Wednesday, January 19, 2011

D.dope monkey/F.W.dope junky (Restless Small Town Pigs, Make for Restless Small Town Dope Monkeys)

The last episode I wrote about resulted in the cops apprehending us skipping school. "What are ya'll doing out there in that field," I remember them asking us. We simply made up some bullshit explanation about how we were out there fishing at the stock pond.  "Where are y'alls fishing poles," they returned. That stumped us, but it really didn't make much of a difference. We had ample time to stash the weed under some brush as soon as we had realized that they had arrived off in the distance by our parked vehicles.  We walked across the field, back towards them and our cars, meeting them as far away from the initial 'scene' where we had been smokin' weed.  They made a feeble attempt to go and wander around a bit in the field searching for any tossed 'dope', but their energies were wasted in vain having not found what they were searching for. They talked to us for awhile and searched our pockets and cars. They did not find any drugs that they seemed to always assume we had in our possession, 24/7.  They didn't issue us truancy tickets, but they did notify the principals that we were skipping class that day. Ultimately we had to serve a few detentions. All of us got known very quickly by the small town cops, so from then on we readily assumed that whenever stopped we had damn well better be prepared for a search. I would get pulled over frequently in Keller as a teenager and be immediately asked very bluntly, "Are there any dope or guns in the vehicle," and I always replied, "no sir," trying to muster up a respectable tone while thinking guns?  What the fuck, I was thought, I may be guilty of carrying drugs but guns? Really? I definitely deserved a mass majority of the treatment I received as a teenager by the local officials, but these cops, as with any small town cops, really did have way to much time on their hands. My pill thievery from the pharmacy I had been working at during the first month of my junior year was growing more and more reckless, and I was about to have some major consequences reign down upon me. I would be arrested on my first of the three felonies a week later. All three were accumulated before the age of twenty-four.