Everyone has friends who drink. After you hear about kids who die in accidents involving alcohol, you realize that this can easily be your friends.
But there are only two types of drinkers: those who think you're just being a wuss for not drinking and those who are in denial that they really ever get drunk, just buzzed, so it's not dangerous. My friends are the second type, so how do you help people like that? Statistics won't help, and neither will the stark reality that drinking causes death (which have hit some of my friends pretty closely seeing as someone they know has died of it). What's their problem?
2006-08-30 19:22:59 · 13 answers · asked by finleydoo 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
It also causes paralysis, I was in a motorcycle wreck at 19 that involved a drunk driver that left me permanently paralyzed. Their problem is that they share the same "It won't happen to me complex" as everyone else......that is, until it does happen to them
2006-08-30 19:28:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as My job directory involves the consumption of alcohol (Not on My part.) I get asked this on occasion. I would say that they know what they doing is unacceptable it is part of being a rebellious youth. Sadly they don't often see that until it is too late. You can try to give them the facts and for there sake I hope they listen to you. Down load Pictures of a diseased liver "serious of the liver" and or Drunk driver crash pic's. Its brutal but it some times works.
2006-08-31 02:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by Sherry M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well they are in denial and they do not really know if they ever do get drunk so i will let you decide on two of my opinions
1. Let them have their beer and alchohal and if they get drunk stay with them and make sure they do not do anything stupid and the next day tell them you did not feel comfortable with them getting wasted like they did.
2. Tell your friends straight forward you do not want them to drink so much or at all.
oh i have one more.
3. Even just maybe they are not the right group of friends to hang out with.
2006-08-31 02:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by rocknbo0ger012 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glad you and your friends can tell the difference between buzzed and drunk. The police don't know the difference. The blood alcohol tests don't know. The breathalyzer doesn't know. The people who are killed by drunk drivers didn't know either.
Tell your friends this story.
2006-08-31 02:27:56 · answer #4 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take them to a free class at the coronors office to see what happens to people who drink and drive if that doesn't work nothing will.
2006-08-31 02:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest getting another friend and taking the keys, then drive him/her home and then you know they are safe. Make sure they KNOW you just CARE, and with 2 of you maybe there will be a chance the keys will be given up without a fight.
2006-08-31 02:28:45 · answer #6 · answered by gameralltheway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good luck most people don't admitit it just remind who ever not to drive or be in a car with a drunk driver. you can't baby sit everyone they got to learn somethings by doing them, cause they never listen.
2006-08-31 02:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by Crystal D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell them my story about fat Charlie:
He got smashed.
In the process of running to the bathroom he horked, slipped in it and fell flat on his back in his own puddle, Charlie went home early.
2006-08-31 02:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people have common sence, others dont. unfortunately, a lot of folks can only learn the hard way, or finaly they just mellow out as they get older. hopefully, they wont kill someone else or themselves, before they do.
2006-08-31 02:28:57 · answer #9 · answered by Big hands Big feet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can tell your friends not to drink by getting a "do not drink and drive" bumper sticker for their cars.
2006-08-31 02:26:40 · answer #10 · answered by trillionaire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋