dui series Archive
Step Out Of The Car, Please: Maura’s Story
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Nov 21, 2013
Previous entries in the DUI series can be found here.
Sara knew what she was doing. “The booze is gonna react with my pills, I bet,” she said in the passenger seat during the journey from Madison to Poynette.
Her nonchalant spirit sparked a rumble of excitement behind my heart. This was my
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Eileen’s Story
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Nov 07, 2013
Previous entries in the DUI series can be found here.
The night I was arrested on my first drunk driving offense, I was chauffeuring a car full of teenagers and a 30-pack of beer from a keg party on the eastern outskirts of town to another keg party on the western outskirts
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Allison’s Story
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 24, 2013
Previous entries in the DUI series can be found here.
I grew up in a dry, Catholic family in a Midwestern state, and I was just barely beginning to secretly navigate the world of alcohol by the time I graduated high school. So I did what anyone in my position would do, and enrolled
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: One For The Road
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 03, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
The sound of the tires exploding, the bottom of the car bouncing along the shoulder of the road, the screeching sound that comes with a vehicle out of control: none of that was enough to bring me out of my blackout. My car
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Rolling Blackouts
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 26, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
The second time I blacked out I was nineteen, back in Kentucky for winter break of my freshman year, and discovering the true meaning of homesickness. What began in my friend’s UK dorm room with whiskey and ABBA karaoke ended with me ...Read More
Step Out Of The Car, Please: Is This A Drinking Story?
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 19, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
If I put together all the times I've seen Her drunk, those scenes would make a very boring after-school special. She's never lost a job because of drinking, never set a fire, never sobbed in humiliation, begging for forgiveness for some terrible, ...Read More
Step Out Of The Car, Please: My Last DUI
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 12, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
I am superstitious, so that "last" scares me. My last DUI, please Jesus, knock on wood, was in the late summer of 1998. I was driving a white 1968 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, Randy's "project car" at the time, home from the Dead
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Everything I Remember About Being Hit By a Car
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 05, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
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Claire and I had an agenda planned for the night he hit us with his car. Our idea was to do a truncated bar crawl in downtown Santa Cruz. The first bar we'd walk to by ourselves; we'd meet up with some friends
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