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Once upon a time there lived a young girl, around the age of 15, who lived in a far away land called Boredomton. Now this young sweet tender hearted girl had found herself on a path that wasn’t nearly as sweet as her soul, and she began to spend time with bad people doing bad things.
Sweet girls who want love and acceptance tend to do stuff like that, you know. Don’t judge.
Anyway, many times this girl and her friends liked to go out and make their sadness, confusion, insecurities, and whatnot disappear by finding ways to alter their minds.
Sweet girls also do that when they aren’t feeling heard or cared about. Or when they just have a really stubborn and rebellious streak. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying, it happens. Again don’t judge.
But one night, among the Independence Day fireworks, this group of friends realized that the things they usually turned to were not available. And they wondered…what were they to do to have fun? Because living in a land called Boredomton, you can imagine, fun was not readily available.
And so this sweet young girl and her equally sweet best friend found themselves being offered something they considered second best to the “natural” mind alterers they normally used. Well, not really, since to be honest they didn’t even know exactly what they were taking…but the bad witches dressed up like friends, told them it was second best, and the innocent best friends didn’t know otherwise.
12 caffeine pills later, fun was being had. All the friends, and the witches dressed up like friends, and the two sweet beautiful innocent girls began to run all over the land. This way and that, to and fro…back and forth, up and down. They were having so much fun, that is, until the spell of the pills began to wear off.
And the good girls and the bad friends began to feel not so good, and very quickly it became not so fun. The sweetest girl of them all, decided to take a bath, because she had been told baths make everything better. Yet, when she looked in the mirror mirror on the wall…there were three of the fairest faces of them all staring back at her.
And then the puking began. And it came and it came and it came, and it would not stop. All of the evil ones who had pretended to be friends and the witches quickly left when they realized what they had done to the sweetest girls in the land.
The best friend came to be by the sick girls side, and together they made a pact not to tell a single soul what they had done. No. Matter. What.
When the best friends parents awoke to what sounded of dry heaves and death, they quickly gathered the two incredibly sweet and scared girls and rushed them to the ER.
And the sweetest girl of all continued to dry heave and puke all the live long way.
At once she was rushed into the hospital, into the room, and quickly hooked up to heart monitors while they began running test after test. And the sweet naive and dishonest girl, continued to cry and throw up and convulsively shake, and hold to the story that she was just. simply. sick.
That is, until the honest best friend began to throw up in the waiting room and fearing death, began to spill the events of the night, confessing to all of the caffeine pills taken since “natural” drugs were not available to said sweet perfect girls.
And the doctors came in to my, I mean, into the sweetest girls room and began to glare at her. All the while she continued to shake and shiver and dry heave. And she was sure her life would end. Only she was soon to find that the little energy pills were already well into her system and there was nothing they could do but allow the consequences to work themselves out….for another 12 hours.
And because God must reward honesty rather than HOLDING TO THE PACT!, the best friend was able to drink chalk, poop it out, and go home and sleep for 12 hours in her cozy bed. While back in the ER, the sweetest saddest girl of Boredomton was not able to sleep, poop, eat, or stop dry heaving while in the midst of convulsions.
And the next day, her fairest father came to pick her up to drive her home, but only after she spent a good hour with the social worker convincing her that, no she was not trying to end her life…she was simply doing what teenagers in a town called Boredomton do. Take things, do things, and then live to regret things.
Only when the social worker deemed her sweet and innocent and stupid, did she release her, and then the fairest father of the fairest daughter took her home.
And he said, “You are not in trouble. You paid your dues these last 12 hours, and I hope you learned your lesson.”
And she did.
She never ever took caffeine pills again. And eventually she moved far far away from the land of Boredomton.
This may or may not be a true story, but know that if it was a true story, you could learn a lesson that drugs are bad and they can quite possibly be a gateway to caffeine pills. And as two sweet girls learned…those are bad too.
© 2009 “Le Musings of Moi”
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OMG My stomach hurt just reading that! I hate barfing!
You’re lucky. Someday I’ll have to tell you what happened to L. (A hint: she is extremely sensitive to caffeine and decided to drink a cup of coffee. Two days later she got out of the ICU.)
People often forget how potent a drug caffeine really is.
SUUUCCCKSSS.
Is it awful that the whole time I was reading this I had that episode of Saved By The Bell in my head? “I’m sooooo excited, I’m sooo excited… I’m soooo scared!”
Great entry. An interesting tale of two sweet girls and a good lesson learned. What an experience they both had. Never had an experience quite like that, but close enough. Learned my lessons, and moved on. Have a wonderful day and take care.
-Kiki
Isn’t it crazy the stuff we will do when we are bored and just want to have fun? Been there. done that. got the tie dyed tshirt 🙂 Thanks for sharing. I just hope our kids are “too cool” for that kind of stuff 🙂
Gotta love those lessons learned the hard way!
Wow, that’s a crazy story Summer. Thanks for sharing it…even though it may not have happened to someone who may or may not have been you, it’s a good story to share!
Oh my gosh. What a hard lesson to learn. It’s sorta like the little boy that smoked a ciggy and his father made him eat one to show him how bad it really is…
Have a great day!
So glad the sweet girl learned her lesson. Like the sweet girl, I too ended up in the hospital because of stupid stuff but ended up there 5 days. Lesson learned here too.
Well written. Do you suppose that girl ever has drinks with caffine or did she go off the stuff completely?
Personally I like caffine. I have 1/2 can of Dr. Pepper before I go run. Mmmmmm . . .
That is quite a story. I’m glad the sweetest girl ended up being alright. It must have been terrifying.
Ouch.
And this…
“This may or may not be a true story, but know that if it was a true story, you could learn a lesson that drugs are bad and they can quite possibly be a gateway to caffeine pills. And as two sweet girls learned…those are bad too.”
That part almost made me lose it.
Great post.
Makes me wonder if the sweetest girl has any aversion to coffee?
I can not confirm or deny that i may or may not have known a girl very similar to one of which you write
Ah yes, I grew up in Boredomton too and for some reason caffeine pills brought back vivid memories that were not so pleasant.
Great post, must have been a scary experience. I may or may not have once taken a couple caffeine pills at school and had to call my mom to come get me because I felt like I was going to die.
great way to tell the story! I had no ideas caffeine pills could cause such a reaction. But I guess 12 of anything would.
ugh, this is the sort of stupid (and potentially deadly) stuff that i wish i could just TELL my kids not to do and they would just not do it. i don’t want them to learn the hard way. i think you are right, though, the key is to keep kids active and busy, so they don’t get bored.
Great post!! I thank my lucky stars everyday that becasue of all of the stupid stuff I “ate” that I did not end up in the ER!!
Lucky girl it all turned out well.
this was like de-ja-vu….minus the hospital part. I knew a girl who lived in this town too.
A valuable fable… well-written! Thanks for sharing, Summer!
~ Jen
I’m amazed that you survived so many caffeine pills. Even one or two makes me so sick (my heart does funny things and I faint) that I can’t take them at all. I hope that my kids don’t get bored and do stupid things!!!
Clearly the sweetest girl was not a fan of Saved by the Bell, because if she was she would have seen the episode where Jessie got addicted to caffeine pills and would have learned that they were bad news… bears.
I learned a lot from that show. Like how all the cool kids could freeze time and talked on huge walkie-talkies, aka cell phones.
Good thing that sweet young girl turned out to be a still sweet smart young woman!
Ahhhh, poor you. I don’t think i could ever stand getting sick for that long. Reading your story along made my throat dry. There’s always a lesson to learn, huh
This is funny, sad, meaningful, and the work of an amazing writer! Glad the sweetest girl is alright. 🙂
What a terrifying, but witty story. I’m glad you survived to spread your “say no to drugs” campaign 🙂
It takes moments like that to realize it’s not always so fun to try to chemically happy up your life. Not that I know first hand or anything. ;o)
As a parent and former social worker I really enjoyed reading this!!!
Lessons lived, lessons learned… Let’s hope our kids can learn to distinguish friends from wishes. Or perhaps I need to move to a more exciting part of town…
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OH! That poor poor sweet girl!! Whatever happened to the two witch girls? Did they get sick too?
Such a shame.
I’m glad the sweet girl grew up a bit.
Very well written post. I think you should turn it into a children’s book with illustrations or maybe a “young adults” book.
I once knew of a certain college student who overdid it with caffeine pills the night before she had to give a lecture and ended up standing in front of the class with nothing to say. I had to, I mean she had to say, “Could someone please ask me a question because I have no idea where to start?”
Oh my… caffeine’s bad, mmmk? 🙂
Caffeine pills? Really? Who knew. That must be why I stuck to the illegal stuff.
Oh wow, I’m glad the sweetest girl in the land was okay… scary!
Was the sweetest girl me? Because I think that story sounds scarily familiar.
Why do sweet girls do those sorts of things? I know I did, I mean, I know of a sweet girl who did.