Terror Rides

Every summer my dad would take the family to an assembly in another state. An assembly is when J.W's from many other states go for a 5 day conference. and they last all day from about 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in the afternoon with a lunch break in the middle. These were torture for us little kids because we also had to sit through them without falling asleep. Now my dad knew that he could not drink and get drunk while surrounded by so many J'W's, but my dads urge to drink was so strong that he would drink and drive with all of us in the car on our way to the assembly. Us kids knowing this was a bad thing, would not dare say a word against it to my dad for fear of getting hit. So our terror ride would begin, and not finish til we got to our destination, if we got there. Now on these trips none of us kids would fall asleep because we would watch out for others cars and warn my dad if we had to, and we also made sure he didn't fall asleep behind the wheel. What I don't understand is why my mother wouldn't make my dad pull over so that she could drive, that way us kids could just rest and not be scared that we were going to crash. To this day I often wonder how my dad never ended up in killing anyone.