You know those things people warn you about, and you hear their words but your first thought is “nah, that would never happen to me. The odds are against it.” Well, it happened. Someone tried to drug me last night. It was at my favorite country bar, where I regularly, stupidly, leave a drink unattended so I can dance. Learned my lesson from that.
Usually I have a group of friends with me and more often than not, at least one or two of us isnt dancing so my drinks are safe. Last night, pretty much none of them were there. It was the single scariest thing that has ever happened to me…and it didnt hit me until hours later how very real the danger was, and how vulnerable I was. I dont know if the dosage was too small, or if its because I had been dancing around all night so my metabolism was running high or what, but the effects wore off after about 5 minutes.
During that 5 minutes, if one of my friends hadn’t been right next to me making sure I was alright, and getting me water, I have no clue what could have happened. Had I been sitting by myself during that time, someone could have picked me up and carried me out and I would have just looked like I was really drunk even though I had only had that one drink.
I had injured myself right before, during the Footloose line dance my knee gave out. Hurt like a son of a bitch, so I was sitting it out with some ice on my knee. I drank some of my long island, the last little tiny bit there was in it, and within 2 minutes from taking that drink it started with my hearing being weird. Suddenly I had a really high pitched ringing sound in both my ears, the loud music of the bar and my friends talking around me was super dull. I could see my vision slowly going black at the edges, and my first thought was it could have something to do with my injury (even though this knee thing has happened to me before and I never experienced that.) Then, my head got very heavy and I could feel myself about to fall off the stool I was on. My friend asked if I needed the hospital, and I said “I dont know maybe…” and asked him to carry me to the section of the bar where there were booths so I could elevate my leg and get off that stool. While he was carrying me I could feel myself go limp, my movements and words were slow and sluggish…I drank some water and he stayed with me until the effects started to wear off. It still didnt hit me until a few minutes later what the likely explanation was.
I’m so grateful to my friend for being there, because lord knows what could have happened to me if I were alone.
Even if you think it would never happen to you, NEVER leave your drinks unattended with people you dont trust or dont know very well. This was an important lesson for me and I am so glad it wasnt as bad as it could have been, but maybe if you read this you can avoid even the “almost” experience that I had.
Submissive Angel 