Went out for a few drinks on Saturday to celebrate a friend's new position at her job. I was the designated driver since I was the one doing the drinking the previous night. My buddy, let's call him John, decided to hit the drinks a tad to hard. John had a rough week and decided he wanted to forget all about it. Nevertheless, during the course of the night someone knocks over a beer and soaks my John's phone. Destroyed it.
1:45 rolls around and I close my tab. Assemble everyone for the walk out into the parking lot to the car. John was the only one that drove by himself. Everyone else was with me. As we were walking the bartender, a mutual friend of ours, and myself were trying to convince him that he shouldn't be doing any driving. Granted, we have all been f'ed up together and have done dumb things with no consequences. Plus, he has a good 100 lbs on me, so I did what I shouldn't of done. I let him leave.
Wake up in the morning and call his phone. Forgot it was soaked and called his brother. Found out that he had gotten a blow out on the way home and had ended up in the ditch. Some good smaritans had pulled his truck out and were helping him put the tire back on. Police rolls up just to make sure everything is fine, they realize my buddy is not sober and take him to the drunk tank.
I finally get in touch with John late in the afternoon on Sunday wondering if he recieved a DUI. Well, it turns out he only got a citation for public intoxication because when the police showed up they could not prove that he was the driver.
He has now gone stone cold sober and when we go out out will just drink soda with me and make sure everyone else has a good time.
Did he get lucky or did the cop just cut him a favor?
