"Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk"

As in all things, the outer reflects the inner, and vice-versa, and when you catch it out the corner of your eye, it brings a smile to a part of the brain that rarely does anymore, the older you get.

Why DO friends let friends drive drunk?
And what the hell does that mean anyway?

Friends let friends drive drunk, because they want to be able to drive drunk themselves. (Here, of course, we're not talking about alcoholic beverages saturating the blood-stream, creating a state of decreased motor facility and mental awareness.)

If those people actually WERE friends of the drunken-one, they would take them aside and intervene, as necessary, to prohibit them doing harm not only to themselves but to other people - both physically and psychically.

But, noooOOOoooo. Because they, themselves, enjoy driving while drunk and causing all sorts of mayhem, ahem, they give their "friend" a pass, support his "need-of-the-moment", put him in his car and send him on his way. While they, in their smug satisfaction that they "did all they could", simply go on with the rest of their lives as though nothing even happened.

Then later, when the bad news reaches them, that their "friend" has literally self-destructed, crashed there on the side of the road, quite beside themselves (sometimes, even literally), they instantly feel sad and depressed and sorry for their "poor friend", and begin railing against the auto-manufacturers (who must've built a bad vehicle), the city-planners (that would put a tree of all things on that particular corner), the bar-owner (who sold them that last potent drink), but never, NEVER themselves.

(Here, of course, we're not talking about alcoholic beverages saturating the blood-stream, creating a state of decreased motor facility and mental awareness. Geez, Louise, what the hell ARE we talking about?!?)

You know, one sign of intelligence, is being able to think about two things simultaneously, without either one losing the full force and power it rightfully possesses, while being able to merge the two discrete views into one even more powerful insight-of-the-moment.