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August 25, 2007 |
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Find Another House
FOUND by Travis
in Baltimore, Maryland
Found in the gutter on Ramsay Street. I am most struck by the comment about the stove. It seems to say, "Look, I'm not really thrilled about the dope-shooting in my house, but I could live with it if you were just a little more conscientious about turning off the stove when you were done." Some people are never satisfied. No doubt, if they did turn off the stove, "Me" would start complaining about the needles left lying around.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Is there another definition for dope other than marijuana? Maybe it's the BC in me but I've never heard of anything intravenous being called dope...
I thought "dope" meant marijuana. And I don't understand how you can "shoot" weed. Maybe I'm just not hip to modern drug terminology.
Aaaahhhh.....someone burnt the rice again. It adds a certain flavour though. "Me" really should get used to it.
By Dope they mean heroin.
Well, that puts my complaint about my husband leaving his dirty socks in the living room into perspective.
im sorry mom, but i didn't like the taste of crack
never heard weed called dope before, only heroin
I have heard "dope" used to describe LOTS of different drugs.....pot, heroin, meth, crack....maybe I watch too much TV....
The stove? I don't really know much about drugs..but is heroin warmed up before injected? That would explain the stove...at first I though it said, "store". Creepy find, and sad.
Well, if turing off the stove was good enough for this person, the dope shooters really messed this one up.
Travis - great find. Kudos! And I laughed at your analysis of the find. Dead on.
And how sad at what one accepts in relationships for fear of being alone. Glad to see 'me' has finally had enough.
Wow, back in my shooting up days, this person would have been considered a very good thing. I would have made SURE to turn the stove off.
And yes, dope is heroin in my part of the world, and yes, you do need to heat it up and a gas stove would be lovely for that, although a match does just as well. Sometimes, for the powder stuff, you don't even need heat.
Yikes, I'm triggering myself. On to Perez Hilton then.
I can't find my spoon and I need a fix!
i've never heard of dope being referred to anything BUT heroin. but maybe it's a cultural/local thing.
seems to me that the 'me' there is just a little bit on the passive-aggressive side.
Yikes. Reminds me of an alcoholic friend who would frequently leave her stove on after getting the munchies, but would pass out before her food was done. Her husband confronted her about it - directly, not with a note - and rather than seeing that she needed to change, she left her husband! Hmmm... haven't heard from her in a few years. Wonder how she's doing - if she's still alive, that is.
Not only that, you're ruining half my good silverware, too.
Also, if you've never heard dope used as a euphemism for anything other than heroin, please watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as soon as possible.
WHEN I WAS USING, MONA, I'D GENERALLY SLAM COCAINE. THE PRICE WASN'T WORTH THE HIGH OTHERWISE.
"I've seen the needle and the damage done. A little part of it in everyone, but every junkie's like a setting sun."
-Neil Young
On the west coast, people smoke dope. AKA weed.
However, dope can refer to heroin as well.
It can also refer to certain people, for example, the ones who put the current occupant in office.
dope = drugs (any of them)
Please don't take my former comment to mean that I think people who smoke dope are dopes. That term, when referring to people, comes from the dopes who shoot dope.
Also, one of the seven dwarves was named Dopey.
Just so there are no misunderstandings.
I wonder if those dope shooters found another house.
I've always understood that 'dope' was a reference for any i.v. drug. It's used that way in professional sports now as well.
I do know that regionally in the US, 'dope' can be a catch-all reference w/certain less-than-urban areas.
This is a rather depressing find. Lots to be concerned about here.
I'm surprised to see that people hadn't heard of heroin refered to as dope. As in "dope sick:" the nasty hangover / withdrawal from the drug.
But, yeah, I've heard of pot refered to as dope, too. There was this after school special in the late '80s (do they still make those??) where the older sister confronts her brother about his pot use and is yelling at him in her valley girl accent, "Admit it! You're a doper," which made my sister and I laugh for years to come.
Admit it! You're a doper!
mona's being impostered because a couple of finds ago she said that she wasnt in recovery and she was being impostered.
i would be pissed too if someone left my stove on
Hmm now that I think of it, I've heard of "dope" as pot as well as "blood doping" which is where an athlete injects extra red blood cells into his/her blood stream, so as to carry more oxygen.
I think what "dope" refers to is definitely a function of location... In BC pot is (arguably) the most common drug, so it makes sense that it's "dope" i guess...
"shooting dope" is
shooting heroine.
however, regular
"dope" is mary jane.
i'd be kinda pissed
about the stove too,
such a fire hazard.
Yo, yo, yo, "dope" means dope, like chill, like cool, like ice, yo, yo, yo like Dre's new single, yo, that's hella dope.
wikipedia article on hippie says "non-narcotic drugs came to be called dope through the habitual imitation of those who used such catchall terminology out of ignorance"
Who are you calling a dope, embrillis? 8-)Heroine is a female hero.
Heroin, speed and coke can all be injected.
I think James@Found posted this today because he knew Rex would be away in the mountains.
I think the stove being left on again was just the final straw . I hope Me sticks to her ( girly writing ) guns .
I have lived with a junkie , and it can be a really desperate isolated situation .I wrote a little song back in those days that began :
" You look at me with needle pokes for eyes ,
And with a fake straight face , tell me so many lies . "
Oh , Flargy , if you're really learning about Cuba , the memoir " Next Year in Cuba " by Gustavo Perez Firmat is a real treasure .
I had a junkie roomate a few years ago. He was a speed freak, though. He didn't leave the stove on much, just got really wound up and cleaned the hell out of the house. He also worked a lot of crossword puzzles and hummed a lot.
Mona Lisa, congrats on your 45 days!
Jan, I loved the socks comment. This does indeed put smaller things in perspective.
I've heard dope used to describe drugs in general, usually by older people. I don't think it's that the stove was left on, I think that was Me's clue that someone in his/her house is doing heroine, and Me is telling them that she knows, so either quit or get out. Maybe it's an older person allowing some troubled kid(s) to live with her.
Matt, that doesn't sound like a bad roommate to have, really. I'd like someone to clean my room.
And maybe the note was actually "Me" letting the person know that they knew about the dope. Angrily.
I don't like that my computer automatically filled in my whole name. I wish I could delete that comment.
Damnit!
Dope is a reference to most drugs, normally heavy narcotics. Just as being stoned would be applicable to multiple drugs (normally heavy narcotics) as well.
One thing though I'm a bit curious to discover about the responses to this find would be that no one is questioning the sobriety of the writer. If there is a substantial amount of dope usage in my hope, I'd better hope I was getting in on it (even though I don't do drugs at all)! I mean, if our worst problem in this dope house is leaving the stove on and not the fact that we have people using, wouldn't that suggest that we have a relatively responsible drug addict writing this note? And yes, they very much do exists.
Dave in Salem brought back a long-buried memory. When I was in high school, there were two cliques, the "dopers" (pot users, AKA hippies) and the "juicers" (alcohol users, AKA jocks). The dopers considered it beneath them to drink, and vice-versa. Never the twain shall meet...(in white upper-middle class suburbia in those days heroin did not exist). Thanks for the memories, Dave!
You can use 'dope' to describe any drug. But out here in SoCal, if you said somebody was on dope, they'd likely think you meant methamphetamine. Out on the east coast, I'd bet they're talking about heroin or oxycontin.
And it's weird because just last night my husband was telling me about his ex-coworker, the guy was a huge pot-head, the rare real life marijuana junkie. Now, he's living with his parents and shooting Oxy like it's going out of style. Sad.
Ancient Vivi would do his heroine every day if he could!
"I was in love with a girl on cocaine
She had everything going but a brain
We'd talk endlessly, for hours,
But by morning it'd go sour,
I was in love with a girl on cocaine."
-Tom Petty, Girl on LSD
No mention of a girl on dope or leaving the stove on, but still a great song.
I love Girl on LSD beeswax.. also.. why is everyone writing heroine instead of heroin? MaryJane already explained the difference guys.. catch on now
thanks, toaster. I am not in recovery, tho i salute those who are. It seems the impostor impostors me even when i'm being inactive.
I think dope can mean just about anything you want it to, usually its marijuana, but i've heard of heroin being referred to as dope. You just gotta remember to turn off the stove, i guess. that'll keep people off your back about the dope use.
who actually refers to drugs as "dope" nowadays? what ever the drug may be.
why do ya think they call it dope?
Dear Grammarians,
Sorry to bother y'all on your day off, but didn't 'Me' end a sentence with a preposition? Twice? Isn't there a law about that somewhere? (Oops, did I do it too? I'm so illiterate....)
I agree it's odd that the person is almost saying: It's okay to shoot dope, just don't leave the stove on. I hate cluckers. I'd have the balls to kick them out on their butt's in 2 seconds. Zero Tolerence. Intreveneous drugs are bad news.
Isn't "doping" in sports referring to anabolic steroids or other performance enhancing drugs? Those can be injected or oral.
"BASE, how low can you Go, Deathrow, What a brother know" - Chuck D
I think they are talking about base here because, heroin is ussually cooked in smaller portions in a spoon. However Crack on the other hand is cooked in larger quantities in a pot or pan on a stove over low heat. Meth is ussually spun in a glass pipe with one opening. It is not prepare on a stove. These people were obviously cutting down their coke to increase it's street value. (7 parts soda, 1 part coke.) Baltimore is famous for it's basehead's. I wouldn't be at all surpised. I hate crackheads too, I'd kick em out for sure.
You know Chuck D. Meth can be smoked, snorted, or slammed, same with heroin. Who shoots crack? Crack is whack!
Also, meth users use the stove to clean their pipes.
Don't ask me how I know this stuff.
I never !
Aww Rex, it all just helps put life in perspective. If ever somebody says, "Hey, No-Life, you spend all day on the computer... checking Found...etc..etc..." I can think, "Beats living in a dope house--any day, every day."
Ditto, Terrie!
Once in the 80's at Myrtle Beach I was at a water slide and this teenager wearing cut off jeans instead of swim trunks went down the baby slide doing rock devil horn hands and yelling,
"Whoooooo! Yeah! Smoooooooooke Dooooooooope!"
Mona, obviously you are not inactive. You are on here everyday. WTF!
"Shooting dope" means shooting heroin or cocaine here in CT. Dope can also mean any other drug, including pot. I think it's safe to say that this person was shooting SOMETHING illegal, lol.
I've never actually heard someone who's familiar with marijuana in real life refer to it as "dope," unless they're reminiscing about their experiences in the 60s. But I've only lived in the South and the midwest, so that could be a regional thing. "Dope" is used to describe hard drugs, or by people who are really out of touch (the moms on after-school-specials, as someone mentioned further up).
My best friend is a junkie, he shoots up all day
Sometimes he even shits himself, what else can I say?
Shoot up or shut up
Shoot up or shut up
Shoot up or shut up
Shoot up or SHUT UP!
-The Dead Milkmen
(I'm going to try to come up with a DM reference for every day's find from now on. Please feel free to join me with your own favorite band. Unless your favorite band happens to be Creed. Or Staind. Or Nickelback. Or the Dave Matthews Band.)
pepper, you'd have to be here everyday to know if i was here every day. do you have a problem with me???? wtf?
observe someone else.
I am.
"terrie-is-so-very" my husband is a rare marijuana junkie. That man can get high then go hiking for a couple of hours.
should i find it offensive that it seems the only way my S.O. can get along with me is to be high most of the time? Argumentative ++.. goes for a 'walk'... comes back in good mood...
Yeah, i was too high in the mountains to actually post the post that pepper posted with my name (that's right, bitch, i'm on to you)
My theory is that this is a hyper-cynical paranoid grandparent watching her grandkids who aren't cooking anything more dangerous than Mac N Cheez. They left the stove on on accident once or twice and the old bag jumped to conclusions. The kids don't even know what dope is and are wondering if grandma got a hold of their secret stash of gangsta rap (which, of course they don't actually understand at all)
Rex, I have no ideal what you are talking about. I only imposter Mona and sometimes Hotmom, (although she is too easy). Also, I'm a dude.
Well, i figured you were impostering someone, which makes you a simpering cowardly little bitch, male or female.
Thats right.
Southern Belle, awesome story. and i know this find is kinda old, but i'll try to join you, Flargy. you rock btw. and this note is kinda funny but really sad too. like so much stuff on Found. drug addicts make me sad, because there have been lots of people (no one i knew personally, mostly musicians) that i've really liked and thought were amazing, even though they were addicts.
Oh no, not dope smoking stove leaver on-ers!
They messed up bad. If all she wanted was them to turn off the stove, they messed up.
Gosh, this find really brings back memories of time I have spent in Baltimore. I remember our favorite hangout (this is in the 90's) was the Mount Royal Tavern. It was a cool place to go until everyone started getting into dope. The last time I went there (over 10 years ago now - in fact, I think it is closed now), the guy sitting next to me at the bar was completely passed out with his forehead on the bar. I nudged him awake and he asked if he could get 5 bucks off me. Then I went to the bathroom and the entire lyrics for "Cold Turkey" were written on the stall door.
I knew it was time go back to Virginia. I have lost track of most of my Baltimore friends. Very sad, I love the city.
It took a knife on the door of my dorm room (shared with my psycho roomie) to get out. We weren't allowed to switch roomies halfway through the semester, but the RA saw the light when the steak knife appeared.
Later I found out she was kicked out of school for a 0.00 GPA. I dunno maybe it was the X she did daily (after I moved out thankfully)?
If this is the main cause of people leaving the stove on, then my mom was on dope the whole time she was "raising" me.
There's a lot of chatter about the meaning of "dope". I think I'll ask my mom.
This is just hysterical.
Well leaving a stove on is dangerous