I have an old friend of forty years, Paul, both of us "explorer club" members, so to speak, from way back. One night last summer he came over and I was excited to turn him on to vaporizing. I was at the time using my SSV. He's sort of cocky and a loud mouth, and not much impresses him aside from what he discovers for himself. Paul took a few pulls from the SSV, reflected on how he felt, then he said, "Yeah I get it. It's FLOATY, but it's not for me. Vaporizing is too "ritual."
Alright, that's sort of amusing, but here's one that I think is funnier but it's pre-vapor. When Paul and I were both around 16, we took, how we say, purple tablets that are kind of like a synthetic version of a cactus or mushroom but much more potent and long lasting. More specifically these purple replications were described as "Purple Owsley." Owsley was a chemist who was affiliated with the Grateful Dead. Paul was staying over at my house and we had the whole night planned - a horror movie on TV and his Black Sabbath LP. About an hour into it, we went out for a walk around the corner. The sidewalk started to feel mushy like foam, like we were in a Hush Puppy TV commercial, which was very pleasant. "Wow, I can bounce. The sidewalk is SO soft now!" Then this little pizza delivery Volkswagen Bug whizzed past us with a chef's head on the hood, with the chef's hat, the cardboard chef was looking at us, smiling of approval, which cracked both of us like it was the funniest thing ever. We realized we were really beginning to get off so we felt it best to get back to the house before we get lost. Plus my father was waiting for us to get back so he could lock the door and go to sleep.
I rang the bell and realized I was sort of in an vacuum state, beginning to peak, and went into survival mode, remembering I have to say "hello" and "goodnite" to get past my father. As I spoke and as my father spoke, every word filled the air in alphabet soup letters. Paul and I went downstairs to my room, I remember I was walking back and forth in a straight line, and Paul told me my father is waiting at the steps for me to shut off the light and say goodnight. "Paul, what do I do?" "It's easy. Put on your bathrobe, go into the hallway, look at your father and say "Goodnite Dad," then shut the light off, turn around and walk back into the room. We'll turn the light on after he goes upstairs." "Got it. Wait, give me the order of this again. What do I do first?" "Forget it, you can't do anything, I'll do it for you." Paul put on my bathrobe, went to the light, looked at my father and said, "Goodnite Dad."
We heard my father go up the steps. Then we put on the Black Sabbath LP. Paul turned the volume up all the way. He said, "See Jeff, volume makes NO SENSE!"
A little while later there was a tap on my window, it was two of my other friends, Joel and Robert, also on the same Purple Owsley. "We were out all night. Joel was sitting on his window sill looking at the sky, saying "I see God, I see God." They brought over a bag of Colombian which was as high end as you can get back in those days, and the night got even more amazing.
A few weeks before that my parents were away for the weekend and I was supposed to stay over at Paul's house, who lived around the corner. Before they left I unlocked a little window so I could sneak back in after they left and we had a full weekend party at the house. That was actually my first time experiencing the true beyond within with these little purple tablets. Not knowing what to expect, we ordered Italian food for dinner, then shortly afterward completely lost our appetite to the point where eating seemed absurd and impossible. I remember we dumped all the food in the sink including clam chowder. I was staring at the sink. Paul snuck up behind me and dunked my head into the soup and said, "This is your L__ trip." Shortly after some of my friends went upstairs and took off the bedsheets and were prancing around the living room like ghosts. My friend Larry was spinning around in this swivel chair pointing at a corner, saying he sees Santa Claus. Eddie started spitting chewed pretzel nuggets out of his mouth at us and that started a pretzel nugget spitting war. Tony was saying, "We should have brought girls. Girls would have been much better, I wish there were girls." I was in the bathroom hypnotized by my tongue in the mirror. It seemed to have its own persona, it seemed to be my ego in physical form. I left the bathroom, looked at the chaos in the living room, and realized my parents were coming back the next day. "Just look at this place, just look at it!" We were in agreement that it had to be cleaned. I brought up the vacuum cleaner and Larry asked if he could vacuum. I went back into the bathroom to look at my tongue and I heard, "Holy shit, the vacuum is on fire! Larry you asshole! You put a lit cigarette in it!" So we took the vacuum cleaner into the backyard to finish smoldering.
Finally we agreed that the place was now clean. We were beginning to come down and decided we were hungry, and there were bagels. We sat at the table, passing the large sharp carving knife around to put jelly on our bagels. Larry had no shirt on and Paul was standing behind Larry as there were not enough chairs. Paul slapped Larry on the back with his hand, he said, to give him "five fingers." A few minutes later Larry had the knife and he was looking at the bagel at all angles before cutting it. Paul was getting impatient. "Give me the KNIFE Larry!" Larry flung his hand back, stabbing Paul in the hand with it. "You got it!" Paul stood there, staring at his hand with a knife attached to it. "I can't believe you fucking stabbed me, Larry. I can't believe you actually stabbed me!"
Eventually we left the house and I waited for my parents to get home before returning. They knew immediately that the house wasn't the same as when the left it, and I basically told them the truth, except for what actually happened.
I doubt I'll win your vaporizing story contest but you wanted a story.