I'm so Young (and Naive)

First off:



Nothing like an embarrassing photo from the past to start things off, (I'm Batman, my brother is Robin).
Now, on to the real content. Today at work (yes I know its getting old, but I do actually meet quite a lot of interesting people where I work), it was very boring. As such, we were talking about all sorts. Of course the first thing we talked about was what we had done the previous night, I explained that I went to the Pub with the Missus and some friends, and had discovered this:


(Non-alcoholic because I was driving)

My colleague explained she had gone out with friends, had a few drinks and popped a couple of "E"s(Sorry about the link, my drug lingo isn't exactly up to scratch). I carried on the conversation until I realised what she had just said. The normality of how she just slipped it into docile conversation without hesitation astounded me. I'm not often left speechless. However, I continued the conversation, asking her what its like to do the drug, why she does etc. When I asked her where she got it from:

Girl: "Oh, just Mum"

Carmelo: "Are you serious?!"

Girl: " Well not really my Mum, she isn't a drug dealer. My uncle is."

Astounded has already been used in this post, but nout else says how I felt. I told her what I knew about the risks; spiked pills, Overdoses, kidney damage, brain damage etc. She shrugged it off, "If I die tomorrow I want to be able to say I've tried everything." to which my response was " What if you don't die until you're 80, and wreck your body by the time your 30?"

I felt so naive, she was the same age as me. Yet I haven't even taken a pull from a cigarette.