Unclebaldrick
Well-Known Member
My wife's sister just broke up with this guy after 20 years.... so I feel like I can talk about him.
Last year in Hawaii was the first time I ever really got to know this guy. Turns out he likes to smoke some pot. I scored a bag of Sour Power on the big island. Fantastic stuff (thanks kids!). So I let him know and offer him some but he refuses because his girl friend (my sis in law) will get pissed. Separately, his girlfriend is telling me that she knows he smokes pot even though he smokes in the attic and really wishes he would smoke more. In fact, she found out that he actually grew a single pot plant in their back yard in plain view without informing her. Now the strange part about that is that the sole reason he grew the weed was because he is too cheap to but some quality shit. The guy's in a band so he has to have access. He's just cheap. Reaaaally cheap, like the second cheapest person I have ever met in my life. I am certain that the plant was the most amateur attempt possible.
So this whole trip, he and my sister in law are fighting over ridiculous money related shit. He won't let his wife order her own entree because that would mean he would have to pay for a full entree..... (mind you, this was a FREE trip to Hawaii! - a once in a lifetime family trip paid for by in laws) makes everybody walk four miles to save cab fare, etc.
And all the while, I'm forcing weed at the guy who continues to express his desire to smoke it. But he won't. I can't simply confront the situation as it would destroy the last remaining shreds of civility between the two. Instead, I just tried to orchestrate pot-worthy situations, easy in Hawaii, bra. Finally, all the kids (ages 30-50) are on a Maui beach watching a Maui sunset. I whip out a joint, light it, take a drag and pass it to him. I can see a flash of hope cross the face of his girlfriend. He refused the joint! So, surreally, I smoked that joint alone.
the question of why none of my three sister in laws smoked (or have ever smoked more than once) is a separate matter. Maybe it's genetics, maybe Nancy Reagan, but I long ago reached the conclusion that none of them should ever take drugs. It works for them. The total alcohol quantity at Xmas this year (10 people) = my beer.
But WTF? Have you ever encountered anything like this? The thing that really blew my mind is that he grew a plant for the sole purpose of saving money. He hid his occasional (an eight would have lasted a month for this guy) weed smoking from his GF of 20 years while growing in their back yard? Refusing a joint on some faraway beach? Oh, he never revealed his growing from me, that came from my sister in law - I was the 'honest broker' between the two, the only thing keeping open hostilities at bay.
Sometime's I am glad he refused that joint. I don't like to get high with assholes. After a little while, a couple walked by and their eyes got that mmmmmm look when they smelled the sour power. I offered, they accepted. So I didn't really smoke alone after all.
Last year in Hawaii was the first time I ever really got to know this guy. Turns out he likes to smoke some pot. I scored a bag of Sour Power on the big island. Fantastic stuff (thanks kids!). So I let him know and offer him some but he refuses because his girl friend (my sis in law) will get pissed. Separately, his girlfriend is telling me that she knows he smokes pot even though he smokes in the attic and really wishes he would smoke more. In fact, she found out that he actually grew a single pot plant in their back yard in plain view without informing her. Now the strange part about that is that the sole reason he grew the weed was because he is too cheap to but some quality shit. The guy's in a band so he has to have access. He's just cheap. Reaaaally cheap, like the second cheapest person I have ever met in my life. I am certain that the plant was the most amateur attempt possible.
So this whole trip, he and my sister in law are fighting over ridiculous money related shit. He won't let his wife order her own entree because that would mean he would have to pay for a full entree..... (mind you, this was a FREE trip to Hawaii! - a once in a lifetime family trip paid for by in laws) makes everybody walk four miles to save cab fare, etc.
And all the while, I'm forcing weed at the guy who continues to express his desire to smoke it. But he won't. I can't simply confront the situation as it would destroy the last remaining shreds of civility between the two. Instead, I just tried to orchestrate pot-worthy situations, easy in Hawaii, bra. Finally, all the kids (ages 30-50) are on a Maui beach watching a Maui sunset. I whip out a joint, light it, take a drag and pass it to him. I can see a flash of hope cross the face of his girlfriend. He refused the joint! So, surreally, I smoked that joint alone.
the question of why none of my three sister in laws smoked (or have ever smoked more than once) is a separate matter. Maybe it's genetics, maybe Nancy Reagan, but I long ago reached the conclusion that none of them should ever take drugs. It works for them. The total alcohol quantity at Xmas this year (10 people) = my beer.
But WTF? Have you ever encountered anything like this? The thing that really blew my mind is that he grew a plant for the sole purpose of saving money. He hid his occasional (an eight would have lasted a month for this guy) weed smoking from his GF of 20 years while growing in their back yard? Refusing a joint on some faraway beach? Oh, he never revealed his growing from me, that came from my sister in law - I was the 'honest broker' between the two, the only thing keeping open hostilities at bay.
Sometime's I am glad he refused that joint. I don't like to get high with assholes. After a little while, a couple walked by and their eyes got that mmmmmm look when they smelled the sour power. I offered, they accepted. So I didn't really smoke alone after all.
