Last night Mrs.Phlosphr and I went to our nearest neighbors house. Now Russ is a 75 year old ex-mason. He’s build like a tank. His arms are tree trunks and he’s basically fit as a fiddle. I’ve seen him lift a rock weighing easily 10 stone.
Thats beside the fact.
We were over there last night doing a little grilling with he and his wife. We are up on a porch over looking a small pond behind his house. There s a large Veggie Garden about 20 feet to our left. We all happen t be facing it. When my wife come out with…
“Looks like you guys have a skunk around here…”
Russ looks at his wife and she smiles and points to the corn…
In and among the corn is a huge, and I mean huge Marijuana plant with large droopy buds on it. Not little popcorn buds, but GIGANTIC huge buds.
Good God I said!!
Ruuusss - what the heck?? :eek:
And his wife Sara said it’s for her arthritis. And this year with all the rain it grew out of control. She said it so matter-of-factly. We both got a good laugh…to find out your elderly neighbors smoke pot is slightly amusing!!
No offense, but do you think it’s right to be broadcasting this to the world, when there’s enough information in your post to give your neighbors a very hard time?
Phlosphr, unless you’ve been very deceptive in your posts, I could probably identify you in a few minutes of web surfing. From there to your well-described nearest neighbors isn’t very hard.
Can you say for sure that there are no lurkers from your home town (or former students) on the SDMB? Are you sure they all bear you good will?
I think you are being at least mildly naive. Feel free to post stuff that could get you in trouble, but not your neighbors who have no choice in the matter. At least be discrete about it and change the names and professions to protect the innocent.
Once I was coming home to my folks’ house. As I approached, the next-door neighbour (a middle-aged woman, friend of the parents) glanced up at me, quickly threw down her “cigarette” (she is a heavy smoker) and run into the house. As I passed her house I couldn’t help but notice the “skunky” smell but passed it off as my imagnation.
Soon after my sister came home.
“Have you been smoking up, cowgirl?”
“Um, no, why?”
The smell. She noticed it too.
My parents deny it (“She couldn’t possibly!”) but have since come around to our side, by close observation of the behaviour and lifestyle of the neighbour. It does amuse me.
Of course, I live in Canada so it’s not a big deal now. (As long as she’s not growing it.)
Finagle - I did change the name. And yes I was a bit naive. But then you bring up lurking students. I’m not too concerned. But I will heed your advice…
Well, Phlosphr, just so’s your neighbors don’t have to sit in the pokey alone, my 73 year old dad smokes a doobie now and then. Cuz he LIKES it. No arthritis, no glaucoma. He just likes to blow a number with me and my middle-aged girlfriends now and then.
:eek: