Potato-Chip Baby
My sister the meth cooker
In rural America, where I live (but not where I'm from) methamphetamine is a growing problem. It's becoming a problem in the urban areas now too, but it's easier to make in rural parts.
There's a couple of reasons for this:
- Cooking meth smells really bad, and if your neighbor smells something that bad, they are bound to alert the authorities. Many meth labs are in houses in the country. Some people even have them in their cars and drive out to the country to make the meth. It's also harder for the cops to track down this way.
- One of the ingredients of meth is anhydrous ammonia. One of the things farmers put on their fields to add nutrients is anhydrous ammonia. Farmers have tanks of the stuff on their farms, and meth addicts often tap into the tanks and steal it. Anhydrous is a much harder to find in urban areas.
Now, I am not a meth addict. I know this information because I work for a newspaper and we have done stories on it, as well as report on farm meetings about locking up anhydrous tanks so it can't be stolen.
And, because I have all this information running around in my head, my brain decided to put it together in the form of this morning's dream:
My dad and I returned to our house to find that there had had been an explosion.
Apparently, my sister had a meth lab in the basement. In this dream, we lived next door to a cop that I know in real life and he told me that the explosion was from my sister's meth lab. Why he hadn't done anything prior to the explosion and why he hadn't arrested my sister after the explosion, I don't know.
Of course, my sister denied anything and blamed the accident on something else and said the explosion originated elsewhere in the house. My dad denied that my sister had a drug problem as well.
The house was still standing, but was very damaged. I went to the basement and saw where the floor was black and I knew the explosion originated there. I was trying to explain to them about meth and how the chemicals are very explosive. I was asking my sister about meth and why she had a meth lab, etc. But she and my dad just kept denying it.
