The First One's Free... But Then You Gotta Pay!

[Jer]

      www.pencilstorm.com/blog/2024/the-first-ones-freebut-then-you-gotta-pay-episode-ii-the-replacements

[oldmatsfan]

That was a good read, thanks for sharing it.

[Hagbard]

Thanks for this!

[anarkissed]

Great read. Loved the story about Bob helping providing cover for two underaged kids who otherwise would have been kicked out of the "21 and over" show...A little disturbed to read how often Bob apparently asked strangers "Got any coke?", but it's not like I haven't done that before. (Here's a tangent: Bob would have been gone even earlier if the street drug scene was like it is now. We smoked, snorted and swallowed all kinds of things just trusting what we were given or bought, and, amazingly, I would guess about 90% of it was really what it was supposed to be. And if you did get a phony, the worst that would happen was nothing, because they gave you a vitamin instead of a Valium, or something. Not like that now...)

[Jer]

Mar 7, 2024 10:51:31 GMT -5 anarkissed said:

...A little disturbed to read how often Bob apparently asked strangers "Got any coke?", but it's not like I haven't done that before. (Here's a tangent: Bob would have been gone even earlier if the street drug scene was like it is now... )

Yes and yes. I knew Bob was a mess, of course, but even in this very small, not-very-random sampling, how many times that came up was crazy.

And also, yes... with fentanyl now, pills and powders are basically Russian Roulette. It's terrifying to ponder.