I was a junior in high school and woke up feeling under the weather, so I asked my grandmother for some Aleve. She brought me two, I took them, and drove to school, which was a five minute drive. Forty five blacked out minutes later, I walk in to my first period 30 minutes late, and am horrified to find a massive fake spider web in the doorway, fake spiders and all. I make a huge scene as I tear it down. I then calmly walk to my desk, have a seat and obnoxiously ask the guy next to me what I'd missed. I'm feeling pretty off right now, but couldn't quite tell what it was -- Was I getting really sick or something?
Before I could even comprehend that it was a lab day, everyone was already in groups and working. I don't remember the details, but we were mixing chemicals with an eye dropper, onto a grid/table, like in battleship, so essentially we mixed chemical A with chemical 1-12, chemical B with 1-12, etc.
Me, though... Nope. Fuck that eye dropper. I sat down in a group that hadn't done much, opened two bottles and poured that shit together. Apparently that mixture caused a burn... Straight through the table we were at.
*black out until the last 5 minutes of class*
I notice there is a paper we needed to fill out while doing the lab. I very loudly proclaim "Wait, there's a paper? SHIT, I need to copy you." and continued to repeat that I needed to copy off of some dude, all while the teacher stared at me.
I leave the classroom, bump into (literally) some friends in the hall, who tell me that I am very clearly extremely fucked up. I explained that I felt sick, which made the two stoner girls I was talking to laugh.
I start stumbling down into a different hallway to get to my second class. Apparently I very passionately hug a teacher (To this day I still don't know who it was...), was falling over onto lockers... I basically looked like I was completely shitfaced.
I walk into my english room which was at the end of the fucking hall, and the police liaison officer grabbed me by my backpack, and asked "Where are you going, buddy?"
And in the most slurred voice your mind can read this in, I say "I'm... I'm going to ENGLISH!", to which the officer simply said "Nope. No you're not." and escorted me to the principals office.
They ask me what I took. I said Aleve. They ask what I took before the Aleve. Nothing. After the Aleve? Nothing. WITH the Aleve? Nothing!
They ask if I have any drugs in my backpack, to which I had to confess I did in fact have an advil in a tin container. Unfortunately, I did not have an advil. I had a tin container that had the inside coated with a white powder (Just shit that had rubbed off from other pills in it).... But that's not quite what it looked like.
They read through my notes and see that I mentioned a caffeine pill to a friend. When they asked if I had taken caffeine pills, I scoffed and slurred "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I'D BE LIKE THIS FROM A CAFFEINE PILL?" which must have made sense to them, because they dropped it.
They call my grandmother, and she's appalled that her young, well-behaved grandson is higher than a giraffes vagina *while in school*. She says she'll be over to pick me up in a few minutes.
Five minutes later, my grandma calls back. She had just returned from Italy, and carries a large pill box filled with a fucking at-home pharmacy. Painkillers? Got it. Even the good ones. Anxiety? This Valium will fix that right up. Depressed? Take this shit for a while. Allergies? Here, try these. You name it, she's got it. Fucking old people.
She realised that during her flight, one of the separating walls in the pill box had broken, mixing painkillers with sleeping pills. Aleve is an oval blue pill that says "Aleve" on the pill. Ambien 30mg XR is the same size, shape and colour, and has an "A" on it... Easy mistake, I guess, but I'll be damned if I don't google the shit out of any pill she gives me now.
So my 16 year old self had taken 60 fucking mgs of Ambien XR, and gone to school. She got there, explained it all away, saving my ass totally. They took the handcuffs off of me, and let me stumble out of the room and fall into her car. I slept for nearly 20 hours.
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