Is honesty consistently the best policy? I like to know that it is, but now I’m in a lot of trouble with my neighbors.
- It all started a couple weeks ago, when I let my son have a sleepover celebration to celebrate the end of the fall semester.
A handful of his pals from school brought sleeping bags over for a evening under the stars. I built a bonfire in the spacious backyard, plus provided them a cooler of snacks plus drinks. As the evening went on, I snuck around the side of the house to smoke some cannabis. I assumed the smell of the bonfire would eclipse the cannabis smoke plus that the kids wouldn’t notice. That was my mistake, because instantly the kids smelled the cannabis smoke plus came looking for me. I had a option to make – lie to them, or tell the truth. I explained that I was smoking a plant called marijuana, which a lot of people cherish but some people know is wrong. Although none of the kids knew what marijuana was, they all recognized the smell, which is what got me in trouble. One of the kids said “my mommy smells like that, does she smoke marijuana?” And then another one did, plus it turned out that most of the kids had parents who smoked cannabis secretly. Of course kids being kids when they went back cabin the next day they all snitched on me for smoking cannabis, plus said they knew their parents got stoned, too. Now all of the local pothead parents are mad at me.