Trip Home (21 of 22): Too much caffeine.

My one friend from home's mom is raising some of her grandkids, and though she's doing a great job, for some odd reason she lets them have all the pop they want, including a ton of Mountain Dew, even 4+ cans a day.

At a family reunion I was at, the kids were arguing over the last can of Mountain Dew, and one of them said they'd had 8 that day.

"Holy fuck," my one friend from high school who runs the integrated women's-homeless shelter was like. 

Then, after we talked about that and both raised eyebrows, she was like, "Seriously, eight cans of Mountain Dew?  You might as well have the kids each do three lines of coke and then go out and play."