High

I have a cousin who used to teach 7th grade. He learned from his students that a common way for them to get high was by "Going Robo."

Urban Dictionary says:

Robitussin or other cough medicines containing DXM, which drank in large quantities makes you trip balls and feel itchy. As in: "I'm gonna chug this bottle of Robo and get percolated."

 

A couple months ago, I can't remember how this topic got brought up at work, but I was talking with two of my 60+ coworkers P and R about getting high.

 

P: When I was in the army there was a guy who used to take a bottle of whiskey and pour cherry Kool-Aid powder in it. He'd shake it up and put it in the freezer for awhile to get cold and he'd drink that every night. I guess it helped him sleep.

 

R: It made him sleep? Or it got him high?

 

P: I think he took it to make him sleep. Although I suppose he could have done it to get high. When you're in the army, there's not much at your disposal to use for that kind of thing so anything is possible.

 

R: Yeah, like when kids sniff markers because that's all they can get access to.

 

Me: Kids are way more advanced than markers these days. I have a cousin who used to teach 7th grade and they would drink Robitussin to get high. They called it "Going Robo."

 

P and R: (laughing)

 

P: Really? Cause there was also a guy in the army who always had a bottle of cough syrup in his back pocket. I always thought it was weird that he would be sick so much that he was always carrying it around. And I always thought he never seemed sick. I guess maybe he never really was sick though....

 

 

 

So today P and R got talking about the tornado in Oklahoma, which got P talking about a tornado he almost experienced:

 

P: I was working at the site [meaning a nuclear power plant (our line of work)] and a few of us were walking around the plant and noticed that no one else seemed to be around, but we didn't think much of it. Then we went outside to go back to our trailer and saw a funnel cloud in the distance. So I guess everyone else got moved to a safe location in the plant but didn't bother to tell us. The tornado never hit us though. It was moving in the other direction. But it was kind of scary seeing it that close up.

 

R: Have you ever heard of these "Storm Chasers" that follow the path of tornadoes and get it on video? I don't understand why they would risk so much for that?

 

P: It's an adrenaline rush. Like a high.

 

R: Yeah, I guess you're right. Like the same kind of high from Going Robo.