Drunk driving is a serious offence. People do it without clearly understanding the consequences of their irresponsible actions. However, the intake of alcohol can also lead to another problem of modern society, which I feel needs to be given some serious attention.
It's a disease that never existed before we could hold cell phones in one hand and a Long Island Iced Tea in another. And nobody understands the seriousness of this problem. I mean there have been enough number of public service advertisements on "do not drink and drive" but whoever thought of warning us about the perils of drinking and dialing.
Yes, drunk dialing is also an offence. To society. To yourself. And most definitely the person you have called.
It starts like this:
You are usually two to three drinks down when this very innocent question creeps into your mind.
What is that person-im-so-not-supposed-to-
After one more drink.
Will he or she or it be thinking about you?
After the seventh shot.
Where is my phone?
And what's the flawed logic swimming in the alcohol floating in the folds of your brain? I'M DRUNK SO ITS ALLOWED.
Well YOU are drunk, and guess what it is more likely for you to forget the waste of a call or conversation, but that person is sober and will remember everything.
Right from the fact that you ACTUALLY called.
That's ego boosting factor number 1.
Now, ego boosting factor number 2. Your absolute confession of the fact that you want to kill him/her or that you have just realised how much you really miss/love/cannot-enjoy-that-
Ego Boosting Factor number 3: you would be rather talking on the phone than enjoying wherever you are (and I'm hoping that you aren't drinking alone in a bedroom). So "wherever" includes a pub, friend's house, your house but with friends over or in some really sad cases your current bf/gf's place.
The above factors are enough to give that person a high. They might feel bad for you but they aren't in most cases going to do shit about it. So stop CALLING. Sometimes they are annoyed because they might be having a better time and the sorriness of your situation probably obligates them to talk to you even though you are speaking ABSOLUTE GIBBERISH. But they will love every moment of that conversation because of all the attention that is being showered on them. All thanks to your stupidity.
And where does that leave you. The drunken diallers. In this case you are the victims of the crime that you commit. You are the only ones responsible for the regret you feel the next day. And honestly, it is so not pretty.
Not the sight of you sobbing (with snot in your nose) or the sight of you trying to snatch back your phone from your friend's hand. Nor the desperation in your voice when you beg your friend for that one call that might save you from a life of loneliness. Well, your friend is probably doing just that. But saving you from more important things. From sounding like a loser.
So snap out of it.
Enjoy that drink.
And keep that phone away.
It's a disease that never existed before we could hold cell phones in one hand and a Long Island Iced Tea in another. And nobody understands the seriousness of this problem. I mean there have been enough number of public service advertisements on "do not drink and drive" but whoever thought of warning us about the perils of drinking and dialing.
Yes, drunk dialing is also an offence. To society. To yourself. And most definitely the person you have called.
It starts like this:
You are usually two to three drinks down when this very innocent question creeps into your mind.
What is that person-im-so-not-supposed-to-
After one more drink.
Will he or she or it be thinking about you?
After the seventh shot.
Where is my phone?
And what's the flawed logic swimming in the alcohol floating in the folds of your brain? I'M DRUNK SO ITS ALLOWED.
Well YOU are drunk, and guess what it is more likely for you to forget the waste of a call or conversation, but that person is sober and will remember everything.
Right from the fact that you ACTUALLY called.
That's ego boosting factor number 1.
Now, ego boosting factor number 2. Your absolute confession of the fact that you want to kill him/her or that you have just realised how much you really miss/love/cannot-enjoy-that-
Ego Boosting Factor number 3: you would be rather talking on the phone than enjoying wherever you are (and I'm hoping that you aren't drinking alone in a bedroom). So "wherever" includes a pub, friend's house, your house but with friends over or in some really sad cases your current bf/gf's place.
The above factors are enough to give that person a high. They might feel bad for you but they aren't in most cases going to do shit about it. So stop CALLING. Sometimes they are annoyed because they might be having a better time and the sorriness of your situation probably obligates them to talk to you even though you are speaking ABSOLUTE GIBBERISH. But they will love every moment of that conversation because of all the attention that is being showered on them. All thanks to your stupidity.
And where does that leave you. The drunken diallers. In this case you are the victims of the crime that you commit. You are the only ones responsible for the regret you feel the next day. And honestly, it is so not pretty.
Not the sight of you sobbing (with snot in your nose) or the sight of you trying to snatch back your phone from your friend's hand. Nor the desperation in your voice when you beg your friend for that one call that might save you from a life of loneliness. Well, your friend is probably doing just that. But saving you from more important things. From sounding like a loser.
So snap out of it.
Enjoy that drink.
And keep that phone away.
Nice :)
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