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| The squid Interviews (Zone 7 Smoking Section) | |
| By GILLY | ||
| 04 December 2006 | ||
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I've put this down as extended work because I am working on compiling many short type stories/pieces for a book during these last few years. Some of the events as this one is a basic real conversation, and others as time goes on are only in the begining of actual events. I haven't decided what shall stay in.I've removed a few choice words in case our 14 year old is reading,( as well as my mother) as has been advised. However,Nothing is really that graphic. Gilly The Squid Interviews (Zone 7 Smoking Section) Paulo and I were at the smoke section. He’s much happier since he went back to smoking. I had on my garden gloves,(the cheap ones) to cut on the chill. I brought a bag of microwave popcorn too. I’m basically a non smoker you see. My ungloved had was grabbing choice pieces, munching happily. “You know, I don’t need to smoke dope anymore,” I said, “ I mean I recently noticed how I miss having it though after all of these years. I always missed having it the way we used to smoke it. I first remember being around hippies at a dinner table.” “Yeah,Right, I know what you mean Eric,”It’s really a social thing. You’d get together with friends, and someone would have a new bong to try out and you’d each comment on it.” Yeah, right, and like today at the caravan, the trailer where I get a few hours rest, I scrubbed the outside with this huge bucket of soapy water I had prepared. After I finished I smoked the remainder of this ole stogie in the trailer. It brought back all the memories of smoking dope, or even smoking cigars. I mean really good ones. I’m not sure if it is the idea of smoking really good cigars because they are good, or just so you can say, and know you just smoked a really good one.” “Well, ya know,” Paulo started; “ the thing about cigars, smoking cigars is also a very social thing too. You look at them and smell them, not like popping in a pre-rolled cigarette.” “Yeah,” I said,” like drinking wine.” “Or,” he added, “just lthink how it is with a case of beer on the table with my sailor buddies. When we squids would get together it was like that, it’s only functional, but that’s all it is. You lose that social aspect.” “Right,” I said,” So I smoke pretty nice ones these days and smoke them about as often as I used to smoke dope, when I was a kid, which really wasn’t very often don’t ya know. I’m even able to get myself in the same frame of mind when I used to get high. I can remember Marisa had me over for dinner at the home she was living in. I went to High School with this girl. Her mother had recently died and she was staying at Gene’s Knutson’s house. His mother had sort of adopted her. I think Gene and Marisa’s mothers had been pretty close she agreed to be her guardian until Marisa finished High School. Anyway, Gene’s mother was pretty cool, (in my teenage view point). Her friends were over and a joint was passed around after dinner. I think I may have had my first sexual experience that night too. It was defiantly the high point of the date, but to be fair, maybe it was only because I was 17, but if I’m really honest the high point was passing the roach around using my fork as a clip.” I paused for a second, and realized something and said,” You know Paulo, you are so right! It is the social aspects that I love, that we love. It’s what we crave. Like the conversation after sex. That’s what they used to say to me when I was in the in Friedburg Germany. ‘Eric!’ they’d say, ‘Eric, would have sex with anybody, and I mean anybody just so he’d have the conversation after afterwards.’ ‘We’ll maybe not anyone,’ I’d say.” Paulo laughed, “That reminds me of all the times when we squids would get so trashed, and lets face it, the memory is always better.”
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