I tried dip once. After losing the city final in football in junior year. Was showering, and a guy tossed me the tin and said have some.
Saw the coaches dip all the time, so figured I knew how to do it. Stuck some in the lip, and things were fine. Then this buzz hit me unlike anything I've ever felt. I though I would fall over in the shower or puke. Managed to get out of the shower, and sat down at my locker for 20 minutes waiting for the buzz to fade before I went to catch the ride home.
One more gross dip story:
I'm playing semi-pro ball this time. I'm a rookie on D-line, and for whatever reason, I was starting at tackle that year. I don't think I was good enough, but I loved it and went with it and kept my head down around the vets, who could have easily taken it out on me. Anyways, long bus ride home. The starting center loved dip...he was always chewing. Always had an empty bottle of Gatorade with him wherever he went to spit into.
Now, for most guys on the team, they knew he spit into gatorade bottles and left them everywhere...he chewed that much. And the vets were often kind enough to talk about it to most of the rookies. But this one bus ride home, everyone got good and gassed up at the post-game event at the bar in the other team's home town. We're all drunk, and loading into the bus for the long-ride home. We get in, and invariably, the vets start hazing the rookies. Do this, do that...all kinds of shit.
Well, they take this one rookie WR, and have him drink a shot of tabasco out of this fat lineman's belly button (it was either that, or get your head shaved). So, the kid drinks it, and his mouth is on fire, of course. So he goes running down the bus aisle, looking for a drink. Sees this bottle of gatorade in the stow-away area above the seats, opens it, and starts downing it. He turns and looks down (at the center) and says: "Hey Jim, why's this gatorade all warm and syrupy? What the hell's in here?".
That's when the life drains out of Jim's face, he dry heaves once or twice and his seatmate (we called him "senor"...a mexican kid who played DB) just starts roaring with laughter. Then it hits this kid (the WR) that he just drank some of Jim's tobacco spit. He starts high-tailing to the back of the bus to puke into the bathroom. But the defensive captain and middle LB (Stan) is standing there. He says "where you going rook...you're going to have to piss your pants before I let you in the john". Well, doesn't the kid just rear back and projectile vomit all over Stan, who is literally dumbfounded and shocked.
6 hour bus ride, the whole time smelling puke and tobacco spit.
Good times....
