Okay, well before I get into the really, really strange thing that happened yesterday night, it’s been a month of dedicated self-development. I have to say I feel really good about the last month. I wasn’t perfect in keeping my schedule and missed a practice session, or workout once or twice, but I’m haven’t stopped. For anyone that might be reading this that wants to turn their life around, you can make noticeable changes in just one month. You won’t become an Olympic athlete, a world renown physicist or anything like that in a month, but you can make significant strides towards your goals.
In fact, just yesterday night my friend looked at me and mentioned my face looked different. I had no idea, but I said I’d been working out and she immediately replied that you could tell. Funny thing is, we see each other often enough that I wouldn’t think you could notice a small change, hell, I didn’t even notice. But I guess it goes to show how quickly things can reverse.
Anyways. So yesterday I went out wearing two sprays of IS on my throat, two sprays of IH in my hair. My friends’ reactions was consistent with the combo, but there was a new person I hadn’t met before. I haven’t had such a strange experience in a long time. This girl really bugged out.
Things were fun and light during dinner, we drank a bit, then they all came over to my place to smoke. Anyway, one of the group was taking a long time to get to my place and I needed my after-work smoke, so I packed a bowl into my homemade bong and took a hit. A little while after that, new girl wanted to have a cigarette, took my lighter and went outside. Less than 2 minutes later, she comes back in suddenly, stating that my neighbors are weird. She wouldn’t say which neighbors, or what they did. As far as I knew, if anyone could be labeled as weird, it would be me. Every other apartment was occupied by loving, caring families, with the occasional young couple.
Anyway, she wouldn’t elaborate at all. I thought that was really weird. So I thought I might offer her a hit, since I got the vibe that she was being distant, I thought I was supposed to make a friendly gesture. She turned it down and asked me what I was smoking. I told her it was weed. She then replied with a suspicious “…and..?” I was really confused, I couldn’t imagine smoking anything but weed, I really didn’t even know what other drug she might be referring to at the time – I was that confused 
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So then she states that she really just wants to get back to her car. So it becomes painfully obvious that at some point there was a dramatic shift in her comfort level and something was really pushing her to leave. I thought she might be sick because she drank the most and she replied with a curt - I don’t get sick bro. Eh..okay, so she’s a little anxious, no big deal.
So now I’m really confused. She never seemed reluctant to come smoke weed and felt familiar enough to ask me to get her some cigarettes while I made a stop for my friend. Now all of a sudden she’s acting like there’s a bounty hunter around and she’s the prize.
During all this time I’m rolling a blunt, it’s finally finished. New girl took my lighter earlier to smoke a cigarette. On her return she didn’t put it back. So I loudly exclaimed, where’s my green lighter? I know I didn’t loose it, it never leaves my table. After asking my friends if they had lighters (which they did, they all smoke cigarettes, but I think they were holding back to see if new girl would give me back my lighter.), I said looking at the new girl, I know you all have lighters cause I y’all smoke cigs. Slowly, almost as if she wasn’t sure if she should, she took out her cigarette pack and removed the green lighter from inside. I just exclaimed, oh there it is, said thanks and brushed it off.
So we’re about to smoke a blunt now, new girl didn’t want to smoke so she just stepped outside. Not 5 minutes later she knocks on my door but doesn’t come in. We let her know it’s okay for her to come in, but I let her know that I don’t want her to stand in the doorway because the smoke would bother my neighbors. She didn’t listen for a while until I really insisted she step inside or step outside. Then she questioned what we were smoking again. I clearly told her that the only I smoke is weed. Never anything else. After that my friend thinks that it’d be a better idea for her to just bounce with the new girl, apologizes for leaving so early and leaves.
Once they left, I was bewildered. First she was pretty friendly, then all of a sudden I felt like I was a communist caught teaching Marxist philosophies to school children during the Cold War.
Later it was revealed to me that she thought my bong was for smoking crystal meth or something like that. It’s strange that she never really acknowledged my responses to her questioning, nor did she really acknowledge ever taking my lighter, using it, or even thanking me for getting her her cigarettes. I kind of felt like she was a visitor to a foreign country and my friend was her interpreter. Nothing I said really seemed to register to her, or even have any value for her, even though we all spoke fluent English. Needless to say, we’re never kicking it with her again. All in all, it made for a very strange experience. AND last time I checked I’ve got a good set of pearly whites, crystal meth smokers…do not.
Man, my head is still spinning from how off the mark that girl was, if I were to make a snap judgment, she would have been the first person I’d expect to be a meth head..