-420- Happy Happy 420
I was first introduced to 420 in junior high. Back then though I didn’t participate in the festivities, and I wished that my friends hadn’t either. They started partying to damn early. They really thought they were flower children. I was on this “pure” movement I would say. I didn’t smoke until I was 15, but all of my friends started a couple years before me. Out of my “black” friends, I was the only one who hung out with the “white” people. So that’s how I got introduced the second time to 420. It’s my parents fault for sending me to that school because the truth is white kids always have drugs. It was always the same group of us. One of my friend’s parents owned a farm, where we spent most of our time doing drugs. A couple of other people from our class, and sometimes her two cousins were always with us, even if we weren’t necessarily celebrating the actual day of 420. Thinking back on those days, I have a lot of random memories, but no real connection to what we actually did on 420 back in the early 2000’s. I’m sure it looked somewhat like a basement scene from “That 70’s Show”.
I’m thinking did our teachers/parents know that we smoked like we did? My friends were smoking at age 12!! And nobody went to rehab.. I know my mother knew when I first started @ 15. She either knew later on after I told her i quit, and figured she couldn't do anything, or I hid it really well. How did we not get pulled over by the 2 cops that patrolled the city of where I went to school? We constantly smoked out our cars..How stupid. I would never do that now, for many reasons. My daughter being #1. We were risk takers.
I remember smoking often before tennis matches, and having vodka in our water bottles. The water bottle idea was not mine. That credit goes to my friend with the farm. One of my girls even passed out at a match. I never was really a drinker. I remember on our last trip together as a class…We went to a city that was windy. I have no idea what went on there, and I remember is my girl who I’ll call Lennon pulling me up a flight of stair saying “This is it, until we get back to school. I’ve got more in the car.” I do remember when we got back getting into my car, driving off and leaving her ass there to get higher I guess. I figure every generation will have their group of people who will experiment with drugs. But does a drug abusing adolescent always grow into a drug abusing adult? I wonder if they are still up to the same thing? To the blogger.com people if you celebrate..celebrate to the fullest! Happy 420 oh and Earth Day!!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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