Hello. (yep, that's all I got)

This thread took a very nice turn. Thanks Jessica!

Awesome! I didn't realize they were that big.

So............I'm waiting for AAA to show up because my car won't start - probably need a new battery - and I decide to check my emails and

HOLY SHIT!!!$$$???!!!

I didn't realise I had enabled email alerts.

Reading these posts, in response to my posts, I see that it's been deduced that I am a middle-aged male who likes Billy Idol videos? Sorry, I'm not that cool.

Anyway...hello again.

This thread has been upcycled; you will have to post from now on in SpaceMunky6969's welcome thread.

Welcome back.

I guess I'll take that as a compliment, so thank you Mister Gout.

You know what else is entertaining?

Thank you Mister Tuffy.

True dat!

I remember Mtv having talk shows and game shows, they just didn't dominate the channel.

Jon Stewart had a show! It lasted maybe 5 episodes, and I don't remember what it was about, but he had bands like L7, Flaming Lips, Sebadoh playing live in the studio.

And there was a show on Sundays(technically Monday) from midnight to 2am. Nothing but alternative music; I was exposed to alot of good stuff from that. They had some really obscure indie label bands on there, which was mind-blowing for me at the time.

But then all this was before punk rock broke and Al Gore invented the interwebs and everyone and they mama had a pc and could watch YouTube vids of anything.

No idea what's on Mtv nowadays. Pregnant teenagers and those orange kids from New Jersey.

The first thing I really remember from MTV was

watching this over and over and over.

We didn't have a Tv at home, and I went to my grandparents, I was 13, and they had a tv and cable and all that. My grandma wouldn't let me watch anything but G rated movies and Tv. mister rogers and shit still, at thirteen. I would watch MTV in the family room or her bed room with my finger on the clicker (yes CLICKER, that is what we called it) waiting to change it back to PBS the second I heard her coming down the hall.

I watched Greenday playing live over and over and over. I suppose it must be in the above clip, I haven't watched it all the way through yet, but the thing I remember the most was Billy Joe working up a real big blob of spit and hucking it up above him like five feet and then catching it in his mouth.

really absurd that my grandma was trying to protect me from that as I grew up on the Dead Lot and she knew it, she had dropped me off more than once at Dead shows with my mom.

Meh???

My dad calls it a zapper.

Dayum Miss Pepper.

I think that going to Dead shows as a child would've been cool. How magical everything would seem to a child! Hippies and dreadlocks and shrooms, oh my!

Of course I'm just romanticizing it.

I think Mr. Rogers was waaay more subversive than anything Mtv could ever show, tbh. Except for those orange Jersey kids.

Hippies and dreadlocks and that guy has a spray bottle and hey guy I am five years old you should spray me oh my!

My first LSD trip.

What?!?!? You took LSD at the age of 5? On purpose? Did an adult give it to you on purpose?

An adult gave it to me on purpose. I didn't know what it was. Actually that was the second time, the first time I was a little younger and it was and accident.

He had a spray bottle of liquid lsd and was squirting people, I suppose selling it maybe just giving it away, I said spray me too! Thinking it was water and he laughed and sprayed me.

I spent half the night floating above myself.

Did your mom have a shit fit and confront the guy?

I'm really not sure, it hit me pretty much instantly and I started having a bad trip at first. Went from begging to be sprayed to freaking completely out that I had 'water' all over my face and arms. She was trying to calm me down and figure how I got wet an why it was bothering me so much, I think he just disappeared into the crowd. We didn't leave. She calmed me down and stayed for the whole show, I ran around and did cartwheels in the grass forever and floated above myself while I slept on a blanket.

I don't know why, but somehow it is depressing me to tell about this. Maybe because she didn't get upset over it, and because it wasn't the first time something like that happened, and she just carried on exposing me to that sort of lifestyle my whole growing up no matter. And now I'm a weirdo with stories that seem untrue trying to raise kids as far removed from anything abnormal as possible, but all this shit is still in my head.

I'm sorry I kept asking about it...I don't want you to feel bad. Your past is your past, and who isn't a weirdo, you know? You're a good person and most importantly you're a wonderful mother. You've got awesome kids, and they got that way because of YOU and the love and PROTECTION you provide them with.

Thanks for saying those things Alecia.

It is fine that you asked questions, I mean, I am the one who put it out there to begin with, I can't no expect inquiries about something like that.

You are the first person to ever react appropriately , I guess we could say. Most people find it funny or think it makes me interesting, instead of realising what it is is a story of a kid being drugged and its not cool.

pepper, I wrote something long here, and Issy cut off the computer, so it didn't post. I am angry about that horrible man.
(Alecia, that was really well said.)
And you want to let it rest, I understand. Thank you for sharing briefly, your memory.
Maybe it will help someone else reflect on their friends, and how much trust they should put in ideal friendship utopias. Because when people begin a family, the dynamics of life change. And the children MUST come first always.