home. Luckily, no one was hurt. But his getting a DUI was my wake up call. Seeing everything he has had to go through and how much it's followed him almost ten years later made me realize how devastating a DUI can be, not to mention how selfish drinking and driving is. That tree could just as easily have been a person or a car full of people.
