# Why come into class when you REEK like Pot? Do you think I won't know? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716 "2003-01-24T21:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/41 "2003-01-30T16:40:09Z")
I’ve got a whole system down that works pretty well. Bring baby wipes, they are indespensible. Get your fingers then your mouth clean, its amazing how much resin can build up on your lips and fingers, especially after a joint. If you can, bring a sweatshirt which you can later remove. Fabreeze is a wonderful product, spray liberally when done. Some strong spray for the car to cover odors, gum, and finally something for the eyes. Visine sucks, go for something desiged to treat allergy red-eye. Of course the hardest part is pulling off normal behavior. After years of practice I have it down pat, I can go just about anywhere and no one would ever know I was stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/42 "2003-01-31T02:09:13Z")
OK, **Bongmaster**. Just don’t become one of **Rilchiam’s** husband’s co-workers or show up in my lab class! So, **Phlosphr** –did he show up in your class yesterday? ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/43 "2003-01-31T03:23:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* (emphasis mine) > But **after his first experience** with the bud, he vowed that if anyone working alongside him was toking, he would refuse to work with them, and if he was gaffing or key-gripping, he would boot them off the set. Any fan of pizza knows that pizza has at least two “phases”: the hot pizza you eat for dinner tonight, and the cold pizza you eat for breakfast tomorrow. They both have their good qualities, and they both contain the same ingredients, but the taste and texture are so different that they may as well be two entirely different foods. The same is true of marijuana. The first few times you get high, the effect is completely different (much more intense, in some ways) from the high you get after you’ve been smoking, even just occasionally, for a few months. I won’t say he made the wrong decision–there’s a time and place for drugs, and it’s not at work–but he did make it for the wrong reasons. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/44 "2003-01-31T03:28:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\* > > Never, ever, under any circumstances wear wool whilst smoking marijuana. Wool keeps people nice and warm and it also has the tendency to hold in smells. YOU on the other hand wear the same, damn wool sweater when ever you come into my class and every time walk into my class you stink. Can you not see the way other people react when you come in like that. > > \*\* Yeah, what is it with those people and their wool pullovers? Potheads are always wearing the same damn wool pullover all the frickin’ time, and it always smells like a Blue Oyster Cult concert when they walk into the room. Dirty hippies through the ages: ditched the ideals, kept the stank. ---
**Author:** ![Josephus\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Josephus\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josephus_Ho)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/45 "2003-01-31T16:17:56Z")
You could just teach the class and collect your paycheck instead of worrying about some stoner. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/46 "2003-01-31T17:22:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Potheads are always wearing the same damn wool pullover all the frickin’ time, and it always smells like a Blue Oyster Cult concert when they walk into the room. > > Dirty hippies through the ages: ditched the ideals, kept the stank. Man, what are _you_ smoking? I own one wool sweater and I almost never wear it. I’ve actually known few potheads that wore them frequently. The vast majority of potheads I’ve known have dressed like the vast majority of non-potheads I’ve known. How about fewer bullshit stereotypes and more honest observation? Or is there any to be had? I mean, really, if your opinions on marijuana are this strong, it seems to me that the only folks that would come out of the pot closet to you would be people who are oblivious to their own pot odor and people who either want to piss you off or just plain don’t give a flying fuck what you think. Personally, I’m a clean, shaven, khaki-and-boring-shirt-wearing pothead who doesn’t give a flying fuck what you think. **Bongmaster** : Good tips! Fabreeze is a winner. I had never thought of that. Thanks. And ditto on the regular Visine, in my experience. The allergy stuff rules. ---
**Author:** ![nogginhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@nogginhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogginhead)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/47 "2003-01-31T19:29:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Josephus Ho \* > \*\*You could just teach the class and collect your paycheck instead of worrying about some stoner. \*\* Yeah, it’s just a job, after all right? I mean, you didn’t go through agonizing years of grad school, toadying to senior faculty, slaving to idiot reviewers abitrary demands to get stuff published, clawing your way up the promotion ladder to get tenure (or not), mediocre benefits, and a salary that’s like 50% of what you could have made in the private sector. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/48 "2003-01-31T22:40:10Z")
I don’t know how likely it is on the college level, but this could be a cry for help. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/49 "2003-02-01T02:51:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\*…I smoked may fair share of pot when I was in school. More than my fair share to be honest, but I usually never went to class stoned. \*\* Are you REALLY a philosopher? What is ther correct philosophical term (or psychological term if you please) for that kind of weasel language? Maybe your class is the only one he gets stoned to go to. You really have no idea. Maybe he gets stoned because he’s scared about blowing someting up in the chemistry lab. 😃 It’s not like he could destroy the building by misapplying his limited psychological knowledge. Judge his work by the same criteria you judge the other students, or admit that you’re too biased to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/50 "2003-02-01T20:58:20Z")
This reminds me of a high school incident - My high school had a rather complex system of allocating time-slots, which occasionally caused confusion - particularly when it was disrupted. As the result of a school presentation, the classes for a certain day were rescheduled - which caused the following mess-up: I had _just finished_ smoking a huge joint, in anticipation of a free study period and then the end of the day, when I was told - “you have Calculus today!”. I had totally forgotten that it had been rescheduled. Well, off I rushed off to class - totally stoned. Our teacher, a sad and stuffy little man, already disliked me intensely because I was in the habit of smoking pot outside his class when his window was open (his class being on the ground floor), secure in the knowledge that he was _so short_ he was unable to look out over the window sill to see me & friends smoking pot, but could hear and smell us. His petty, pendantic little ways, combined with an absurd sense of his own superiority, simply required this sort of retribution. I draw no parallel with any of the current academic posters, of course! 😉 Anyhoo, the teach took one look at me & he _knew_ I was stoned. No doubt I smelled, was red-eyed, etc. He knew, and I knew he knew. His turn for revenge! He could see I was high, and had no books with me & had not done my homework. Plus, Calculus was not my subject - I was never any good at it. So, why not start with some humiliation? “Aha! Why don’t _you_ go and demonstrate for the class the first calculus problem, please?” I grabbed my friend’s textbook and walked up to the blackboard - having no idea how to do the problem. Shit. However, as I stood there, I realized that the first problem was _exactly the same_ as the demonstration problem on the facing page! Only the numbers were different! Of course, the Teacher’s edition had a different layout, so the teacher didn’t know this … and I proceeded, stoned as I was, to complete the problem on the blackboard - perfectly. 😃 The poor fellow just could not believe it. He went over the problem very carefully - but it was right. The rest of the class had clued in to what was going on (and of course, they could see the demonstration problem in _their_ books), and began to snigger. Score one for the stoners. He ignored me for the rest of the year, and on the standardized tests at the end of the year I managed to pull off a B+. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/51 "2003-02-02T01:59:40Z")
**Malthus** , thank you for the amusing story. It would have been good any time, but today it’s gold. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716/52 "2003-02-02T02:17:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\ ***Malthus** , thank you for the amusing story. It would have been good any time, but today it’s gold. \*\* I know - a day of tragedy and loss. ☹ Thanks for the kind note! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-come-into-class-when-you-reek-like-pot-do-you-think-i-wont-know/150716.md?page=2)