Quote # 1

Quote # 1:

“So think about the consequences before you drink and drive… remember, you can drink and you can drive but mix the two and you can die!” From: “Drunk Driving: A License To Kill” By: Marc Acushnet

Response:

While I did not use the quote in my solutions essay, I did use it in my So what? Who Cares? essay because I felt that it carried heavy meaning. Although it is simply put, the message with it is very clear. You can drink, and you can drive, just do not ever mix the two! You can die. Those three words are deep and have a lot of meaning behind them. It helped my paper by giving a look to the reader at what other people feel about this topic, not just myself. While reading through his article this happened to be the last sentence. It left the reader thinking about the choices that we make on a daily basis and how they can positively or negatively affect the rest of our lives. Consequences to a foolish act can be fatal, plain and simple. This quote jumped out at me, because being the reader of Marc’s article, I was left thinking about my friends and the choices they make on a daily basis. Frankly it scared me, and when I feel a connection like that to a sentence, I felt it should be displayed somewhere in my paper. It added a more real feeling to my essay rather than the usual facts and sometimes un-relatable stories. Everyone will face death, Marc is just insisting it should not be done because you were too cheap to call a cab, or too selfish to phone a friend or family member. What I truly got from this quote is that Marc, along with myself, care about others well being and know that what seems like a good choice at the time, can end up being a deadly one.