Horrible Night
I have had 2 mates locked up in jail and both had to go to court.
But my story luckily had a happier ending, but definitely set in on the right track afterwards. I went out to a cocktail bar about 4km from my house and ended up getting very drunk. My friends offered to drive me home, but being drunk you always think you are fine and that NOTHING will ever happen.
All I remember is waking up as my car hit and ramped the pavement at a T-junction (I had passed out), my car then smashed into a massive palm tree which knocked over and fell onto the house (which was about 3 meters way. The owners of the house came out, phoned the police and said to me that if that palm tree was not there then I would have crashed straight through their house wall and into their bedroom as that wall was there bedroom wall. I could have killed 2 people in their bed. I was arrested and put in the police van while my friends arrived and tried to talk to the police. I eventually was let go (not sure how or why, but it might have been because of another drunk driver that crashed into the house next door).
My car (which I had had for 2 weeks, Land Rover Freelander) was written off and i had to pay for the repairs to the house and new palm tree (we are talking R19 000 damage).
I thank my lucky stars every day that I did not kill someone and did not kill myself.
It definitely is the cheaper and safer option to have a designated driver or use a great service like GoodFellas. NEVER BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP and rather do the RIGHT thing!
