[Tron_fdc]

When i lived in Oz I spent a few months in a small town called Byron Bay. It's a laid back hippie/surf town, but it has a rampant heroin abuse underbelly that not a lot of people see unless you're there for a while. Anyway, I came in from a surf after a particularily large swell came through, and after getting pummeled a few times my knees were bleeding from all the reef that got exposed from the swell. Some skinny crazy dude walks past me, stops, and stares right at me saying nothing. I totally ignored him, because the last thing I wanted to do was engage in a conversation with someone strung out on smack. Crazy guy looks at me for a bit, shrugs his shoulders, and then walks off down the beach. About 10 feeet past me he comes across another dude coming out of the surf, who he proceeds to block off. Crazy guy then points at me, and yells

"HE'S AFRAID OF THE ROCKS!!! THAT"S WHY HE WON'T GO IN!!!!"

and storms off down the beach.

Since then it's been a running joke between all of my friends whenever we're about to do something stupid."What, are you afraid of the rocks or something??"

I also worked in a hostel that was the old town hall, and we would ALL KINDS of lowlifes coming in looking for their pogey cheques. One dude in particular went to great lengths explaining to a bunch of 20yr olds how his old lady got screwed, he got screwed, and all his friends got screwed by the system. He started getting really agitated when we started laughing at him, and the manager hd to call the cops to get rid of him.

Count heroin as one of the drugs I'll never do.......