Bill Cammack

Back in the day… I was hanging out at a carnival in Revere, Massachusetts, USA, and we were kicking it to these chicks, and this girl’s friend tried to cockblock her by saying “She just got out of detox! :D”. I figured she was kidding, but it turned out that she wasn’t. The chick really HAD been in detox/rehab/whatever. Unfortunately, the block didn’t work, because the chick was cute/hawt, and you know how THAT goes! :D

That’s not the type of detox I’m talking about. It’s more of a mental/psychological state than a spot where they try to get you to kick whatever form of high you’re into.

I didn’t drink at all until I got to college. I know that doesn’t seem like an achievement, hahaha :D It’s like Chris Rock said… Don’t brag about taking care of your kids… You’re SUPPOSED TO take care of your kids! :D

I think the drinking age in the USA is 21. Meanwhile… In reality… I knew kids that were getting drunk when we were in JHS… around 15 years old. Raiding parents’ liquor cabinets (my parents didn’t/don’t drink, so there was no liquor for me to raid, personally)… Knowing where to go to buy alcohol around the way with no questions asked… If you know where “the bootleg” is, you can get, like, VODKA from stores that probably aren’t even licensed to sell it… and that’s @ 3am. So, as a NYC kid, everything’s available to us, all the time. If you have the money, SOMEBODY has what you want… Alcohol, Chicks, Whatever.

So that’s why I say I never drank until college. College starts (for most people) at 18 and ends around 21, so, technically, you’re not supposed to have had a drink until you were like a senior in college… BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, Right. :D

The “detox” I’m talking about is bringing your system back to some sort of stability after drinking a whole hell of a lot of alcohol. The reason I felt like blogging about this is that today, for the second time in about a month, I got ‘cheated’ out of my detox time, and I’ve been feeling poorly all day. The people that I think might find this interesting are the ones who didn’t know anything about drinking, like *I* didn’t before I started.

There are a few stages to drinking. For the purposes of this post, let’s call them (in chronological order):

Not Drunk
Not Drunk Yet
Drunk
Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier
Not Drunk

Most of these stages are fine. :) We can eliminate the bookends by saying that if you’re Not Drunk, that has nothing to do with this post.

Not Drunk Yet isn’t bad either. It’s like being on a lame Roller Coaster, and you know you’re going up, but it’s a slight incline. You always feel “better” as the time goes by. You’re on your way to Drunk.

Drunk is always cool if you’re into that sort of thing. Everything’s Light & Breezy! :D

The only thing that’s left is the worst state of all, hahaha… Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier. Horrible. Don’t want to be there… or even think BACK… I don’t want to be there… Now I’m on the right track… Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! – Ace Frehley – “Hard Times”

When I recall… Days in The City…
And I think back… Oh what a pity…
Remembering How… It wasn’t pretty…
Everyday Life in The City…

Out in the Street
We had to Take it
With friends around
We couldn’t Fake it
What wasn’t there
We had to Make it
Hangn’ out Down in The CITY!

The Hard Times
Are Dead And Gone
But The Hard Times
Have Made Me Strong
And The Hard Times
Have Made Me See
That The Hard Times
Ain’t Where I Wanna BEEEEE!!!!

Anyway… Not As Drunk As I Was Earlier is the worst! :D ……….

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More another time… I’m out to another event! :D

PS – Happy Birthday to Liz Burr & Tyme White! :D

… continued in Detox [Part 2]…

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