Buzz Kill Narrative

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Hesham Abdelhamed English Composition I Jeanne Purtell January 23, 2009 A Buzz Kill “Hey, I don’t really feel like crashing here, if I gave you gas money, will you take me to my house?” It was funny my friend asked me that because I was thinking the same thing also, but too bad I was the driver. Let’s just say that my decision to drive home that night would always remind me of what I did for my 2007 4th of July. I was at my friend’s first party at his new house and didn’t plan ahead whatsoever. The idea of where I would sleep or how I would go home didn’t come across my mind till the end of the night so my options became limited. It was either sleep on the couch or get in my car and drive home to my very comfortable bed, drunk. I can guarantee you I will never think twice if I were ever stuck with those options again. At this point in my life I never considered my consequences for every single one of my actions so I decided…show more content…
The cops could smell the alcohol in our breaths and handed us both breathalyzers. I didn’t even wait for the result before I was ready to get out of the car and go to jail. The officer was about to give me a lesson that I could not afford but probably needed, NEVER drink and drive. The worst was not even over yet. “Mom, I’m at central booking in downtown York. I just got a DUI and they are releasing me on bail.” If the guards were not persistent that I take my only phone call, I would have picked jail over having to hear my heart race as I dialed the my mom’s number to tell her what had happened. After what seemed a lifetime of my mother being unresponsive , I could hear her start to sob I felt the lowest I ever have and never realized that it could would be me one day that would pay for something I already knew was intolerable. I have never felt as ashamed in my life or walked with my head as low as I left central booking and head towards my mom’s

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