lemme see if i can recall it all correctly lol. it hasn't been that long ago time-wise, only about 12 or 13 years ago, but i've done so many drugs since then, sometimes the only memories i have are flashbacks. i think it was when i was 18, and a friend of mine asked me if i wanted to get high, so i said sure. he pulled out a pinner, and i still have no idea if it was good or what, just some decent schwag i imagine. anyways, we smoked it, and we were driving around, and i wasn't really feeling anything. then he told me that he had the munchies, so we went to a local gas station to get a couple hot dogs and some chili-cheese nachos. i was probably feeling it by then, but i didn't really notice it until i was walking towards the back of the store, where they had some tables off to the side, carrying my tray of food, and then all of the sudden, i tripped on the edge of a tile on a "smooth" tile floor. don't ask me how i tripped, cuz i have no idea lol. the main thing about it tho, is that at the time, there were two sherrif deputies sitting there, drinking coffee, and i tripped right in front of them, barely able to not spill my grub all over the damn floor LOL. needless to say, i was freaking the hell out when i finally got sat down with my friend, and when i told him what happened, he was barely able to keep from busting out laughing until the deputies left the store.
now, as far as concerts go, mainly now it just depends on the venue, and where you're sitting at. my 1st concert, which was the Music as a Weapon tour with Disturbed and Drowning pool (with the original lead singer, not the sucky ass one they have now), i blazed up, and so was most everyone else. i remember when Drowning Pool was on the stage, when they would set off the strobe lights during the show, there was so much smoke in the air that you could barely see the band from 30 feet away. on the other hand, i've been at this other concert, where you couldn't even smoke cigarettes inside the building, you had to go outside to do it, and they had people patrolling the whole place, looking for people who were smoking. so i would say it's not so much that times have changed that much at concerts, as much as just the world has changed, and some places are really on the lookout for it.