Local Drugs

Maybe I would have understood The Small Town if I would have read the local paper more often, but I really don’t think so. Today I actually went trough it at lunch in the canteen at work and got absolutely amazed and flabbergasted over an article. It was about the spread of “spray-abuse” among the pupils of a school in another small town in the area (might actually be even smaller!). I just did not understand it at all. What the f..k is spray-abuse?? What kind of spray? And how do they abuse it? Even though I read both articles on it I did not really get it, but obviously the kids bought the spray in the supermarkets and it seems they were sniffing it. From the slang word the kids use for doing this “glading” I assumed it might be these room refreshing sprays (from the brand Glade).

I found it absolutely hilarious. I am not sure my colleagues around the tab quite appreciated what was so fun about it. But come on; the paper treated it as a very serious problem, and maybe it is. But I have never heard about it from anywhere else, so just imagine the lever of boredom, frustration and imagination too for that matter, for those kids in this little God forgotten place to go and buy room scent and sniffing them high on that. My God, they can not have any sense of smell left after that!! Welcome to country side Sweden!!