Smackhead
Trainspotting (the movie) came out when I was in my first year at uni. As it was the embodiment of cool, EVERYONE had to see it, and then you'd all come back and talk about how scary and life-affirming it was whilst getting slowly out of your box on weed.

On one occassion I was sitting in my mate's room (I'd known him for all of a few months) talking about the film when he said:

"Well it was a serious wake up call to me, cos I used to be a smack head"

I gulped. I'd never been in the presence of a serious drug user, and since smack scared the shit out of me, I really didn't know what to say.
We eventually became best buds, and he still is to this day, despite the fact that one night when we were sharing a flat a few years later we were watching a documentary about smackheads.

"You gotta be fucking nuts to get into that shit"
"Well, you'd know"
"what d'you mean?"
"Well, you used to be a user, didn't you"

He looked a bit puzzled.

Turned out he'd been messing about, and apparently I was the only person in the room that night that hadn't realised.

What a cunt
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 8:35, Reply)