'Safe'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
No social life == no sneaking in after curfew, no drugs, no car accidents... boy, were my parents unprepared for my younger brother.
Betsy is me. Then came college, and gaming until all hours. Even saw snow in New Orleans because I didn't get in until 5:30 a.m. one night.
I not only hid in the library, I worked there. Mmmm, books. Like being a morphine addict employed in a pharmacy.
I worked in the library.
I dated outside of my school circle, though. And did bad things, natch.
Nutty, thanks for the cites! It's interesting and depressing. The 31% of teens who got into a car with someone who drank in the previous 30 days seems low low low to me.
And 31% had been in a car where the driver had been drinking within the 30 days prior to the survey. 31%!!
well, if the driver was drinking 30 days ago, wouldn't it be safe now? (cause that's how I originally read the sentence)
well, if the driver was drinking 30 days ago, wouldn't it be safe now? (cause that's how I originally read the sentence)
how I read it too.
Right, I didn't phrase it properly.
The 31% (32% m, 29% f) was have you done this in the past 30 days, and they didn't have a statistic for have you done this in the last year, or ever, because then the statistics would skyrocket. They did say it was down from 35% overall in the 1997 report.
Also, bike helmet wearing is up (to like 18%) and motorcycle helmet wearing is holding steady somewhere close to 80%.
In my heart, I think I am a statistics nerd.
Again, 31% seems kind of low to me still. Dude, among my adult friends, at least 2 (though probably more) have gotten into a car with someone driving who has been drinking. And that is in this past year alone -- people who know better.
Changed it to read less like a statistic more like the truth.
I like the Crusie series books. I think they're better than some of the earlier stand-alones, or at least more tightly plotted; I don't think she knew what to do with the extra word length at first. My favorite Crusie is probably still my first: Anyone But You. Older woman! Neither partner wants kids! Publishing! Mocking of Wonderbras!
Someone mentioned the Palliser books, proving the Buffista Hivemind Is One. I finished Can You Forgive Her? this morning.
Please tell me Trollope stops trying to write about The Perfect Man. He is much better writing about people he doesn't approve of.