Nice day yesterday so I headed out around 2PM for my usual afternoon walkabout. I ended on the steps at the Art Gallery. Nothing but teenagers milling about. All living out some sort of soap opera that certainly seemed very dramtic. Well, to them anyway.

The longer I sat there, the more they came. One girl was in hysterics, throwing CDs, screaming and then crying on her girlfriends lap. Another girl was totally wrecked. Like meth or something. She looked about 16 and it looked like it wasn’t her first time on whatever she was flying on. Pretty hard core for someone that age.

Then in the evening, I’m in bed and I can hear this girl screaming. Not an “I’m 16, I’ve had 2 beers and I’m on the loose downtown! PARTY!!” (which is common) but more intense. The sounds weren’t moving either; it seemed as though she were very close by.

Finally after 15 minutes of this, I got up and looked out the window. 2 cops, an ambulance and a large crowd of people staring at the freak show. And she’s still screaming… They finally sedated her (or whatever) but the question bears asking; how high do you need to be?