Of drinking and driving

My bestfriend's husband P was caught drunk driving last weekend. Apparently, he and my bestfriend, M were bar hopping and they were on their way to yet another bar when M started getting sick. She wanted to go home but P wanted to go to the bar anyway. So, they had an argument in the car and that's when P started driving erratically. A cop saw them and pulled them over. It must have been obvious that P was drunk because he was immediately ordered to the backseat of the cop car. M was left sitting in the passenger side of their car when the cop started talking to her. She pretended to be sober and carried on a decent conversation with the cop. Just when she thought she fooled him, he asked her to step out of the car. "No problem", she replied, except that all of her efforts to look and act sober went into waste when instead of stepping out of the car, she rolled out of the car instead!

Needless to say, P spent the night in jail and M was driven home by the cop. Of course, driving violations do not end that painlessly. He will have to go to court in a couple of months and we're guesstimating the fine to be around $1000 and another $1000 for the required driving school, counselling, and stuff.

Lesson of the story: DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE. It's f*cking costly. M and P got off pretty easy actually. They could have crashed their car and paid the ultimate price, their lives.