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John shut the engine of his 1997 Nissan Altima and pulled up on the e-brake. Instead of getting out of the car though, he sat and stared into the distance. His gaze passed straight through the house he and his wife had bought, how many years ago now? Who cared anyway. It was just another cookie cutter neighborhood filled with mundane people. And he was just another banal member of that caste.
Sitting in his driveway, he looked at nothing. The radio had shut off so he listened to nothing. Nothing entered his brain and for some time nothing stirred there either. His life had become so mind numbingly monotonous that he didn't even notice time passing by any more.
Not that there was anything wrong with his life. He had married his high school sweet heart and they were still deeply in love with each other. His job as a pharmacist, though not particularly exciting was fulfilling and the pay was respectable too. He went to church every Sunday and even participated in the choir occasionally. But at some point he had slipped into anonymity and become just another faceless brick in a wall of tedious, uninteresting boredom. And deep down inside that bothered him.
Not only was he smart, but he had a mind for solving problems. But his mind was completely unprepared for the part of his life that didn't have any problems to solve. And that was the biggest problem he had ever faced. That was what bothered him, not the fact that no one noticed him. He could care less about being admired or heroic. He just wanted a challenge.
A group of children passed, laughing loudly as they rode their bikes and skated on roller blades, and snapped him out of his reverie. Climbing out of his car he went inside to his family.
By the next day he had a plan. It was risky, but he didn't care. In fact that was what he had wanted wasn't it? A challenge, the opportunity to work his way through potential hazards and find ways to mitigate them. And the rewards were potentially enormous.
First he called his bank and told them he wanted to withdraw a large amount of money. He had to get special permission from the manager because it was all of their life's savings and the bank had limits on how much could be withdrawn at a time. He said that his friend was starting a business and he wanted to provide some support. It was the same story he had told his wife, and the banker bought it just as well as she had.
Next he called a real estate agent and asked about cheap property in the area. Then on his lunch break he went and visited the three cheapest places he could find. By the end of the day he had settled on a trailer home on the outskirts of town. It was small and dilapidated but had no neighbors for at least a few hundred meters and a tall chain link fence all the way around it, both of which fit into his plan perfectly. Plus he still had enough money left over begin his experiments. The easy way would have been to steal chemicals from work, but that was too risky. Every substance was closely monitored and controlled. He could have found a way around the system, but it was just easier to buy what he needed from the grocery store. Each night after work he went to his improvised chemistry lab and worked on a new mixture for a few hours. When his wife asked what he was doing he just said that his buddy needed a hand with the new enterprise.
Finally, after two weeks worth of experimenting he had several viable batches ready for experimentation. And it was a good thing too because he was basically out of money. The tiny pills were stored in prescription medicine bottles (which weren't tracked at work and so wouldn't be missed) and were labeled "1", "2" and "3" in the order they had been completed. There were supposed to be an intricate combination of uppers and downers, but without proper testing who knew what they actually did.
Now came the first real challenge for him. At least the first one that forced him out of his comfort zone. Where and how was he supposed to sell them? Even if he knew a drug dealer he couldn't pass them off without knowing what they did. But there weren't enough of them to just hand them out willy-nilly without delivering a serious hit to his profit. For a brief moment he considered taking them himself, but how could he measure their effects if he was incapacitated? And besides, the drugs weren't the adventure he sought, they were the means to that end.
So that Friday night he told his wife not to wait up for him and he went out in search of a guinea pig.
Sitting in his driveway, he looked at nothing. The radio had shut off so he listened to nothing. Nothing entered his brain and for some time nothing stirred there either. His life had become so mind numbingly monotonous that he didn't even notice time passing by any more.
Not that there was anything wrong with his life. He had married his high school sweet heart and they were still deeply in love with each other. His job as a pharmacist, though not particularly exciting was fulfilling and the pay was respectable too. He went to church every Sunday and even participated in the choir occasionally. But at some point he had slipped into anonymity and become just another faceless brick in a wall of tedious, uninteresting boredom. And deep down inside that bothered him.
Not only was he smart, but he had a mind for solving problems. But his mind was completely unprepared for the part of his life that didn't have any problems to solve. And that was the biggest problem he had ever faced. That was what bothered him, not the fact that no one noticed him. He could care less about being admired or heroic. He just wanted a challenge.
A group of children passed, laughing loudly as they rode their bikes and skated on roller blades, and snapped him out of his reverie. Climbing out of his car he went inside to his family.
By the next day he had a plan. It was risky, but he didn't care. In fact that was what he had wanted wasn't it? A challenge, the opportunity to work his way through potential hazards and find ways to mitigate them. And the rewards were potentially enormous.
First he called his bank and told them he wanted to withdraw a large amount of money. He had to get special permission from the manager because it was all of their life's savings and the bank had limits on how much could be withdrawn at a time. He said that his friend was starting a business and he wanted to provide some support. It was the same story he had told his wife, and the banker bought it just as well as she had.
Next he called a real estate agent and asked about cheap property in the area. Then on his lunch break he went and visited the three cheapest places he could find. By the end of the day he had settled on a trailer home on the outskirts of town. It was small and dilapidated but had no neighbors for at least a few hundred meters and a tall chain link fence all the way around it, both of which fit into his plan perfectly. Plus he still had enough money left over begin his experiments. The easy way would have been to steal chemicals from work, but that was too risky. Every substance was closely monitored and controlled. He could have found a way around the system, but it was just easier to buy what he needed from the grocery store. Each night after work he went to his improvised chemistry lab and worked on a new mixture for a few hours. When his wife asked what he was doing he just said that his buddy needed a hand with the new enterprise.
Finally, after two weeks worth of experimenting he had several viable batches ready for experimentation. And it was a good thing too because he was basically out of money. The tiny pills were stored in prescription medicine bottles (which weren't tracked at work and so wouldn't be missed) and were labeled "1", "2" and "3" in the order they had been completed. There were supposed to be an intricate combination of uppers and downers, but without proper testing who knew what they actually did.
Now came the first real challenge for him. At least the first one that forced him out of his comfort zone. Where and how was he supposed to sell them? Even if he knew a drug dealer he couldn't pass them off without knowing what they did. But there weren't enough of them to just hand them out willy-nilly without delivering a serious hit to his profit. For a brief moment he considered taking them himself, but how could he measure their effects if he was incapacitated? And besides, the drugs weren't the adventure he sought, they were the means to that end.
So that Friday night he told his wife not to wait up for him and he went out in search of a guinea pig.