Coke - The Real Thing

I did coke only once - Halloween 1992 - and only once and never again.

I did about a line and a half and felt like I was the blessed god of the universe for about 5 hours.

Then for the next two days it felt like I'd gone to the beach - let's say a beach with an amusement park nearby. Sounds nice, doesn't it?

Except at this beach, I got severely sunburnt all over, and then I ate bad seafood and got food poisoning, and then I had to ride a slow rollercoaster in the hot sun for two days straight while everyone in the world got together and secretly planned how they would brutally and painfully murder me - laughing at me the whole time.

That's what coming down off of coke felt like to me. It was one of the worst experiences in my entire life.

If you do cocaine just once, and you start to come off of it, you realize something really quickly. You now have two options: one is to never take it again so you never have to feel that shitty again, and two is to keep doing it so you never come down again.

I chose option one. And I truly felt that with this choice I would never have to feel this particular Hell again. But this weekend, with the crap that's happening to me at my company and the TERRIBLE flight home, I now have gotten to feel this way again. I tell you, I don't want to pour out my sob-story. But I will say that between my company's recent accidental but devastating treatment of its employees and the stomach-churning turbulence on the worst flight of my life, I can now confirm that it's a horrible, awful, unspeakable feeling.

I will say this about the flight. It IS kind of funny how quickly this turned into a clichéd’ “flight from Hell” - with babies screaming their heads off, overhead compartments flying open, several passengers filling barf bags, and even a Catholic woman weeping and praying over her rosary. I am dead serious. It was truly what happened without exaggeration. And I certainly didn’t need THAT after my dealings with my company (which I still pray will pull its head out of its ass and do the right and good thing I truly know my company is capable of…)