JTemperance
Bluelight Crew
Close to 2:00a.m. last Friday, I was wandering the aisles of a 24hr supermarket. After I'd finished studying the Easter displays, I was strolling down the candy aisle, when I noticed a hanging display with small bags of Pixie Sticks; or rather, Pixy Stix® – the original name-brand product of yesteryear, seemingly unchanged – something I hadn't seen, or thought about, in quite a while.
I was reminded of how kids used to snort (or try to snort) Pixy Stix, pretending the colored sugar-powder inside was cocaine. . . I asked my wife if she'd ever done that as a kid (which she hadn't) and over the course of our conversation, I remembered other "drug pretending" things I did as a kid.
Snorting the Pixy Stix was kind of a dumb thing done with friends. By myself, when I was 8 or 9 (IIRC), I used to rip off a piece of lined paper & roll it up, pretending it was a cigarette (or later, a joint), coloring one end with pencil for "ash," sucking on the other end for a "drag," etc. I also used to swallow candies like Mike & Ike or Good & Plenty, pretending they were uppers/downers.
This one's embarrassing, but. . . When I was around 12 or 13, I used to pretend to "shoot up" with heroin, using a mechanical pencil (of all things) as my "syringe." I'd put the pencil tip in the crook of my arm, push the eraser/clicker to get the pencil lead to prick my skin, and then... I don't know: sit at the desk alone & pretend to be high?
Before last week, I'd totally forgotten that I ever did that, but the Pixy Stix somehow jogged my memory. In reality, I think it's something I engaged in pretty frequently while doing my homework for a couple of years. . . in retrospect, perhaps that wasn't such a great omen?
The movie adaptation of The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was released around the time I was pretending to IV. I didn't see the movie then, but I'm pretty sure I read the novel over a few afternoons in Borders since it'd been re-released ("Now a major motion picture!"). That's one place I could've gotten ideas of IV heroin. I also read Junkie pretty young, no later than 14.
So, did anybody else pretend to use drugs (or alcohol) as a kid? Or am I the only one?
I was reminded of how kids used to snort (or try to snort) Pixy Stix, pretending the colored sugar-powder inside was cocaine. . . I asked my wife if she'd ever done that as a kid (which she hadn't) and over the course of our conversation, I remembered other "drug pretending" things I did as a kid.
Snorting the Pixy Stix was kind of a dumb thing done with friends. By myself, when I was 8 or 9 (IIRC), I used to rip off a piece of lined paper & roll it up, pretending it was a cigarette (or later, a joint), coloring one end with pencil for "ash," sucking on the other end for a "drag," etc. I also used to swallow candies like Mike & Ike or Good & Plenty, pretending they were uppers/downers.
This one's embarrassing, but. . . When I was around 12 or 13, I used to pretend to "shoot up" with heroin, using a mechanical pencil (of all things) as my "syringe." I'd put the pencil tip in the crook of my arm, push the eraser/clicker to get the pencil lead to prick my skin, and then... I don't know: sit at the desk alone & pretend to be high?
Before last week, I'd totally forgotten that I ever did that, but the Pixy Stix somehow jogged my memory. In reality, I think it's something I engaged in pretty frequently while doing my homework for a couple of years. . . in retrospect, perhaps that wasn't such a great omen?
The movie adaptation of The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was released around the time I was pretending to IV. I didn't see the movie then, but I'm pretty sure I read the novel over a few afternoons in Borders since it'd been re-released ("Now a major motion picture!"). That's one place I could've gotten ideas of IV heroin. I also read Junkie pretty young, no later than 14.
So, did anybody else pretend to use drugs (or alcohol) as a kid? Or am I the only one?
Last edited: