Back In The Day... Puff????

Ever since I purchased Ms. Badu's new album, New Amerykah, I have been on this Erykah kick. I tend to do that. If I am into a particular artist's album, I'll want to go back and listen to every other piece of work that they ever put out.

Well, I was listening to "Back in the Day (Puff)" off of her World Wide Underground CD. Man, listening to music is like playing with fire for me. It took me right back to undergrad, circa summer 2003. Now, keep in mind that I was an entirely different person back then... I was walking on campus, probably coming from work- on my way to class, when a green crown vic with dark tinted windows pulls up. I recognize the vehicle immediately. But to avoid embarrassment (if it wasn't who I thought it was) I just kept looking straight. So, the green vic pulls up next to me. The window rolls down to reveal a car full of well known boys from a popular fraternity. I was cool with all of them. So, they said whats up, asked me where I was going and some way I ended up in the car with them.

We drove around Tuscaloosa on that beautiful, bright, sunny day. I sat in the back with two other guys. They were smoking black and milds and drinking. And so naturally, I drank too. I don't really remember much more than that. I just recall not going to class and riding around the entire afternoon. I do remember telling them to take me home When the sun started to shift in position a little. I was stupid for jumping in the car with them, but the little sense I did have screamed, "DON'T STAY OUT PAST SUN LIGHT WITH THEM!!"

So, after another hour of pleading to drop me off, they finally take me to my apartment. It's a Tuesday evening, not even 9 o'clock, I didn't go to class, and I'm good and tipsy. And that was fun for me. Wow. Talk about how things change.... Thank God for a new life!