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23 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


Not the same but similar-ish. Year into college during summer break, drinking on a friend’s slam piece’s dock. We’re beer drunk, not liquor sloppy, but still drunk.

I head out a little early bc I have to work the next day. I shouldn’t have been driving but Uber wasn’t a thing.  Tell a buddy to leave his van (he was rocking his family’s Astro) and just come home and crash with me. He says no. I then tell him to follow me and crash with me. He’s says he wants to stay longer and get the van home.

I wake up to 10 missed calls and a VM.

His mom left it. “DNAfriend was in an accident. The van is totaled. He’s in the hospital”

My heart sinks. Not only do I think about him being in the ICU with a tube in his throat, or him hurting someone else, I naturally think ‘oh fuck we are all going to be be majorly fucked and so will I as I scored the beer with my fake. Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit.

Then his mom calls. I answer. “DNAfriend is ok and coming home.” 
Me: [huh, how TF is he not in jail…..] Good!
Friend Mom: [garbled talking bc I’m in my own head] …. Got a DUI.

Me: [Snaps back into consciousness] He did?! Really?!

Her: of course. He was like twice the legal limit.

Me: [confused] Are you sure? That’s crazy. There’s no way.

Her: Yes, the other driver was so drunk he didn’t know where he was when the police came. That sonofabitch is lucky he’s locked up or I would be on way to kill’em.

Me: So DNafriend is ok?

Her: He’s resting, has glass still imbedded in his arm and is super sore.

…..

Later when visiting him I find out that he only stayed a little longer. He knew he was drunk but figured he’d driven way worse. He was stopped at a red light and when it turned green he started to go when a flash of headlights from a F250 blinded him. Just before that and at the light he picked up the basketball he had rolling around the floorboard of the passenger seat and placed it on his left side kind of wedged between him and the door bc it kept rolling around and bothering him. The F250 hit him directly in the driver side door. Next he remembered waking up upside down in the van in the opposite side of the road’s ditch. Then the next memory was waking up in the hospital.

Van looked like a coke can when you miss your mark trying to flatten it.

To this day I don’t know how he lived. Being 19-20 helps. But I also have to figure being drunk may have also saved him too. That and the basketball maybe. The impact ruptured that thing. It had a split down the middle of it when I later saw it.

It’s crazy. I guess they didn’t suspect him bc they never ran a blood test for alcohol or drugs. He was < 21 so even a little trace would have gotten him in deep shit.

I hadn’t thought about that in years. We’re still friends to this day. Good dude. Successful. Better to be lucky than good sometimes man.

Did this story finish yet?

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Do I have to do everything around here?
 

What are you getting at here? That’s a video of VY. Sanchez wasn’t the QB in that game. Or am I missing something? Maybe the YT matrix showed 4th and 5 for some reason?

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