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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

On being a cocaine user

Icing sugar anyone?


Shocked are you?  That all this creativity comes from a white powder?  Let me put your mind at ease.

I have discovered that I would make a lousy cocaine addict – I can’t even snort nose spray up my nose properly.  I have had some kind of allergy/sinus infection for weeks and weeks now.  I like to let my body fight things naturally, but its got to the point where the bug/irritant has won and I have lost.  I haven't been able to breath normally at all.  Not wanting to wait hours in a Dr's surgery with real sick people, I went along to my local drug pusher chemist.  I was given a nasal spray and some quite nice tasting medicine. 

I read the instructions carefully, (after I found my glasses, the print certainly was fine), had a little practice go of putting the nozzle up my nose, breathing all the way out and a big breath in.  Looked like an complete naff but I was in the privacy of my own kitchen. Repeat these steps, while at the same time I am to breath in, squeeze the bottle to emit a spray of liquid up my nose.  Oops, forgot to block one nostril with my finger.  Talk about multi-tasking - how would a man do all this?

The first try was a failure.  The liquid just ran back down my nose and dripped on the kitchen bench (so much for hygiene).  I guess you have to take a bigger breath in.  Tried again, I breathed back harder this time, and got a nose full, that trickled down the back of my throat and made me cough and splutter.  OK, so in between the two actions might be the way to go. 

Third try lucky.  I pretended I was a groovy chick at a upmarket party and this wasn't nasal spray but fine cocaine. I sniffed it up and waited for the rush.  Oh my giddy aunt.  I could breath, for just a minute.  Clear fresh air - is this what cocaine does for you?

A friend, who, umm, knows all about chemistry, informs me that I could just shoot cocaine direct into my veins, but where is the fun in that?  No, I want to look Kewl (yes, with a capital K) with white powder around my nose, otherwise how will the hipsters know I am one of them? 

Clearly, a seasoned user


I have also been taking this sinus relief medicine (yeah, watch out, I am one mean, on the streets, druggie) with big bold letters saying

NON DROWSY.  
Three minutes after I take it, I want to sleep the sleep of the dead. 

I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a drug addict.  Pity, I reckon I looked pretty with it! 

3 comments:

  1. So well written - great post. You sound as bad as me, 2 panadol and I am ready for a nap 30 minutes later.

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  2. LOL. I am the same. Actually a nurse told me once that I could never be a heroine addict as it was impossible to find my veins for a simple blood test.

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  3. I refused to try nasal sprays for sooo long, the very idea of snorting something up my nose makes me wrinkle it in disdain. I finally gave in one time when I wasn't allowed to take cold and flu tablets because of drug interactions with another medication. Oh god, never again. Firstly I was too scared to press it hard enough for anything to come out (and yet had managed to convince myself that I actually did press it and snort it up so well there was no trace haha) and then when I finally did get it going it felt like I had gotten water up my nose (that horrible eye watering burning sensation) for about half an hour. Yuck. No cocaine for me either!

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