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My name is Dr. Charles Wentworth.

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I conduct research in the field of
physiology.

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The story you are about to see involves some
facts about physiology, but it is more than

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a clinical report.

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It is a story that revolves around two
seemingly unrelated articles, a good luck...

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an ordinary hypodermic syringe.

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In conducting some of my experiments, it is
filled with a colorless, inflammable fluid

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with a characteristic odor and a pungent
taste.

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The experimental formula, C2H5, you know it
as alcohol.

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My research is devoted to alcohol and its
effects on the human body.

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But not all experimenting is done in
laboratories such as this.

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A certain amount of experimentation goes on
under less scientific conditions.

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Jerry Landon is one such experimenter.

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Jerry Landon, home from college for a
vacation of fun and relaxation.

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After a while, we make vets.

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See, the guy that can thread the needle first
after the most beers wins.

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And so who did?

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Do you think he'd tell us if he didn't?

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Well, you asked me what effect beer has, and
I told you, on me, none.

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Jerry Landon is one of the types who
experiments with drinking, the all-out type.

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Keith Stevens, on the other hand, is much
more conservative.

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Hey, Keith, how would you and Mary like to go
out to the lake tomorrow?

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What time?

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Early?

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Take a steak, make a day of it.

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Think it over.

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Like to?

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Oh, Keith, I can't.

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I promise you.

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Promise your mother you'd do something on
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How'd you know?

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Because you like to plan everything in
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Nothing spur of the moment.

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Am I that bad?

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I didn't say I was bad.

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It's just different for me, I guess.

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I like to let things take their course.

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What do you have?

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Beer.

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The Coke's all right.

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Coke and a beer.

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Now there, I'll bet you planned that answer.

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If I was going to have beer, you were going
to have a Coke, right?

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Well, maybe, but not just to be different.

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I plan not to drink because I plan not to
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Hi.

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Hi.

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Made up your mind about tomorrow yet?

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Yeah, I'll go.

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Stag.

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This girl's got to be different.

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Same for you.

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I'll have a ginger ale.

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Me too.

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See, I'm not so different.

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Holy smokes, Dan.

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Here I go building her up that she's being
somebody different.

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Then you have to go order ginger ale.

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What gives?

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Here's what gives.

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The one and only car in the Parker family is
in my keeping.

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And there's a rule of the house.

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No drinking and driving.

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Not even beer?

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Not even water.

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Ginger ale.

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Hi.

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Hi, Jerry.

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Let me see.

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My car keys?

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No, the charm.

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Now, wait a minute.

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That's my lucky piece.

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It got me through history last term.

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And I'm counting on it to graduate me.

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Couldn't I trade you out of it?

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Looks to me like you have enough charm.

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Not the bracelet he's referring to.

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Well, I don't have any like this one.

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What do you say, Bev?

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Protect me.

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You better let her have it.

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She's got that collector's gleam in her eye.

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Well, there goes my luck.

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If I flunk out next year, it won't

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be because little Edie didn't plan it.

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She's a great little schemer.

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How about another round?

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Not now.

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I think we better dance.

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That's too.

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Come on.

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Let's do it.

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All right, big dance.

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I guess that leaves you, Jerry.

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All down the fort.

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The evening slipped pleasantly away for the
three young men

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and their dates.

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For Keith Stevens, who did some drinking.

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For Jerry Landon, who held down the fort.

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And for Dan Parker, who stuck to ginger ale.

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Here in the laboratory, we've devised some
scientific

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methods to help the young men and their
dates.

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Here in the laboratory, we've devised some
scientific methods

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to determine what effects Keith and Jerry
might reasonably

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expect from their haphazard experiments with
alcohol.

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We use test animals with definite amounts of
alcohol.

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This animal has no alcohol in its system.

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You might compare it to a ginger ale drinker.

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This is an animal which has previously been
injected with

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only enough alcohol to bring the level in its
blood up to

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what it would be in a human being after

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drinking four beers.

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The third animal has received enough alcohol
to bring its

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blood alcohol level up to a percentage
comparable to the

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of heavy indulgence.

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Say, someone who had been holding down the
fort all evening.

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What's the first one?

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The one without alcohol.

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His reflexes are fast and automatic.

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He immediately copes with the unusual
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The fourth animal has received enough alcohol
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level up to a percentage comparable to the
alcohol level.

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He immediately copes with the unusual
situation.

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In number two, with a moderate amount of
alcohol,

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his coordination seems to take more effort.

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He meets the unexpected situation less
skillfully.

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There's a perceptible decrease in his ability
to balance.

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His reflexes are impaired.

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He meets the influence of alcohol.

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He meets the situation in a completely
befuddled state.

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Note the complete inability to balance.

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This one is just not fit to cope with the
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Yet he can walk away.

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Test animals aren't alone in showing these
reactions.

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Let's take a walk over to a classroom where

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human reactions are being tested.

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Now let's see what would happen when driving
under the influence of alcohol.

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To find out, we use the Aetna Drivotrainer.

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A unique teaching device with real car
controls,

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the Drivotrainer employs a series of special
instructional films

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to present actual on-the-road driving
conditions shown on a screen.

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The drivers of these individual classroom
cars

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have a driver's eye view of this motion
picture highway.

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Let's imagine you're driving and haven't
taken alcohol.

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Watch out for that delivery man.

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Your rapid perception of the situation and
quick brake reaction

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prevented what could have been a fatal
accident.

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Now let's suppose you had done some drinking

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and are driving down the same road.

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You're driving a little too fast and have a
false sense of confidence.

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Watch it, a few more feet might have meant
tragedy.

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This time let's imagine you're fully under
the influence.

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Reflexes are slow, judgment poor,

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and you're too late and too slow to avoid
hitting the delivery man.

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Your confidence was high, but your reactions
and judgment were low.

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Yes, like animal number three here,

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when you're under the influence of alcohol
you keep on trying,

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you keep on thinking you can.

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Your coordination is low, but your confidence
may be high.

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Certainly Jerry Landon's confidence was high.

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There, I told you I could do it, and you
ain't seen nothing yet.

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Jerry in front of an audience may be able to
perform satisfactorily,

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but when he's alone and driving, he lets down
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and therefore the safety factor.

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The End

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Why don't you just patch things up with
Jerry?

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I can't, he's gone already.

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Besides, I didn't want to ride with Jerry, he
had too much to drink.

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Jerry's gone by himself? Gosh, he was kind of
under the weather.

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Well, I didn't want him to go alone. I tried
again to let me drive.

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You know, that worries me.

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Bev, do you think I ought to go after him and
see if he makes it home alright?

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Somebody ought to. I wish somebody would.

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But we've got to take Bill and Rita and Edie
here.

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Well, if you go looking for Jerry, he'll
never get home tonight.

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Something wrong here?

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Jerry's gone on home, and in his condition,

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we think somebody ought to catch up with him
to make sure he gets there.

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And Edie's stranded.

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Well, we can go after him and we can take
Edie with us.

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I think I might stay here and go with Sam.

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But I don't know if Bill and Rita are ready
to go yet.

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Well, I'll go get the coats.

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I wish you two were ready to go.

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He's been drinking too.

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I don't think he's been drinking that much. I
mean, enough to hurt anything.

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What do you think?

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I think it's alright. I'm not afraid to go
with him.

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Well...

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Look, I can take you home now and come back
for Bill and Rita.

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Well, that'd be an awful lot of trouble.

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Maybe I better just call Mother and tell her
I'll be late.

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Oh, come on and go with Ed.

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Besides, you might keep Mad by insinuating
he's drunk.

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I guess so.

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Well, alright. Fine.

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Here are your coats.

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Thank you.

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Now, you drive carefully tonight.

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Okay. You've made up your mind.

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Well, Keith, take it easy.

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Sure hope you find Jerry alright.

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See you tomorrow. Bye.

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Bye, Edie.

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Bye.

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Somewhere out, a drunken driver was behind
the wheel.

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But by the time Dan and Bev had taken the
other couple home,

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they felt much less apprehensive.

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They supposed Keith had caught up with Jerry
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And then...

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Siren

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Oh, what is it?

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Looks like an accident.

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You don't suppose it was Jerry?

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Keith should have been able to catch him by
now.

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You wait here. I'll go see if I can help.

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Just give me a minute.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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You got any more power?

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Yeah, just a little bit.

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Music

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I'll be right back.

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Music

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More power?

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No.

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Dan, it was Jerry.

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No, not Jerry.

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Someone in the crowd up there had seen the
state patrol stop a car that was weaving.

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But that was before the accident.

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I asked about it.

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The description fits Jerry's car.

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I guess he's safe.

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The police took him on in.

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Oh, thank heavens.

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For a minute there, I thought it was Jerry.

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What's that you got there?

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My good luck piece.

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The one I gave Edie.

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She didn't want to ride with Keith.

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With Keith?

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I found it up there at the side of the road.

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Why didn't she stick to her guns?

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Why didn't she insist on riding with us?

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Why did I let her go off with someone who'd
been drinking?

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But Keith wasn't drunk?

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No.

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Keith wasn't drunk.

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No, Keith wasn't drunk the way Jerry was.

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Had he been, the police might have picked him
up too.

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But Keith had just enough alcohol to slow his
reactions in a critical moment.

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A moment that was to send him and Mary and
Edie to the hospital.

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I know one thing.

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You can't trust luck.

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If the driver's been drinking, you've got to
stick to your guns and turn down the ride.

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Always.

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Nobody can afford to drive with alcohol
present in the body.

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Today's heavy traffic and high speed cars
make the odds heavy against the non-drinki...

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Out of consideration for the safety of others
and yourself,

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should you drive if you have been drinking
recently?

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Should you ride with a driver who has?

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These decisions ought not to be difficult for
you to make.

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