I'm a cripple now. I have a blown disk in my neck, causing me constant nerve pain down the left side and left arm. Chronic pain - night and day, week after week, month after month, year after year - it will be with me a constant companion for the rest of my life. Also my right knee is totally screwed up - they 'repaired' it the best they could, but I walk with a limp - that is on the good days, most other days I rely heavily on a cane. How did I come to be this way? By eating lunch in a store parking lot. Actually I was siting in my truck, in a store parking lot, eating my lunch one fine day - listening to the radio and getting a few minutes rest when a big rig tractor (without the trailer) came barreling over the curb, through the parking lot right into the driver's side of the truck. The driver... Well he had had a 'few too many' and this was his second or third time caught drunk behind the wheel. His injuries? None - he can still run, play football, swim, go for long walks, work, turn his head quickly, enjoy sex (hard to have sex with a lame knee) and various other minor things that we do in life. I, a hard working man who worked (past tense) in the labor side of construction) who was innocently enjoying a warm day by eating my lunch in my truck in what I thought was a safe parking lot... well my life is fucked up for ... gee... the rest of my life. So you want to tell me your a good person, who has made 2 bad choices and you are worried about a little possible jail time. Pardon me if I can not empathize with you. And further pardon me if I hope that the judge, or the DA or someone in their family has first hand personal understanding of what happens when a drunk gets behind the wheel of a vehicle. Something along the lines of my personal knowledge. As far as I'm concerned, you had you one choice. If it was left up to me, not only would you spend some time in jail, but you would also come to my house and live with me for a month and watch my life, and even help me out around here with tending my two acres, and seeing how I much I had to change every aspect of my day to day life because some other guy had his 'chance' and ruined it. Now this is not the worst - see the worst is that Students Against Drunk Drivers, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and other similar organizations have give a voice for those other victims who, like me, had their life dramatically changed by a drunk driver. Granted I'm 'lucky' in that I still have a voice, many others are now dead so rely upon MADD and SADD to speak for them to these judges, DAs, politician types who make laws. So yeah most likely you may get some jail time. I do hope they pull your god damn license, and I do hope they impound your vehicle. I do hope that you DO get a program of recovery and get your happy 'good' ass clean and sober so you do not ever - never ever ever ever - get behind a wheel with so much as a single beer in your system. Now then, I want you to seriously look at your question and consider the far bigger picture here - consider why there are laws against drunk driving, and why you were slapped on wrist the first time and given a second chance. And I do hope you understand, now, the seriousness and the potential for harm that drinking and driving can cause. Maybe then you will understand why a little jail time is a hell of a lot better than maiming a human being, or killing them.

Chances are you were still on some form of probation for the first one. If you chose to drink and drive again and were..chances are the judge is going to give you some jail time because you obviously learned nothing from the sentence the first time :)

Public service for maybe 30 days. Depends on the law, where you live. How does wearing jailhouse colors and picking up trash on the interstate sound to you??

These days, yes. You should really reconsider whether you want to continue to drink.