We were 4 friends traveling back after attending a marriage of a friend from a neighboring city. It was about 100 km (about 62 miles) away from the city we lived in. It was the wee hours of the morning and a cold winter.

The marriage went on for long and we partied with the usual concoctions. We weren’t worried to drive back as we had a ‘sober’ driver, a friend who never drank in his life.

Three of us dosed off as soon as the vehicle started moving.

Suddenly, we were thrown against each other, and we woke up to our senses. The car had gone off the road and had hit a tree face on.

We looked at each other and somehow found that we were all in our senses. However, we found our ‘sober’ friend who was driving the car unconscious. His head on the steering wheels. We pulled him back, and he collapsed. He was profusely bleeding from his nose, corner of his eyes, and forehead.

With the help of a passerby, we took him to a small hospital nearby. Somehow, the injuries were superfluous, and after initial first aid, the doctor asked us to take him to a better facility.

Meanwhile, we had asked one of our friends to pick us up.

We were about to be leave when the doctor stopped us and said, ‘never again drink and drive’. We looked at each other and told the doctor that he is a ‘teetotaler’. The doctor laughed and said, ‘your friend was drunk. I’m a doctor, I know better’.

Soon, one of our friends from the marriage party called and revealed that ‘just to have fun’, one of them had poured a ‘little Whishky’ in our teetotaler’s coke.

The prank came at a very high cost, indeed. We could have died.

The best lesson, thus to us is ‘don’t mix driving and drinking ever’.