My Second And Last Experienced Trip

To tell of you about a period of time and a young man I am not today, nor condone the behavior his past, mine has shown. That in those days I was every bit nineteen and every sense of the word naive; but whoa, how alive I can say I was, living more in the moment than I do now. Even though I tell myself I do.

I was working construction as a laborer/ gopher (go for this go for that, for those of you who don't know the term.) In New Jersey making a living with not much ambition or direction as to where I was going in life, just trying to have fun in a partying frame of mind. I had by this time already met my girlfriend who would be my wife and mother of my three children, for now this was the golden times of BC(Before Children) and I was two years removed from being a father. It was a Friday so me and Jess(girlfriend/wife) had plans to go out later that night, but then that dumb ass that I dislike showed up in my mind coming to the conclusion that he would rather hang out with a guy at work who I had just befriended when he told me he was going to an underground club later that night, thus ditching Jess.

His name was John and he worked as a carpenter or what they called them in the home building business as punch out guy. I knew Jess would be mad but at the time I didn't seem to care. We went to his house after work so he could get changed, him living in Jersey and me and the party being in Philly. I learned it didn't start til ten and was way out in west Philadelphia. 

When we got to the club I didn't have the greatest feeling about it, but once inside the drinks began to flow and so did the club music even though I wasn't much of a techno club music fan. I started to notice also a flow of drugs from ecstasy, whip its, and finally LSD or acid. When John finally asked the question, "Do you want to do acid?" I hesitated for a moment than answered hell yeah. Now you know why I refer to this naive kid as a dumb ass. About an hour later I said to John  that I didn't feel a thing so lets do another one, and he agreed. Another hour later the whole time we are drinking and it is about two in the morning; I say John I don't feel shit let's do another one. He was like man im messed up but go ahead and do another one if you want. The last one I got from a girl in the bathroom and the paper blotter was fruity trix colors, and instantly knew this is the one that would get to me. 

At six in the morning I heard a voice say,"Alright everybody it's time to leave. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here!" Of course now I'm tripping, and John is no where to be found. When I finally find him he is strutting around pointing his finger like he is dancing to music and yet there is no music playing. Go ahead and laugh because that was my first reaction. I tell John can you drive he then gives me the keys to the truck, and as im getting ready to drive off he says im driving. Well its his truck and I haven't the slightest clue where we were, and as we set off on the journey to Jersey I realize he hasn't a clue either. We end up in center city Philadelphia and John pulls over parks and tells me we have to sleep here. My reply is, "Are you nuts?" We are in the city were thousands of people are at and it is just about late morning Saturday. Finally talking some sense into him we find the bridge ellude a cop or two and make it to his house unscathed.

John tells me he's going to bed as soon as we walk in, as I'm thinking this dude is nuts were both tripping balls and he's going to bed. He sets me up a place in the basement to sleep on the couch with some video games to play, that is when I start playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City and the TV looks like it's breathing and I for the first time feel fantastic. I fall asleep an hour or two later and wake to his pit bull licking my face and remember I was supposed to help my dad with something and he lives 15 minutes away. I tell John I'll be back and head to my father's house.

When I return from helping my dad John is in bad shape and tells me he has had a bad drug problem in the past and something is wrong and needs me to drive him to the hospital. I apologize to him and tell him I'm in no shape myself to drive him to the hospital. He then calls 911 and they send an ambulance over. I sat and waited with John, as we waited a cop came up. He says and I quote, "I heard you were at a club last night and you took some acid, do you see any bunnies running around?" I start laughing a little not being able to predict what John would say next, he replies, "No! I'm fucking looking at the grass and it's like fucking breathing!" As he says this he is down on his knees with his hands six inches apart looking at the grass making his hands go back and fourth as to mimic the breathing grass. At this point me and the cop lose it and start laughing. Now that I reminiscing it is quite a situation and sight to behold.

After John is escorted away in the ambulance I part ways with Jersey, picking up my cell and doing my best ass kissing smoothness to Jess, I tell her can I take her out to lunch as an apology. Obviously I was forgiven for being a jerk and dumb ass, and I never felt that shitty from any hangover more than that one. John was okay when I seen him on Monday but after that we stopped talking and he eventually left the company. I don't know if he was embarrassed about the whole thing or the fact that he paid for my whole experience and most of the beers, but I don't regret a thing about what I did; it was and I admitted this several times stupid, but it gave me this crazy story.....One of many.