This older guy up the street told me that he wasn't sure that the dose was still good, but it might be worth trying. It was a late summer evening and I must have been fourteen or fifteen at the time. After dropping the four-way windowpane I hung out for a while and then went to ask my parents if I could stay out a little longer, maybe another half an hour. Later, I remember laying in the street with my friends, our heads on the curb, watching the stars form a giant halo around the horizon and leaving only the big dipper in the center. The pine needles above were also forming halos, and quivering in the breeze. When I finally made it home a couple of hours later everything went fish-eye. I was in bed with the covers pulled up to my chin when Dad came to discuss my tardiness. He was yelling at me about smoking cigarettes (which I never did) and wagging his finger at me, but the tip of his finger was the size of a basketball, and his head was just a pin. Got to sleep a couple of hours later, and woke up feeling great. If only all trips could be so blissful...