got a job

 

there is an equivalent to a seven eleven on Sydney Road and the guy behind the counter, you can tell he is an ice addict. He is on the public telephone near the entrance at least five times I am there and all I want is change for the laundromat. The last call gets an answer and the constant question he asks - where have you been?

I hand over a twenty and all I want is ten dollars in change. He gives me twenty dollars in change. The transaction has ended and he is back on the telephone. Maybe investigating and expanding his options.

so here is a dilemma. Blind Freddy could tell this person is speeding off his tree and I wish him all the best because he is gainfully employed, but to what degree? He is obviously chasing scores on the job. 

now I am curious but not so much to take it, but what is the difference between ice and speed, as I knew it all those years ago? Maybe occasionally, every six months at best I would take speed to enable me to drink more alcohol with a good friend of mine. It wasn't a drug unto itself. One detracting factor was the next day where I would sweat this black ooze out of my pores and it smelt weird.

the overall experience was one of novelty but at the same time was terrifying. What if I got the taste for this? Thinking of now, what if I got the taste for what they are peddling now? Surely, It must be far more potent than the drugs of old. Working for the courts, I have seen the results of this drug in action. The apprehended violence orders in regional Victoria alone, it must be far more potent than the drug I knew.

I once worked down at the court in Geelong for six weeks in the basement. Every day the same woman let me in through the door next to the front counter. I couldn't help noticing the amount of people applying for apprehended violence orders. There was a large pad of orders - one order per page. It looked at least three hundred pages thick. When I started they had started with a new pad that day. On the last day they torn the last page off the pad. I remarked to the woman who let me in, you have issued that many apprehended violence orders in the time I've been here?

she pointed across the counter, "There's three pads."