Drive safe, eat chocolate.

Easter brings holidays and chocolates, a great excuse to abandon the diet, and family time and tragic road deaths. Every year, we take to the highways and sacrifice some of our number as if to the pagan god of the road. The traffic police will be out in full force enforcing the laws and catching who they can but it will still be a dangerous proposition taking to the streets. Because it's the holidays we may have a toot or three. We tend to overestimate how much alcohol takes you to over limit. It is not two beers, rather a third of one, and a glass of wine which could be anything from 250ml to 450ml is way over the limit. A tot means just that, not a double. The only real way to be safe is no drinking at all.
Apart from guestimating your safe limit, other factors play a role. Unfair as it is women can't drink the boys under the table, as our bodies deal with alcohol differently, we get drunker faster on less, and since we are usually smaller, it takes longer to leave our systems.
Dutch courage may give you charm and confidence but also relaxes your reflexes so split second decisions will take longer.
In addition to the usual precautions we take when driving, staying alert, taking breaks, limiting distractions, keeping a sensible following distance, we can all choose to stay off cellphones behind the wheel. Texting while driving is dangerous, apparently as bad a intoxication. So even if you are the multi tasking mistress of the universe in your daily life, you are fooling yourself if you really think you can do it all when driving. Get a grip. How many times has some idiot cut into your lane, and just when you think they must be blind realise that they have a phone attached to their heads, or are not even looking at the road because they are sending a very important text message. Like "whats for dinner?',or 'what you wearing?". How useless to have an accident over the mundane arrangements of what to eat.
So my Easter wish is that no one gets hurt this year on the roads, but lots of chocolate bunnies get eaten.