In his recent segment, John Oliver joked about Pixy Stix training kids to do cocaine and it reminded me that I used to do just that. Although I never used the straw, I just leaned in, closed one nostril, and went for it. I was in 5th grade, it made my friends laugh.
Here’s my pixy stix story from my youth. Went on a backpacking trip with the boy scouts. As I’m sure many of you know, when a group of boys comes together in the wilderness, their IQ drops a good 20-30 points.
Anyway, I was dared to lick some horse manure for a huge pile of pixy stix. Huge. I was about to do it when a scout leader came and blew a gasket on me. He was pissed. Went into a tirade about e. coli and everything. I’m sure he punished us somehow but I can’t remember how.