One of my employees was arrested for extreme DWI. In Arizona DWI is very, very drunk, indeed and extreme DWI is true toilet-hugging drunk. Trouble is, she thought she was stone cold sober. In spite of having partied into the night, she “felt” in control and was stunned to find her blood alcohol through the roof.

If you drink enough and often enough that your body has acclimatized to high levels of blood alcohol, you have a drinking problem. And the fact that you THINK you’re o.k. or you ACT o.k. doesn’t mean you ARE o.k.–you’re still impaired as a driver.

And he had his son in the car with him? OMG.

Don’t feel sorry for the wretch. Feel glad for him that the cops took him off the street before he hurt himself, his son, and other people on the road. Maybe this incident was enough to make him take a hard look at his drinking habits. Some people do wise up….

It’s been interesting to read everyone’s comments today, and to hear about situations like the one you describe. Life is full of grey areas. And people do dumb things. *I* do dumb things. Ah, it’s the stuff of poetry…