"Two bad decisions away from homelessness"

Would your friends or family tell you if they thought you were acting in a potentially-destructive way that risked fucking up your life? I don't know if mine would, although I would like to think so. Lord knows certain people in my life have been outspoken in their distate for my (only partially cured) Diet Coke habit, which I really do appreciate. Most of the time. Which is really just a long way of saying I thought Sam de Brito's column today was kind of a cracker.