Posted by alohashirt on August 12, 2005, at 22:56:25
In reply to Re: I tried the ritalin., posted by Paulbwell on August 12, 2005, at 2:18:41
Thats funny to hear that. More than two decades ago, as a green college student, I used to attend wine tastings and once bemoaned to a friend that I could never get the most out of the tastingh because I would get drunk even when spitting the wine, because I didn't have much of a tolerance for alcohol. My friend, whose girlfriend was a drug dealer, gave me a bag of small blue pills and said "take a couple of these at the start of evening - if needed take some more"
Foolishly I took these methamphetamine tablets and found I was able to taste the wine without seeming to get drunk - so I went out with the rest of teh crew to a party then another, drinking and taking these blue "sober up pills" as the night progressed and I truly believed that because I didn't feel drunk or sleepy I was 100%. All I remeber of the rest of the evening is going of with a women who showed me her wig could move, being terrified that I had been necking with a transsexual, feeling reassured that I hadn;'t been, meeting a dancer in ahotel bar who laughed at my story and agreed to take a train to the seaside at 7.00am on the spur of the moment, spending the day walking on the beach all the next day and then ending up home almost 72 hours later with another person's phone number in my pocket, unable to speak coherently, open my front door. After 20 hours sleep I rejoined my normal life swearing I would never have such an experience again. The next day I received a call from a stranger "Gina" asking if we were still on for our dinner date at restuarant X. I went to said restuarant and met this complete stranger, having no memeory of ever speaking to her before. She seemed to know my life story and described what sounded like a much more exciting night out than any I could ever recall having. She said that I seemed peculiarly boring compared to my mood on the weekend.
The irony is that many years later a medication that is very similar to that recreational drug is a foundation of my career success in a very conservative, corporate world and as a non-drinking, non-smoking, non-drug taking middle aged parent of two I know my children will look at me pityingly one day and think "poor Dad, he never really lived like we do"
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