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People have developed an alarming tendency to relegate responsibility for their own selves to - well, somebody else. I see this every weekend night and especially on nights known as "drinking holidays" (New Year's Eve, St.Pats, Independence Day, etc). More and more the attitude especially among "20-somethings" is that they work hard and these nights are nights when they can just throw responsibility to the wind, get pig-faced blind drunk, and some combination of bartenders, bus drivers and cabbies will be responsible for getting them home safely AND putting up with all the attitude they care to give out. In fact I have stopped working those nights because I will not put up with this nonsense. In more than one case a person has fallen asleep in the cab before giving me a specific destination. When they didn't wake up to a verbal stimulus, I drove them right to the Public Safety Center, where they were promptly awakend by Sheriff's deputies and given a place to safely sleep it off. (I am not going to shake a drunk awake. They can become very combative!)
This is very evident on these nights, but even more so when they expect the Government to tend to them when they are sick, broke, or have any widdo boo-boo that needs kissing. A lot of us Baby Boomers were spoiled rotten, and we raised even more spoiled kids. These are the natural prey of those who hold out more and bigger, more pervasive government as a solution to all their ills.