#that man makes his own booze smokes weed chews tobacco and hates everyone

[batwynn]

Remembering that time when I was five and didn’t even know filters existed—never mind knowing how to stop talking—and I was out with my grandmother (divorced from my grandfather) having a lovely day in a lovely little Maine town in the 90s.

The thing about Maine in the 90s was certain things like smoking weed was illegal across the country and generally frowned upon, but Mainers simply Did Not Care and more than happily grew and smoked pot anyway. The other thing about Maine is most of those Lovely Little Towns are constantly full of out of state tourists coming to buy kitch and eat lobster. These tourists tended to be from states that generally did not have the same attitude about pot as Mainers did. It was still considered a Very Bad Thing To Do.

So when my five year old self saw an older gentleman smoking a classic tobacco pipe amongst a crowd of tourists I remarked, on the top of my lungs, that my grandfather had a pipe too! Not that kind of pipe, though!

There was literally a beat of shocked silence before my grandmother laughed a little too loudly and said something about it being a different color or some nonsense. Of course no one, like, ratted out my five-year-old self and my grandfather out to the police for that. But there were definitely some shocked button-upped folks in that lovely little town that day.

Anyway, that was the one and only time I was a snitch.

#memories #snitches get stitches #maybe don’t reveal your deep drug secrets to a five year old with ADHD #lol #anyway #tw: drug use #tw: drugs #tw: pot #seriously though Maine is like mountain people brain #and yet we get the whitest puritan ass tourists sometimes #they didn’t mix very well #but oh the charming old fisher man #le te da #that man makes his own booze smokes weed chews tobacco and hates everyone #anyway again #it’s legal now in Maine #so all those old men in the woods are probably making something else now #oh wait they are it’s fucking fentanyl