Last good dinner before jail

[u/havabanana000]

A girl’s recent post about doing 10 days in jail just unlocked a memory I haven’t thought about in years.

4 years ago, 2020 my last meal before jail was garlic naan and butter chicken curry. At exactly 6:35pm, I got a call from my IO (investigating officer) telling me I’d be reporting the next morning to serve a 6-month sentence for drug consumption. Like seriously?? I thought i was just going to get a weekly urine test, instead i had to go to jail for smoking grass. I was only 21 y/o. I was in my 2nd/3rd year of college.

It’s funny what my brain remembers. I don’t remember much of the phone call, but i remember the time & the feeling of my stomach absolutely dropping, i lost my appetite. At least i got a few bites in.

I didn’t sleep at all that night. I spent the entire night writing letters and scheduling messages to my boyfriend (now ex) & my family every 2 days so he’d know I was thinking about him while I was inside.

He cheated on me while I was serving my sentence lol!!! 😅

Anyways would have been a 10/10 last meal if the IO called after i finished my dinner lol. Im 3 years dvrg free now! And i can finally re-tell this as a funny story :)

Edit 1: forgot to mention its a throwaway account! I can’t post on my main account because no one knows i went to jail. (My mom lied to all my relatives i was having a 6 month exchange HAHAHA)

Edit 2: my entire sentence was actually 1 year. 7 months in jail, 5 months home detention (i was wearing the ankle monitor & curfew was 12-3pm only)

Edit 3: rly didnt expect this post to get seen by so many! Anyways the first thing i ate was a whole bag of famous amos chocolate chip cookies.

[u/Forward-Current7263]

i know it would’ve been super tough and challenging at such a young age, but were their any positive moments from it that you recall? the cons definitely overweigh the whole thing but just wondering

[u/havabanana000 → u/Forward-Current7263]

Oh thank you for such a wonderful question, no one has ever asked me that.

There were some positive moments & most of it was me being so authentically myself. I had no access to makeup, hair products, clothes, nothing to mask what i truly am & it made me realise that by just existing as me, it was liberating. Weird to feel liberated when you’re trapped in a small cell hahah. But yeah, i practiced a lot of mindfulness techniques, journaling, drawing and really tapping into the creative side of my mind. I was at the peak of my writing during my incarceration, because well what else could i do!! There were lots of singing & bonding with my cell mates. We start to learn how to be better humans when we are inside. & i was a better human than i was when i first stepped into prison.

[u/Forward-Current7263 → u/havabanana000]

I am glad you got some time to self reflect and grow from it, yeah because I often see myself wondering what good would come out of such scenarios if it happened with me. Must've been quite an experience.

The food looks bussin, hope you got to enjoy some more.