The Piano’s Been Drinking

Sue Hirsch
4 min readJul 28, 2021

I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve heard bad behavior blamed on booze.

I’ve got news for you:

The booze didn’t do it.

If you were drunk when you groped a girl at the amusement park, like THIS GUY, or when you raped a young woman, like Kavanaugh did,

or wrapped your car around a tree or committed drunken manslaughter with your vehicle then it’s not the booze that’s the problem.

You see, a bottle of booze can’t drive a car or rape a woman and no one held a gun to your head to make you drink.

More to the point:

NO ONE CARES WHAT MADE YOU RAPE OR KILL.

All your victim’s family knows is: You’ve murdered or raped their loved one, and their lives will never be the same.

If you’re lucky, the families of your victims (because there will always be more than one) will feel compelled to forgive you, citing a “good Christian upbringing”.

The question is, will you be able to forgive YOURSELF? A better question is:

If you CAN forgive yourself, then what kind of person are you?!

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