I spent 5 years living next to a crackhead. When I moved to another housing project, I lived next to a crack dealer for 4 years. I learned a lot about crackheads and crack dealers.
Here are some little known facts about them.
In the ghetto, there are crackheads. In case you didn’t know, crackheads are people addicted to crack-cocaine. Crackheads and the ghetto go together like Kool-Aid and fried chicken.
Crackheads get their crack from somewhere. That’s where crack dealers come in. I grew up in the projects. This means I spent a lot of time around crack dealers and crack addicts.
However, my experience had a unique feature.
I spent about 5 years living next to a certified crackhead. When I moved to another housing project, I lived next to a crack dealer for 4 years.
The hood is a terrible place to begin with. I can assure you that living next to hard drug users and dealers is a unique level of hell.
These are my observations, lessons learned, and experiences from living next to crack dealers and crackheads.
Crackheads are surprisingly functional
A lot of crackheads rob and steal to get drug money. There are also quite a bit who have jobs.
They use that money to fund their crack habit and to also keep a roof over their head. Not all crackheads want to get high in a crack house.
The crackhead who lived next door to me as a kid. My mom even occasionally let her babysit us. This brings me to my next experience.
Crackheads value drugs over money
The crackhead next door babysat me.
When I was 4 years old, I picked up a syringe full of heroin and squirted it. I thought it was a water gun. The crackhead was super angry. I remember my mom offering to pay for the lost drugs, but the junkie didn’t calm down.
I actually don’t remember the eventual resolution.
In the world of a crackhead, crack is God.
Crackheads sell their children to get crack money. Male and female crackheads will suck dick so they can get crack when low on funds.
No crime is too great or too low once a person has sold their soul to the crack devil.
Because of the last point, the crackhead economy is legendary
It’s common to hear someone in the hood talk about “crack prices” when referring to something inappropriately priced.
An object is in the “crack price” range when it’s priced low to expedite sale.
My introduction to the concept of crack prices came at age 5.
One day my dad parked his car outside and went through extra effort to put his Club anti-theft device on. I asked him why he put The Club on. His response was, “So some crackhead doesn’t steal my car and sell it for 5 dollars.” That confused me.
While 5-year old me didn’t know how much cars cost, I knew they were a lot more than 5 dollars. Once I learned that the rock is the most important thing to a crackhead, it all made sense.
Since then I’ve watched or been victim to this type of crackhead behavior on a few occasions.
I’ve known crackheads to break out car windows for loose change in the seats, ignoring anything else of value.
Once a crackhead broke into my apartment and only stole a jar of change and a cable box. The crackhead is extremely short sighted.
It’s only thinking about the fastest way to get just enough money to get high again.
Superhuman feats ascribed to crackheads are inspired by true events
Crack doesn’t ACTUALLY give a person super powers.
I joke about the crackhead superpowers, but all good jokes contain truth. What probably happens is crack changes their brain, allowing them to endure high amounts of pain
I’ve seen crackheads get hit by cars and keep moving. I once watched a crackhead fall a few stories and shake it off l like nothing happened. I’ve personally seen crackheads jump out of burning buildings and land in stride.
You also don’t really meet any fat crackheads. Maybe crack raises your metabolism, but it is likely just a symptom of the previous observation. Crack is more important to crackheads than food.
If you only have 5 dollars from the car you stole and sold, crack comes before food. Even if you haven’t eaten in days.
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