the doctor says this happens to people right leg but he was always so active and always involved in sports spent so much of his time playing tennis or bowling when i was too old for tennis and when hunting i could cover more rough country than any of them i can't believe that at my age i'll never be able to do most of these things again all that first day after i found out about my leg i nearly went crazy thinking about what i'd have to give up and that's typical of the way i've always been let's face it all i've had on my mind was myself and then something happened to make me forget about me in my legs i forgot because i found out wh wasn't in the other bag he was still in the operati lorry my wife told me they don't expect him to live jim dies it's my fault if he dies i killed him i can't even remember when i didn't know jim i've got to admit that jim was the steadier of the two of us he got married first after it also been first and getting a good job is to say you could tell the difference between us by the way we drove cars g m was smoother behind the wheel i always felt i was a born drive i've never had any real trouble and that was my trouble maybe i'd have gotten wise if i had always been able to skim through but i got away with some pretty bad habits even when laurie was with  i'm going too fast in the wrong places friends and neighborhood street words jim used to say kids can appear from behind parked cars like magic the worst bad habit of all was thinking i was always as good a driver as i was some time when i was too tired not to get off the road i don't know how many times especially on hunting trips i was just plain lucky same thing when i'd had a few drinks again i got away with it too many times after a party or some celebration or other i rolled and i musta been an angel on my shoulder until that one night an angel was in there the night i took the road that always leads to trouble highball highway as tom's attorney i filled him in on the legal  about the tests and the analysis for checking out the alcohol in your blood when you're involved with drunk driving every skill including the ability to drive diminishes in proportion to alcohol consumption with only two point one five percent that's about two or three drinks you're not the driver you want to be as the blood you become more under the influence until everyone is affected at a level of point one percent in a lot of critical driving situations where normal reaction time is hardly enough a few drinks can kill you what's worse your drinks can kill other people there's not much use wishing we've gone home earlier except somehow or other we had more to drink than we intended it didn't seem very long until it was close in time and by that it was too late in more ways than one in a hospital bed in the middle of the night nothing seems right nothing seems real he's got to be still alive i've got a friend of yours here they say tom will be able to drive again lots of people drive with artificial legs and when he does you'll have a better reminder that most of us matter how good a driver you are there are times when you can't drive when you're asleep probably even when you're angry or upset and certainly after you had the few too many that can mean or kill you or maybe what's worse the few too many that can mean or kill other people time can't go back and make it right the only person who can do that is you the driver to whom as yet nothing like the unfortunate driver we've just seen could have been any one of us even if we never drink the drinking before you get their mind the wheel is simply another bad driving habits and any bad driving habits can get you into trouble according to the experts in such matters the first senses affected by alcohol are our sense of judgment and our sense of right and wrong that other you after a few drinks may be personable and th charlie but that other you can't drive safely those same few drinks that bring out the best in your personality can only accentuate your worst driving habits so stay out of trouble if you drink don't drive if you drive don't drink