Don't drink and drive

I awoke early Thanksgiving morning, half asleep and mostly naked. I blundered through my room searching for some warm article of clothing to help me combat the cool autumn chill that had so conveniently set itself up in my room. Stumbling up the stairs, headed toward the kitchen, the old wood-beam steps creaked and groaned under my feet. Reaching for a box of Count Chocula, the guilt factor set in when I once again realized I hadn’t seen my mother in nearly a year. Replacing the box of cereal I decided I would hold off on a morning snack and wait to gluten myself at the feast I’m sure my mother was already hard at work on.

My body desperately needed some sort of nourishment to fuel me through the four hour drive to my mom’s humble abode. Settling for some orange juice, I got a glass and headed for the fridge. When reaching for my juice, I couldn’t help but notice that the top shelf was freshly stocked with Budweiser. I thought to myself “Dad wont be up for hours due to working double his shift at the mines last night… and I would have a long, boring, four hour journey to embark upon. What the hell” I couldn’t resist. Forget the orange juice I needed some beer. Qui

Now is when I realized that I was defiantly screwed. I tried just filling my mouth and cheeks with air and pushing it back out with my tongue. This really seemed to get on his last nerve.

“Boy,” he screamed!, “do you understand what I’m telling you to do!” Without waiting for my reply he continued, “Now take a deep breath and blow until I say to stop.”

“What the hell have I got myself into” I thought.

When I entered the jail it was dawn, now it was probably midnight. I climbed into the passengers seat of my dad’s truck, I knew I wouldn’t be driving for a while.

“I want you to take a deep breath and blow through it until I tell you to stop,” he explained.

Some topics in this essay:
VII Reducing, Rodney Estep, Greg Strong, Count Chocula, Hells Bells, Crown Victoria, Detention Center, Thanksgiving Chicken, Celica GT, Brethitt County”, deep breath, deep breath blow, chicken thanksgiving, plexy glass, milk cartons, metal bed, orange juice, breath blow, holding cell, “yes sir”, “no sir”,