Smokin ( Archived) (32)

My older brother Freddy was a little strange. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother drank a lot when she was carrying him. His behavior made it hard for him to make any friends cause they all thought he was weird. There was a group of guys he wanted to hang out with in middle school but they wouldn't accept him into their clicque because he didn't smoke and they all did. I guess they didn't want anybody who may have felt superior to them in the crowd who might think he was better than them. So, in order to be accepted into the gang Freddy had to become a smoker, which he did.

Some time after that, he decided to make me a better person by teaching me to smoke. I was about 9 or 10 years old at the time. He took me out in the hallway and tried to get me to smoke a cigarette. After a lot of urging I finally sucked a mouthful of smoke from the cigarette and then blew it out and said "That was terrible." He said No, No, you're supposed to inhale like this and he showed he how to do it. I thought that seems kinda gross but WTH ok I'll try it. So, I took another puff and opened my mouth and sucked the smoke into my lungs. Well, I thought I was gonna die cause it was so horrible that I immediately blew it out as fast as I could and started caughing and feeling kinda dizzy.
At which point he said No, No you're supposed to hold it in your lungs as long as possible. I thought you gotta be crazy to do a thing like that, I mean why whould anybody torture themselves by doing something like that?
It was getting late and I thought there might be something on TV I want to watch so we went back in the house.