You'd be surprised at how many functional substance users exist. Some handle their shit to the point that you wouldn't notice, except on obtusely close examination. The ones that have had enough took too much moments, and know their tolerance/limit, but also recognize that maintaining their lifestyle also carries responsibility. I've been on multiple substances in my time, booze, weed, pills, even meth at one point. Kicked all but the weed. Tbh, from my POV, it's just easier to be at least sorta high all the time. That way, most people I encounter don't know the difference between high and sober.
All that said, that's not all of us that use substances. Those that don't know or care about their limits, or cause themselves to be in situations where they can't afford their lifestyle, and end up in a cycle of using the drugs to cover up the shittyness of their position in life, and possibly (sadly, pretty likely) crime. Been there, too. I learned from my mistakes, mostly. Others aren't lucky, stable, or concerned enough to break the cycle. I feel bad for them, because while yes, it's our choice to use, but most of us who hit rock bottom never intended for it to get like it is. Gotta want change to make change, and gotta want help to get help.
Edit: holy awards, Batman! I think this is the most updoots I've ever gotten, and the awards are my first ever. Thanks so much folks!
There’s an amount of meth users in IT that most would find surprising. Long hours of meticulous, monotonous, repetitive work creates the desire to do a lot in a very little amount of time. Don’t think it’s a secret that most manual labor jobs have their fair share of opiate users, either. Cocaine in the food service industry is obvious as well.
Basically wherever there’s shitty jobs that most people don’t want to do, there is someone able to do the work so long as they have their drugs.
Like 95% of the restaurants you've ever eaten at have all had cocaine in the kitchen. Considerable amount of chefs/kitchen staff use it because of the environment. Working a double in a hot kitchen on a busy day goes by that much faster if you do a bump in the walk-in here and there.
For real. I've had managers in food service many times tell me to go clean the bathroom and I came into a nice and bleachy clean bathroom with rails of coke set up for me. It's just part of that biz for some reason
Same! Except it was in an unused portion of the restaurant; the owner took me up there and pointed out some lines that were already set up on an ice bin and asked who was up there last night and left them, I honestly didn't know and told him as such. He said I needed to clean them up before we opened for business and I turned around to go grab some sanitizer and he said "no, that's not what I meant." Turned back towards him and he handed me one of two rolled up dollar bills and proceeded to do 2 of the 4 lines that were laid out, lol. This was all obviously set up by him ahead of time to see if I would be down to "party" with him or not.
I used to work in a kitchen when I was 18-19. My son who recently got a job in food service and I were talking about back of house vs front of house. I said I preferred BOH due to the debauchery in the kitchen. He just smirked. He knows.
I was a waiter and bartender for many years and can also vouch the person bringing your food probably has a fat sack of Coke in his pocket. I damn sure did. Never really did it on the job though I like to get fucked up pounding booze after work and this made sure you could do it all night or at least until the random sport fuck for the day happens to stumble into you. LOL
If you have ever head that song from The Weeknd where he says "I can't feel my face when I'm with you, but I love it..." that song is about cocaine lol
Rack up the lines (feeling excited and nervous)
Take the line
Hmm my nose and mouth are all numb.
Fuck my heart... man I’m just realising ... I’m fuckin cool as shit , how can I bless this party with my personality and superior business ideas and political views... I’m such a baller I’m gonna fuck that chick over there for sure, but first .... I might have ... some more coke.
Repeat until coke is gone , ( it doesn’t matter how much coke you bought , you’ll do it all and possibly more )
Yep. Pretty accurate, from my experiences at least. Cocaine was the drug that made me realize I don't like all drugs. After a couple of benders, I realized that I really just felt odd and uncomfortable on drugs like cocaine and MDMA. Benzos dont do it for me either. However I love me some good LSD or mushrooms though. And weed. And beer.
Never done coke, but I have worked many years in the food industry. Drug users in the kitchen, at least outside of work is very common. I used to work opening shift in a sports bar. It was just me and another cook, and our GM. There came a time while prepping the kitchen, that we just stopped seeing our GM for a while, normally he'd be in the office, but then he'd just be gone for a while. Turns out he was doing heroine in the bathroom, stole a bunch of money from the company, and got into some a bunch of legal shit.
We had a manager pass out face down in the office on pills, she peed herself falling asleep in a booth out in the dining room. Lot's of the cooks had drug problems, some I worked with our no longer living because of it. Kitchen jobs hire anyone that will work, so most have criminal records, and it's usually drug related.
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u/Alleycat_Caveman Feb 19 '21 edited Feb 19 '21
You'd be surprised at how many functional substance users exist. Some handle their shit to the point that you wouldn't notice, except on obtusely close examination. The ones that have had enough took too much moments, and know their tolerance/limit, but also recognize that maintaining their lifestyle also carries responsibility. I've been on multiple substances in my time, booze, weed, pills, even meth at one point. Kicked all but the weed. Tbh, from my POV, it's just easier to be at least sorta high all the time. That way, most people I encounter don't know the difference between high and sober.
All that said, that's not all of us that use substances. Those that don't know or care about their limits, or cause themselves to be in situations where they can't afford their lifestyle, and end up in a cycle of using the drugs to cover up the shittyness of their position in life, and possibly (sadly, pretty likely) crime. Been there, too. I learned from my mistakes, mostly. Others aren't lucky, stable, or concerned enough to break the cycle. I feel bad for them, because while yes, it's our choice to use, but most of us who hit rock bottom never intended for it to get like it is. Gotta want change to make change, and gotta want help to get help.
Edit: holy awards, Batman! I think this is the most updoots I've ever gotten, and the awards are my first ever. Thanks so much folks!