For some reason I can’t watch the video.

Monster Massive 2001, I think I was 16. My first girlfriend and I bought some ecstasy from a friend, snuck out in her mom’s truck and drove to LA. This is back in the scary days of raves when they were all ages. We got there at 10pm but didn’t get in to the rave until 11. It was absolutely wild. People dressed in garbage bags. People on stilts. Women wearing pasties. I had never seen anything like this in my life! We explored for about an hour and eventually found some water. We ended up eating the pills around midnight. I ate 1 and she took 1/2. 1:30am came around and it just barely kick in. It was magical! I had never imagined that a person could feel so much pleasure throughout their body. If you know you know… All of a sudden all the lights came on and the rave was over and the harsh reality that we now had to drive home. We waited until about 5:30 when the sun started coming up and eventually decided that we could not be out ALL night with her mom’s truck. So I start driving home. We didn’t make it 3 miles before getting pulled over. Cop pulls me out says “I look like a God-damn hoot-owl!” I cry and confess that I had taken something that I thought was ecstasy. I made a mistake but I thought I was ok to drive. He does a field sobriety test on both of us. I fail. My girlfriend passes. It was a combination of having colored contacts, she had more asian looking eyes that wouldn’t bug out and the fact that she only took a half of a pill. She drove us home, we got there about 30 mins before her mom woke up and it was our little secret from then on. Very reckless and I would be horrified if my daughter did that to me. At that time, it was the craziest thing that I had ever done. Ended up being a long series of crazy things but that was the first mind blowing experience.

@Kimberly Palmer likewise Kim. It sounds like you got an early start but also course corrected pretty early. I don’t think I started getting my life together until I was about 30.