Burma Jones
Greenlighter
It's been a long tedious day at work, and after sitting in gridlock traffic for a half hour, you feel like you're ready to lose it. You pull into the driveway of your rental, vault out of the car clear onto the entry-way patio, keys in hand, but shit! You can't open the door, your hands are shaking too bad, you haven't had a drink in about... who can remember? Who's counting? You need a drink, that's all that clear in your fogged brain. You fumble with the keys for what feels like a decade, and the jangling of the keys accentuates your growing anxiety. Finally! Success! You go straight to kitchen and pour yourself a stiff rum and coke. The coke's really more for show and out of habit. In any case, you toss the rum and coke down like a man who's just run a marathon, and then proceed to pour yourself another mostly rum and a hardly coke. You reflect on this, and suddenly remember something that sparks what passes for excitement these days. You've recently scored a gram of white powder that needs doing away with, and tonight is the night, you say to yourself, not knowing what the words mean, and not caring. You bring your rum and coke to your desk and break out the little glassine baggie with the powder inside. You try to open the baggie with some measure of finesse, but your hands are still trembling violently and it's not clear if it's the DT's (didn't make the first drink stiff enough, apparently), the anticipation of the powder contained within the baggie, or some admixture of the two. Just as you manage to part the seal of the glassine baggie (just like the doors to the heavenly gates opening), your hands jerk spasmodically and you fumble the entire fucking bag into your drink, and before you even have a chance to salvage it and fish it out, the bag upends itself and the contents within is submerged in mostly rum and a little coke. You curse your own ineptitude and watch helplessly as your drink hisses slightly and is transformed into a rum and coke2. You ponder how much bioavailability you must be losing as the bubbles play along the glass, and you wonder desperately what to do in order to salvage your night.
Do you:
A) Log onto bluelight and research what is the oral bioavailability of coke that is dissolved in (mostly) alcohol. Then proceed accordingly with regards to harm reduction.
B) Drink your drink and chalk it up to experience.
C) Slam it, and hope that carbonation and/or tolerance isn't an issue.
D) Plug it, and hope that carbonation and/or tolerance isn't an issue.
Do you:
A) Log onto bluelight and research what is the oral bioavailability of coke that is dissolved in (mostly) alcohol. Then proceed accordingly with regards to harm reduction.
B) Drink your drink and chalk it up to experience.
C) Slam it, and hope that carbonation and/or tolerance isn't an issue.
D) Plug it, and hope that carbonation and/or tolerance isn't an issue.