Overheard at Coffee Break

I'm not sure how it happened, but the guys (all between the ages of 45 and 55) in the lunchroom today at afternoon coffee break started talking about the drugs they used to use in the days of their youth.

"There was this guy who used to sell pure THC. I guess what they'd do is liquify the weed and put it in a centrifuge separating the THC, then we'd snort it. I was sitting in class one day after the first time I had done it, and I could swear my nose was running, and I kept checking it but it wasn't, then I felt like I was up to my chest in snot. After school, we went back to my friend's place, and we put this Alice Cooper record on, and there was this song where it's just the sound of a mother calling her child over and over again, and all I kept thinkin' it was my mom calling me."

"Yeah, but coke was the best. You wanna stay up for a week straight..."

"I used to do window pane a lot-"

ME: What's "window pane"?

"It's acid."

"I used to give my cat window pane by the quarter square, and he'd go haywire! Hid tail would stick out straight, and he'd start walking sideways. Then, he'd go to the window and I was always worried he was gonna jump out and go "splat" on the ground (because I lived like four stories up), but he'd just leap out onto the eavestrough and run up onto the roof and he'd just fuckin' howl for hours and hours! When I moved out to BC, my sister offered to take care of him for me but he turned out to be so crazy that she had to have him put down. Kept attackin' people I guess."

"This other time, me and my buddy decided to do acid and go fishin'. We had a bunch of beer with us, and we figured it would be a good idea to tie the case to a rock and sink it to the bottom of the lake to keep it cold. Problem was, we didn't think to attach a rope to it, and we ended up sinking it deeper than we could manage to swim, so we had to go back to shore and grab some big rocks to weigh ourselves down with to reach the bottom each time we wanted a beer. Pretty near fuckin' drowned that day! Now, I had been fishing that particular spot at that lake my whole life up to that point, but when we were ready to leave, I was completely lost! That's how fucked up I was. Eventually, we made it back but it took us a couple hours. Then -and I can't remember why- this guy wanted to fight me. So I was like, 'you wanna fight? Let's fight!' and I guess I was so intense and fidgety that I just scared the shit out of him and eventually he was just beggin' me not to fight him."