cool story
any other experiences like mine?
Actually yes. Now that you have me reminiscing:
When I was 17 I went hitch-hiking through the country. After about two weeks I was heading home. That leg of the journey I couldn't catch a ride, so I took a bus. The bus went on a ferry.
On that ferry I meet a girl and her two parents. I noticed how her nails were all bitten down and her fingers burnt.
Her mother was schitzo (not a joke, literally). Her dad was on the lamb.
I meet her parents right there and they invited me to their home once we got to the other side of the bay. We talked and hit it off. She mentioned how her last boyfriend lived cooped up in their house for 6 months and then one day just took off.
When I got to her house, I realized all 3 (mother, father and daughter who I was hitting on) were all crack heads. I'll never forget them arguing as to whose pipe was whose, and that no, I just made that one and what not.
They invited me to smoke. I had never smoked rocks, but I figured, what the hell you only live once. So I went on a binge that day. At the end of the day, as I was getting ready to leave, still jittery from the smoke-out, they offered if I wanted to stay.
Have you all seen the episode of the Simpsons where homer sees the family as demons that chant 'there is room for one more'. Yeah, that is how I felt.
Anyway, I felt that was not the life I wanted, so I left. But I know if I would have stayed, I might still be smoking to this day.
BTW, I was the child of an alcoholic parent, so I was never given much of an opportunity to be a pussy like you.
I will say, after my insane teenage years, I eventually settled down and my life has been relatively boring since. But boy do I have stories, scars and bones that still hurt when it is cold from when I was your age.