So do you think there are really people with children who have weekends in the country and then have lines of coke when the kids are in bed?

[emkana]

Because according to the Sunday Times there are.

They must be on a different planet to me though.

LL - you are right that it can make braying city boys into even louder more aggressive forms of their normal selves.

When I said it would improve some people I was thinking of my half brother. He is really socially shy and awkward. Having a conversation with him is like getting blood from a stone. However an E or a line of Coke makes him alot more animated. His ex wife says she left him at the point she realised that she dreaded evenings that he was drug free!

I know a whole bunch of yummy mummies (and their slightly less yummy OHs) who put their kids to bed and then do "a nice bit of dooby" as they call it. They seem to think it's perfectly ok.

haven't read the link, just the OP but of course it happens - people do put their kids to bed and do booze and drugs. Not saying its right, not saying I would do it, but it happens

coke makes people so obnoxious they don't even realise how obnoxious they are.

i'd rather hang out with a cold brick.

even junkies are better company.

I live on a different plant to the one in the Times. The only drus in my house are Ad's, painkillers and calpol

Don't you think it's the media that makes it look more like the norm than it actually is though and by doing so encourages more people to do this kind of thing to "be trendy"? saddos

YEs, there definetley are these people.
I went through a pretty rough patch and I was one of them. I'm not one of them anymore though, and I think when youa re doing it, it seems great, reasonable, ok, fine, fun, helps you hold it together and have a good time. But really you are so far from fine you might as well be drowning in the middle of a big dark swamp!

I'm not one of them anymore.

I do have weekends away but no coke.
But I do know people who have weekends away in the country and coke
so they do exist

I went on a youth hostelling trip to the countryside with a friend some years ago, plus our children - (two ds's aged around 7 years old and one toddler).

We had two family rooms in the youth hostel. I went to the loo with my toddler, came back to find my friend in one ot the rooms with my son and hers. Both boys were playing on the bunk beds, my friend was leaning on a window sill with her back to the room in the process of finishing a line of coke.

Weekend in the county, adults taking coke - yes I can vouch that it happens.

Jeeez i must live a very sheltered life (thnkfully!)

why do you think I never post from Friday afternoon until Sunday evening...

Don't knock what you cannot afford

I know a few.
Personally I don't know how they do it as it would take me a week to recover from a night of partying chez Charlie.

I agree with expat that coke makes you obnoxious. It's certainly not on a vibe which is conducive to good parenting IMHO.

I know people like this, not part of that circle any more thank God.

Has anyone started a thread about buying the watch that pops up when you read the article, only then to get an online stoning?

Not round here. What a thought![giggle]

Seriously, no. It's an urban myth, like swinging.

Isn't that right?

i know people who do this. and not just during weekends away either.

Spidermama - it takes me a few days to recover from a night of alcohol let alone anthing else!!!!!

yes, of course they exist

10 years too late for me though, nothing worse then an old gimmer coke head ranting on, good god someone phone them a cab

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