How To Keep Your Friend From Driving Drunk

Step 1: Become The Key Master

If your friend has driven to a party and then proceeded to destroy their liver by ingesting copious amounts of alcohol you should steal their car keys so that they cannot drive home. Stealing their keys will require you to dust off your improve skills from freshman year drama, but don't sweat it. Even if you're not that great of an actor, it's pretty easy to fool a drunk.

Step 2: Taxi!

If your friend gets really drunk at a party then it's in everyone's best interest to quietly put your friend in a taxi, and send them on their way home. You should always pay for the cab in advance and make sure that the driver has explicit directions.

Step 3: Slumber Party

Invite your friend to crash at your place instead of driving back home. Use an incentive like homemade burritos or your Grandma's famous biscuits and gravy. Drunk people will go to the ends of the Earth for a bite to eat.

Step 4: Designate Yourself

When you and your friends decided to go out, you should have agreed on a designated driver. Without one, you risk losing your drunken friend to an accident behind the wheel. A great alternative is for you to become the designated driver. Somebody must claim responsibility for this person and that somebody is you. Get your drunken friend's keys and drive their car home for them. If you drove to the party as well, get a sober friend to follow you in your car and then drive back to the party. This way your friend gets to sleep in their bed, with their car parked outside of their home.

Step 5: Have A Barbara Walters Moment

If you've exhausted all possible means of keeping your friend from driving drunk, then it's time to get serious. Sit your friend down, and tell them how much they mean to you. Tell them how you couldn't live with yourself, knowing that you could have prevented them from hurting themselves and others but did nothing. Tell them explicitly how you feel.