For the record, we were experimental and young J
One of the memories that I fondly look back on and laugh out loud at is our wee pot smoking experiment.
I had just moved back to Mum’s, Kylie had moved in with us too.
So Me, her and Tania were sharing the upstairs room.
We, me and Kylie had just started at a new school too, I was 17, Tania 15 and Kylie 16.
Because we were seniors, we tended to go to school after the first period had started, so when we decided to make a move…
This one morning, Dad and Mum had gone to work, and we were ready to go to school.
But we decided that we would get stoned first…hehehe.
Because we did not want to smoke the joint on the way to school, wanted to have the buzz wear off a little first before having to be faced with being in our different classes for the day, we decided to smoke it at home before leaving.
That posed a bit of a problem too, because the back yard looked out to the neighbours property and she was a bit of a spy, her kitchen window overlooked our back yard.
So we stupidly decided to smoke it in the lounge room and to leave a lounge window slightly opened to let the smoke out, and to spray the room before leaving to go to school with room deodouriser.
All sounded good in theory, Mum and Dad weren’t expected home for at least another 3 hours, and by that time the room would be cleared of any evidence…
So we spark the joint and share it around, we just finished it and there was a knock at the door.
We all look at each other and freak out and laugh in fear, and then we all go running up the stairs like a herd of elephants to check to see who it was out the stair landing window.
We saw a Housing New Zealand car parked out the front.
They knocked again, because obviously just pretending that no one was home wasn’t going to work as we had made so much noise with the laughing and running around in a panic.
We went upstairs to brush our teeth and get sprayed with deodourant, then came downstairs….
Then run upstairs again cos the lounge stunk of pot.
Tania said, don’t worry about the room, just open the door…I will take care of the smell.
Me and Kylie went to the door and opened it, I don’t remember saying anything, just letting the inspector in.
We followed the inspector into the lounge and what we saw had us in fits of laughter.
It was as if it was snowing in there.
Tania’s idea of sorting out the smell in the lounge was to grab the Talcum Powder and throw it all up into the air.
She was covered in a light dusting that looked like icing sugar, and the floor was covered in a heavy white dusting and the dust was still falling onto the ground as we rounding the corner into the lounge.
Me and Kylie had to hold in the laughter, to the point that we were letting out little bursts of air and had sore stomachs.
The inspector, thankfully was fairly young and just smiled at us, then went about checking each room.
At the end of the week, we hadn’t needed to have a meeting with our parents so we knew that we were in the clear, but that smoke of the joint created enough paranoia to put us off smoking pot.
Tania funnily enough wasn’t worried about it at all, and still to this day I am not certain whether she was panicked or had just done the Talc powder stint for a laugh. As she did have a wicked sense of humor and that is one thing I loved her for.