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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Nov 20, 2009 5:13:26 am PST #20425 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Vortex - Nov 20, 2009 5:15:28 am PST #20426 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I went to the "good" high school in my area. Our kids were better than everyone else. And then Jay Johnson, track star and honor student, got busted for selling coke. DRAMA. The parents were flipping out (I can't believe this happened at Woodbridge ), all the kids were completely blase
Gudanov - Nov 20, 2009 5:15:31 am PST #20427 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
There was plenty of alcohol at my high school and pot was pretty easy to come by as well. I didn't do anything, the couple of times I tried alcohol the only affect was nausea and I hated the taste. Thus I became the designated driver like everywhere. I was around people who smoking pot and doing LSD, but it didn't look especially fun. The LSD in particular seemed to elicit some after school special badness, the last high school party I went to (as a College Freshman home during the summer) had some people doing LSD and it went really bad. My friend and I did some first aid for a couple of people and then got the hell out of there.
flea - Nov 20, 2009 5:19:04 am PST #20428 of 30001
information libertarian
I knew a couple of kids who drank Robitussin in high school. One guy was actually nicknamed "Robo." Now *that's* pathetic. There was alcohol, pot, LSD and shrooms, but only a couple of kids who had a rep for coke (class of '90). Although in 1985 two kids from my high school went to Columbia for spring break and tried to smuggle home a surfboard hollowed out and filled with cocaine. It made 60 Minutes!
Personally, I never had more than an occasional family-based glass of wine before college, and have never done any illegal drugs except that one time I was passed a joint but didn't inhale (because I didn't know how!) mr. flea will be the one discussing recreational drug use with our children.
tommyrot - Nov 20, 2009 5:21:37 am PST #20429 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in high school I only knew of alcohol consumption. Which I avoided because I was always the driver. Later I found out there had been pot smoking at my high school as well.
It wasn't until I was a junior and senior in college that I ran into the other stuff....
Gudanov - Nov 20, 2009 5:25:54 am PST #20430 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
College was much more sedate, there was drinking, but, at least with the people I hung with, it just social drinking.
beth b - Nov 20, 2009 5:28:21 am PST #20431 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
There was all kinds of stuff in my high school -- and I know nothing about how easy it was because I did notheing. I was a goody. I didn't get drunk until it was legal.
tommyrot - Nov 20, 2009 5:29:49 am PST #20432 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I didn't get drunk until it was legal.
Heh. The first time I got drunk was about 8 months after I became legal (the drinking age was 18 in Wisconsin then).
Jessica - Nov 20, 2009 5:32:49 am PST #20433 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Coke was pretty easy to get when I was in high school (in the DC area during the Marion Barry era, natch), but I don't think it was very common in my particular school. Or maybe I just didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.
Connie Neil - Nov 20, 2009 6:00:04 am PST #20434 of 30001
brillig
I have no idea about the drugs in my high school. I was offered a pill of some sort when I was a freshman, but I just stared at the guy, wondering "Why is he wanting me to have that?" Naivete has its uses. I graduated in '79, in extremely rural Southwestern Pennsylvania.
I saw various stuff in college, but mostly pot and booze. I'm sure other stuff was around, but we were never introduced.