You’re absolutely right that plenty of other things could just as easily stink up the neighborhood, but yeah, it’s the fact that it’s an illegal thing that’s the most annoying. On days where I’ve sucked it up and sat here with open windows (I really dislike the smell of weed, if that’s not clear-- but yay! Sunshine and spring!), I will stink of weed before the day is done. Once, I sat here with the windows open from 9-11, then went to lunch with a friend. The first thing she said when she walked up to me was, “Jeeeesus, why do you smell like you’ve been smoking up? Didn’t you just come from work?”
An annoyance, but now I can’t sit with the window open if I’m going to meet with a client at any point during that day. A personal problem, no doubt, but why can’t this dude smoke his chimney of weed in the privacy of his own stinky ass house, dangit?
I am 31. So more than half my life was in BC. I’m not saying pot wasn’t around. In hindsight I think my brother spent half his teens high, but it’s not like the whole place is a grow op and you’re required to light up before they will issue you ID.
Two guys in their late teens walked **past **my house smoking a joint, stopped briefly, and turned around to walk back towards their place.
The point at which they were standing outside his house was when he stopped them from walking back to their place by talking to them. Before that, they were walking past it. They were, by definition, moving along.
Sort of… My nextdoor neighbor’s house was the apogee of their weed-smoking-walk. As such, they weren’t just passing through, but ended up spending a disproportionate amount of time in the general vacinity of my house.
Is it too much to ask to be discreet about your substance abuse?
I’m not trying to be a dick here, despite this being the pit and my tendency to dickitude, but the first thing I took issue with was your contention that if they wouldn’t smoke in front of their house, they shouldn’t in front of your house.
They presumably smoked in front of their house, carried on smoking as they passed your house, and apparently stopped briefly in front of your neighbour’s house before carrying on to their house.
They were smoking in front of somebody else’s house, briefly, while your child couldn’t see them do it, and they couldn’t see your child, and that is indiscreet enough to pit?
Personally I’d be more worried about my offspring finding the pit thread and wondering how Daddy knew what the bad plant smelled like.
I would think that the kids would have at least been concerned that there could be a cop around. They had no way of knowing that the OP himself was not a cop. I wouldn’t have been offended at all or even made a comment to them. But I would certainly think they were being stupid. And, people: “discreet.”
