I gotta admit that I *did* drive home from kryal whilst scat and tired.
You can all flame me, I dont really care. This is my reality.
But in saying that, I did learn an extremely valuable lesson. I *knew* I was tired but was a little too impatient to get home (as most of you will agree when you're tired and scat and completely worn out after a big night theres nothing more inviting than crawling into your own bed, however far away that may be). I wasnt driving alone, I had 3 others in the car but they were all equally as tired. Except for Anna who stayed awake and watched me drive home, and I thank god for that (what would I do without ya man?
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Anyway, Im posting to say that I did actually "drift off", i dunno if you'd call it sleeping but its like you suddenly blink and realise you have nfi what happened during the past 5mins. However, after each time I did pull over and rest. But it *is* so very easy to say to yourself, "just another few minutes, I'll be fine.." and suddenly you realise that your car is drifting across the road..
I'm not up with this whole 'you're all fucked in the head if you drive after a big night' kinda mentality, coz there *are* times when you *do* feel fine, as long as you are responsible enough to recognise the fact that you have been up all night and/or taken drugs/alcohol and take the necessary extra precautions. I can guarantee that I am a whole lot more alert to whats going on around me when I know that I've had a big night, coz I sure as hell dont want to kill anyone or myself for that matter. Tho as much as I'm sure others do the same, I will stay awake if someone else is driving under the same circumstances, and hey thats prolly good. One thing I've learnt now is that if you *hafta* drive and you know that you're not at 110% then make sure that theres someone else there that can keep an eye on you - at least then if you do look like you're slipping away they can yell out at you and bring you back.
Ofcourse in a perfect world no one would do anything irresponsible and we'd always do the right thing. But hey, we're all stupid and arrogant in our own right and think we're fine when maybe we really arent quite as fine as we think. All I can say is evaluate your situation, if you can make sure someone else is there to be with you (coz you're a lot more likely to do something stupid by yourself), and ITS OK TO STOP! no one in your car is gonna tell you to keep driving if you're tired.
All that said and done, just remember theres a time when we all hafta leave the party and start thinking responsibly about what we do, coz yes, there are so many things that could go wrong.
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im done
stace.
