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Oh, that just makes me sick. I hope he’s OK. The kids around here all drink too much and so many of them die — especially in the spring with Prom and Graduation.

My oldest Grandson is going to his Prom this year in NY (near Albany). My daughter has spent the last 2 weeks getting her yard ready because she’s having the Pre-Prom and pictures at her house. (10 guests). Then the limo (rented by the parents) will pick them up and take them all to the Prom. The kids all had to sign a contract (furnished by the limo driver) no drinking and no smoking — no going anywhere else besides the Prom in Saratoga Springs. Then they will be picked up and brought back to another house where the parents and a couple of other people will ride herd on them all night. Boys will sleep in the basement and girls on 3rd floor. Parents will be patrolling the in between floor to make sure everyone stays where they are supposed to.

My daughter has already reserved the same limo and driver for next year. Same plan. God help these parents and these kids. One more year and they’ll be off to college and nobody will be in control, except for themselves.

We just learned yesterday that a young man who was a bus boy at a restaurant where we eat was killed last month after a house party. He was driving drunk — .11 something — and was hit by another drunk driver whose blood alchohol was .2 something. The kid (sister in car, also hurt) was ejected because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt. He was hit March 12 and died April 30. They are having a fund-raiser at the restaurant where he worked for the family to help defray the hospital bills.

Such a waste.