He didn't do it. He stopped and went home.
Then the phone rang. It was his brother-in-law, offering money to tide him over. Once again, someone had stepped in when he hit bottom.
But his luck did not hold for long. He was fired just before Christmas in 1978, and then again just before Christmas in 1979.
Around that second Christmas, on a bitterly cold day, he pulled into a drive-in restaurant.