First Drinks: Apple Martinis, Smirnoff, and Mall Food Court Days

• 1:22:08Tim didn't start drinking until he left the church, and his first drink was 12 shots of Smirnoff apple vodka while watching the movie Paul.
• 1:22:54Tim's first experience with alcohol came in 11th grade at Roosevelt Field mall, where he and a friend drank apple martinis at a California-style restaurant.
• 1:23:21The apple martinis were sewage-colored and greenish, like ecto cooler, and they got drunk enough that his friend's dad had to pick them up.
• 1:23:43Before drinking, Tim had already done LSD, cocaine, weed, and pills starting as early as age 13 or 14.
• 1:24:07Weed was better than booze in the first couple years of smoking it, but then the paranoia set in and it stopped working as well.
• 1:24:33The most fun Tim ever had was being stoned as a teenager with friends and laughing at ridiculous things together.
• 1:24:53In his early 20s at community college, they played a game where they'd make up slogans and jingles for things while really stoned.
• 1:25:37Walking around a mall food court with no money, getting free samples, eating ranch chicken sandwiches, and laughing about how nothing matters but they could still save their lives.
• 1:25:59After high school, the drinking became less fun because friends went away to college while Tim stayed at community college smoking weed with a guy named Bunz.
• 1:26:28Tim got into mortgages and discovered booze and coke together, though he generally avoided mixing drugs and never combined pills and blow.
• 1:27:00Having a car as a teenager opened up a whole different level of fun compared to just walking around town getting high.

Simon PeggRyan Wass Legarre