The well-regarded and prominent design agency had operated successfully for many years, up until a few employees became disgruntled and posted negative reviews about them on a rating website. The one-star rating showed up in Google search results when their name was searched upon, and as that page began to mysteriously rise in the search results, they noticed that inquiries and new clients were coming in less and less.
It seemed like she was just having a fun night out on the town, but it took a turn for the worse when Lori accidentally struck a parked car while driving her friends home from a party.
That in of itself might not have been a big deal, but she had had one beer, hours earlier at the party, and the fender bender upset her a lot. She just knew her dad was going to freak out. One of her friends hit her head on a side window when the accident occurred, and felt sick and unsteady on her feet. A bystander that saw the accident insisted that Lori and her friends stay put while the police and an ambulance were called.
The police that showed up seemed to not believe that she had only one drink, hours earlier, and insisted on administering a sobriety test — they said their breathalyzer unit was malfunctioning, so they would just assess her balance and ask her a few questions. She failed the test — she was nervous and upset, and stumbled while trying to walk an imaginary line, and she never had been good at counting backwords.
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