The thing is, something like that isn't
just a pill, it's a piece of actual living history. And it's doubly problematic in that if you consider it as
just a pill, like a cat considering a £500 koi carp as
just protein, it happens to a very, very strong one. Something like that really is next to impossible to give the respect it properly deserves. Just the knowledge of what it is, a fifth of a gram of the finest methylene(3,4)-dioxy alpha-methyl phenylethylamine with a solid gold provenance, is enough to ruin your Set altogether with anxiety about your Setting.
Even if the Smiths had reformed for a one-off gig in Wythenshawe Conservative and Unionist Club with stilt-walkers and pyrotechnics, that would not necessarily have been a sufficiently prestigious occasion to warrant dropping it. Marr need only miss a single chord change, or Morrissey forget the words and give his best Mark Chadwick impression (in the
I would go out tonight, la la la-la la la laa la la-aa sense, as opposed to the huge plate of definitely-not-soya ham sandwiches sense) and the entire performance would be ruined.
Then the effects of the drug begin to wear off. Then the effects of the drug wearing off begin to wear off. And all that remains is a lingering disappointment and regret; of which you will be forever reminded, anytime an occasion should arise when taking a similar pill might appear to be a good idea.
Freewheelin' Franklin said:
DOPE will get you through times of no MONEY better than MONEY will get you through times of no DOPE
So that goes tenfold, if you were stashless at the time.
If you can't use the pill, then, you could get rid of it. But how? Any scheme for its destruction will ultimately disappoint at least as surely as actually taking it. The perfect occasion will arise on which you could have taken the pill and done it proper justice ..... instead of just firing it from a cannon into the middle of the ocean at the stroke of midnight on New Year,
quelle gaspillage.
And even if you were just to stash the pill away, or even donate it to a museum for its glory to be more widely appreciated, you will experience occasions which, in hindsight, will turn out to have been the perfect time to have taken it, had you only known in advance.
You simply cannot win, no matter what you do with it. It's functionally equivalent to a real-life curse; no possible good can come of being around it.
Probably the best thing to have done with it would have been to pass it on to the first mug that came within selling distance ..... but hey, whatever happens now, you are condemned to spend the whole of the rest of your life just noticing better things you could have done with it. Please don't think for one minute that I'm saying I think you
deserve any of it, because I don't think
anybody deserves that for anything; but it's what you're going to
get.
. I have no weed either, so warm cups of sugary tea and a bath it is!
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