Yesterday I had to drive my mother in law to the train station becasue she was going downtown to meet her pot dealer. I promise that one of these days I am going to write a big long post about my mother in law but today is not the day.
My wife and I have a pretty clean lifestyle, I will have a beer or two occasionally and my wife stopped drinking any alcohol when she got pregnant with our first child and has not had a drink since so I think that from a drug abuse standpoint we are almost model citizens.
So in saying this I have to say that just the fact that my mother in law has a drug dealer is horrifying to my wife and she is always angry that money her mom spends on food goes to buying pot.
Did I go off topic again? Yes what else is new. Anyway, I am driving my mother in law to the train station and the conversation goes like this.
“I think the train stops running at 1:00 or so”
“Thats ok I am just going downtown and then coming straight home”
“Really? Why are you bothering to go downtown at all then?”
“To get some pot, my guy is 63 and goes to bed early so I am just getting it and going home”
“Oh” (I still can’t believe she takes a bus or train for an hour to score dope but that’s her business)
“The guy I used to go to had HIV and died a few weeks ago I didn’t even know but I found out from his boyfriend”
“Really? your dealer had AIDS?”
“Yes, that’s pretty sad he was only 41″
Quietness, quietness, quietness
“Well, uh, see you tomorrow for your moving”
“By Billy have a good night”
Why do I tell a crazy short story like this about my mother in law? Well I think I have known about a dozen or so closeted or not gay guys in my whole life and the quietness in the car was because I was thinking that somehow the biggest epidemic that I have known in my lifetime is absolutely not a part of my life. I have never known anyone with AIDS or HIV and do not see any of it in my life except the occasional story on TV, I never even see it in my RSS feeds that I read. Has Aids disappeared from view in North America. It seems the only stories we see now about it are the aids babies in Africa stories.
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