A Sad Visual

~ Clarissa

We went to Michaels to buy some balloons and got stuck in line at the register behind a group of meth addicts. They had black teeth, their body parts were falling out of skimpy clothing, and they were acting very erratically. One woman was stuffing her face with cotton candy, opening her mouth so wide I was afraid her jaw would pop.

“Now I understand why you keep saying drugs are terrible,” Klara said when we left.

I feel terrible for these people. The way the women looked, it was clear that they make the money for their habit by prostituting themselves.

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5 thoughts on “A Sad Visual”

  1. Sorry your kid has to know about that at all.

    But also: your kid didn’t say anything until you left. Nice work on the tact and discretion!

    (we are still working on that one)

    -ethyl

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    1. Unfortunately, there’s no avoiding such things any longer. One goes to Michaels to pick up a couple of balloons, and even there one can’t avoid this dysfunction.

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      1. Yeah. We have started driving further to go to outlying Walmart/grocery/parks/other locations with the kids, for that reason. It’s worth a few extra miles.

        -ethyl

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  3. The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma.[1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding over-prescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its central role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.[2][3][4] They have been described as the “most evil family in America”,[5][6][7][8] and “the worst drug dealers in history”.[9][10]

    Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, the three children of Galician Jewish immigrants, grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s.

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