It’s time I came clean. I can’t hide it anymore.
I love crystal meth. I can’t stop. I have to have it all the
time.
Not the actual drug. What am I, an idiot? Don’t answer that.
No, I’m talking about the show about the drug; Breaking Bad.
It’s soooo good. It’s the best thing I’ve put into my eyes since Pulp Fiction
came out.
I was addicted from the first scene. The pilot episode
begins with a middle-aged man wearing only beige socks, tan Hush Puppies,
tighty whities, and a full-face gas mask, behind the wheel of an antique Winnebago,
driving frantically at seventy miles an hour down a desert road, with an
unconscious passenger riding shotgun in a gas mask, and two dead gang bangers
and a destroyed chemistry set sliding around on the linoleum floor in the back.
You had me at hello. I will take whatever else you have to
offer, please.
I know we’re about eight years late to the party, but we don’t
have whatever channel it was on, and we’re too cheap to pay for Netflix, and we
were busy raising kids and working and stuff, so we had to bide our time and wait
to make friends with someone who owned it on DVD.
We finally found our DVD dealer, and now we’re binge-watching
the chronicles of Walter White, high school chemistry teacher gone bad.
Through a rare perfect storm of writing, casting, acting, and
directing, the geniuses behind Breaking Bad have made a show about meth more
addicting than actual meth. My wife and I have watched thirteen episodes in two
nights.
We are TV tweakers. Just like meth heads, our dietary habits
and personal hygiene have gone out the window. Sleep? Showers? Dinner? Who
cares? All we care about is the next episode. You’ve heard of meth mouth? I
have meth butt. I am creating a divot in our new couch, and my back is starting
to hurt, but I don’t care.
The only thing we care about is the next episode.
That became more obvious last night when my wife foolishly had
a girls’ night out instead of watching the hijinks of Walter White with me. We
were both a wreck. She couldn’t concentrate on the conversation, because all
she could think about was getting back to the couch at home. I did nothing but
pace back and forth in front of the television, waiting for her to get home and
nervously itching my meth butt, craving my fix.
We won’t make that mistake again. We don’t need less
Breaking Bad in our lives. We need more. From now on, we will always stay home.
We need more Walter White. We need more Jesse Pinkman. We need more Skinny
Pete. We need more of it all.
Is six o’clock in the evening a good bed time for the kids
during the summer? It is if you’re trying to get to season three as fast as you
can.
You guys didn’t get dinner? Um... here’s a bag of Cheetos.
Eat them in your room. G’night. Yes, I know it’s still daytime outside. Go to
sleep.
Why are you kids awake at five A.M.? Go away. Your mom and I
were up until two this morning watching our shows. You’re hungry? Go see if the
neighbors are having breakfast. You can eat over there. We need to sleep for
another five or six hours.
We have to rest up. We’ve got a long night of meth ahead of
us.
See you soon,
-Smidge
Copyright © 2015 Marc Schmatjen
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