honestly just wanted to talk about this, it happened about 6 years ago when i was a little edgy 14 year old.
id been smoking weed for a few months when my friend at the time showed me a little baggie with 3 tabs, 1 for him, 1 for my boyfriend, 1 for me. no idea how much was in them, i didnt know much about it at the time. but being a rebellious kid i of course said fuck it. obviously none of our parents would approve so we decided to go for an all nighter in the city for whatever reason…
we were all rural kids, been to the city maybe once in our lives, it was a long journey. we had to stop at a place called frankston on the way (any melbournians would know - it’s a shithole) it’s about 10:30 at this point and all 3 of us are absolutely tripping balls already just on the come up, as we navigate the totally unsafe frankston alleyways, empty except for the junkies. this is when my boyfriend at the time who was big into led zeppelin, motley crue, pink floyd and whoever put some headphones on my head and clicked play on dark side of the moon. why was that his album of choice? who knows 😭😭
with the headphones blaring on full volume, i was totally immersed in the experience. it was going fine, felt like a game running through frankston until time started playing. by this point i had forgotten that i had the capability to take my headphones off, fully believing the song was just naturally coming from the brick walls or some shit. i felt genuine adrenaline with the clock sounds rattling my brain, the faces of every frankston homeless person looking like it was stretching out towards me as i ran. nothing scary about homeless people but this was around the time i was shown a video of a stabbing that occurred a 2 minute walk away from where we were.
i wasn’t freaking out or anything, i think my cute little underdeveloped brain found it very exciting. UNTIL the friend who gave me the tab thought it was a bright idea to get my attention by spraying deodorant directly in my eyes from 5 cm away. i think my reaction was delayed because a fair bit definitely got in my eyes, they burned the rest of the trip. i don’t think he meant to harm me, the second he saw i was in pain he started crying and trying to pour water in my eyes.
so, by this point time was nearly over and we decided to make our way over to the bus for the city. we sat down at the back and i looked to my left, it was the meth-addicted mum of a boy at my school. the week before, this kid had climbed through a gap in the tower of mats i was sitting on at school, reached up and grabbed my ass through them.. i don’t know why, but he was definitely mentally not all there. his mum was nice, she offered me a hit of her pipe lol. i thankfully turned it down, although, i was more concerned about her bright red stretching face than the meth.
we finally got to the city after a long journey, the lights were very exciting. we found our way to the only place we were legally allowed into at that time, a maccas. we tried to eat but the food looked smelled and tasted like plastic (kinda accurate). instead, we opted for people-watching. we must’ve looked like total idiots because 2 men came up to us, they were tourists from some european country who found our state pretty funny. they seemed concerned when we said we had nowhere to go, so we trusted them when they told us to follow them.
as we were crossing the road with them, they told us they were bringing us to “the gay sex park”. still no idea where that came from, but we ended up at a pretty nice, empty park. little bit gross, but i spent the entire 6 hours until the first train home sitting on my boyfriends back squeezing his zits 🤮 passed the time pretty well though because those hours felt like 2 minutes.
anyways, i don’t know who sold those to us but it was definitely acid and definitely shouldn’t have been sold to children hahaha. didn’t discourage me from trying again, but the experiences definitely got worse as my brain developed. i would NOT have been able to handle all that today