With prom tomorrow and Frisco High School putting on Shattered Dreams this week, the topic of drinking and driving is quite relevant for high schoolers this weekend. I feel like I’ve heard more warnings about drinking and being a stupid teenager than I ever have before. My teachers have been sending us seniors off from class with “Have fun at prom! Please don’t do anything to get arrested!” All of our parents are worried and yet, I still hear seniors talking about being monumentally idiotic tomorrow night.

Here’s the deal: I’m not asking you to be a saint. I know almost everyone is going to party tomorrow and that’s just the fact of the matter. But please, I am begging you, don’t be careless with yours or your friends’ lives. Don’t drink and drive. Just don’t do it. You’re not only putting your life in danger, you’re putting your friends, your neighbors, and people you don’t even know in a situation that they don’t deserve. There is absolutely nothing that is worth that.

Adults have a bad opinion of our decision making for good reason. No matter how much I resent that, I know why they do, because we have systematically made decisions like drunk driving even though we know the deadly repercussions of such a decision. So, here’s my plea: have fun, just be responsible. Be responsible with your life and your future. And I swear, if I hear one person bragging about they’re a better driver when they’re drunk (yes, I have heard that before), I will personally take their keys and throw them off the balcony of the W. Prom is supposed to be a night to remember, but you have to be around to remember it.