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Big Labor Day Weekend Party
I wonder who’s going to make it out alive
As I was pulling a cart out of the jammed metal lineup just outside my neighborhood Costco, I looked up to see two guys pushing a loaded cart out the other side. A small bag of green caught my eye. Limes.
The rest of the cart was densely packed with booze. Beer, wine, vodka, schnapps. The cart must have weighed a ton. Took both guys to push it.
The thought came unbidden. I wondered if, because of all that, someone was going to land in the hospital. With alcohol poisoning, or dead from a DUI.
Some 750 people have been killed by drunk drivers on Labor Day weekend, which is the fourth deadliest of all holidays. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), there are 300,000 drunk driving incidents each and every day in America.
Each and every day, all day long.
One death about every 48 minutes. That’s someone’s daughter, friend, husband, child, wife, cousin, grandfather, grammy.
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