Bera-Bera aaarrrggghhh

Also called Beri-Beri

Make you Berry Berry Drunk

It cost about 50 cents a bottle and had beer (Pearl Beer) bottle caps. No shit! They were turned upside down but if you looked at the bottom it said 'Pearl', which was a beer brewed in my hometown of San Antonio, Texas. How the hell they ended up as caps for Bera Bera vino, beats me.

"Smells like shit, tastes like piss" (not that I have had either of those experiences, that was Spooks bag!) and stayed with you for days. If you took a drink of water you'd be drunk all over again.

Drinking Bera Bera on 3-day break had me going to work drunk.

The Trick Chief came by and said: "What's the matter son?"

"Bera Bera sarge, I can't keep my eyes open"

"Well here, take a couple of these."

He then reached in his shirt pocket and pulled out a little plastic cylinder with little round white pills with an X on them and gave some to me. I have since found out these are the notorious "white cross's" pure 100 percent Methedrine (speed) tablets the truck drivers Friend. I ate them and they hit my stomach like an A-bomb. For the rest of the trick I was wide awake and sick as a 'dog', copying dits with one hand while I puked into the burn bag. I made it through the shift but it was a bitch. One positive result, the old guys figured I had the 'right stuff'. So from then on, it was no more Norman N. Newguy.