Sunday, April 11, 2010

normal encounter

the other day i had just a normal, daily encounter with some normal, average teenage boys.

it all started around 5:11 pm when lacey and i went to this quaint little liquor store in Montgomery, AL in a cute neighborhood (also known as "the gump"- for reasons i will never understand nor can anyone quite explain). 

just so everyone understands, i am being sarcastic.

but nonetheless, here we were, pulling into the parking lot when this guy opens his car door almost straight into lacey's car and she swings into a parking spot.  he apologizes and his friend jumps out of the back seat.

quick overview of the boys: boy driving= a good 250 lbs, shaved head, very pale, freckly... boy in the back seat= looks 15, has both ears pierced, maybe 100 lbs, also pale, also shaved head.

they proceed to ask lacey if she will purchase them a gram or so of salvia. 

for those of you who don't know what this is, let urban dictionary help!

salviaDepending on dosage, the Salvia experience can vary from a subtle, just-off-baseline state to a full-blown psychedelic experience. At higher doses users report dramatic time distortion, vivid imagery, encounters with beings, travel to other places, planets or times, living years as the paint on a wall or experiencing the full life of another individual. 

lacey takes their money and says she'll try her best.  this is when i notice who is in the passenger seat. an old woman. probably their mother. looks legit crazy.

THIS is when i get a little nerv. as in nervous.

why can't they buy their own salvia? or get this woman, who is obviously not protesting to her sons or whatever-relation-they-were buying a psychedelic drug.

they turn and talk to me. this was our conversation.

fat boy: hey, whats up.
me: nothing.
fat boy: i'm old enough to buy you know, i'm just not allowed back in that store.
me: *nervous laugh* oh. really. why?
fat boy: it's a long story.
skinny boy: where do you go to school?
me: alabama.. what about yall?
fat boy: oh, we graduated.
(obviously they are talking about high school because they acted shocked when i said i went to alabama)
me: cool.

this is when i guess they get the hint that i am not interested in talking to them and turn to talk to one another.

skinny boy: there's cops everywhere. i wonder if they already locked robby up.
fat boy: *laughing* oh yeah, didn't he shoot that dumb ass cop?

i want to roll up my window and get the fuck out of there.

skinny boy back to me: what are you doing tonight?
me: going to auburn. what about yall?
skinny boy: trippin BALLS hopefully.
old woman: *still looks sedated, possibly dead, no response to the boys blatant drug use*
fat boy: hell yeah dude.

lacey (thank god): hey sorry she said they were sold out, here's your money.
both boys: *look like they may jump her*
fat boy: whatever. thanks for trying i guess.

they peel off.

and i have never been so happy to still be alive.

2 comments:

  1. i can't believe you spent your time blogging this. only you sarah... only you. :)

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