Do Drinking and Driving Infomercia

            Do Drinking and Driving Infomercials Really Work?
            
             There are always campaigns and commercials about not drinking and driving, but do these infomercials really pay off? As a teenager, I watch television quite often. I see these commercials about drinking and driving and never really thought twice about them. The biggest flaw that my generation has is that we believe we are invincible. If it doesn't affect us at the present moment, we could care less. I never really listen to these commercials or wondered what they were really trying to say, until now.
            
             About a year ago, something happened to a friend of mine. Something that could have been prevented if we had only listened to these commercials. A few friends and I decided to go to this party. We knew there was going to be drinking, but we all figured we would just sleep there. We get to the party and were having a great time. Were drinking, playing beer pong and card games. Everyone around is getting really drunk.
            
             As the night progresses, people start leaving or passing out. I'm still having a great time socializing and drinking. I look around me and two of my friends are missing. I went around asking people if they had seen them. No one seems to know where they are. I don't think anything of it at the time. I go upstairs, looking in all the rooms. I still cannot find my friends. I'm starting to get a little worried. I go outside and I still don't see them, but I also don't see their car. Now I'm going crazy. I have no idea where they went. I go inside. I figure that they'll be fine. Of course they will, nothing bad ever happens to us, we're teenagers.
            
             I go back inside and fall asleep. My cell phone rings and wakes me up. I look at the clock and it's four o'clock in the morning. I answer my phone and it's one of my friends that I was looking for earlier. I asked her where she was and she said that she was at the h...

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