I did one time find an amanita mushroom when I went searching for them in a local park with my mum's help.
I cooked the whole thing up in water, and took the liquid and the mushroom with me doing a days furniture moving work as an assistant being driven around the country. I was only 18.
The poor guy whose business it was, an old friend of my mum's, Dave Endersby his name, I dont know what he must have thought about this excited crazy teenager who DIDNT SHUT UP the whole day- I made no secret about having this Fly Agaric mushroom to eat and drink.
WTF was I thinking doing that on a day like that? Smoking goldseal black in my chillum all the way to Birmingham UK and back?
Poor Dave must have been so anxious I was gonna break something or worse! As it turned out, I was a fantastic worker still, no foot wrong. The mushroom never seemed to take an effect strangely, I drank the whole bottle and ate the entire thing myself.
Later that friday evening back home, I went with a friend to score some ecstasy for a Helter Skelter rave we had tickets for the next night. I felt a bit strange, sort of feverish and really zonked out. Slept over 12 hours. I think the effects didnt really hit me until I was at the rave Saturday night, and was mixed with the ecstasy.
Just remembered that anyway. How CRAZY was that to take the mushroom on a day's work?
Some people man!
I guess I thought it would be a crack! Crazy me!