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Stoner Spy: Overheard on a Seattle city bus, Source: http://www.mspy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MobileMonitor.jpg

The other day, I was riding a Seattle city bus. I was stoned and listening to comedians on Pandora through my headphones. You know, generally just minding my own business and having a good time.

Anyway, in between comedians, I heard a woman say to two gentlemen with whom she was speaking, “Did you smell that?” Now, like most people, if you just hear the phrase, “Did you smell that,” there is an almost knee-jerk reaction to figure out: a) what about that smell is noteworthy; and b) from where said aroma was emanating?

At this point, I paused the comedy but left the headphones in so I could listen with a relative level of anonymity. As it turns out, the “that” in this story was the sweet, danky cloud of cannabis coming from a street corner known for being a stoner haven. It isn’t that people are smoking in the streets and being dicks, it just usually smells like reefer around this corner.

The full conversation went as follows:

Woman: “Did you smell that?”

Man 1: “What? The weed?”

Woman: “Yeah, it’s terrible!”

Man 2: “That corner always smells like weed.”

Man 1: “I don’t know how they can stand it.”

Woman: “I guess if you do it all the time you don’t notice it.”

Man 1: “I don’t think you notice much of anything if you do it all the time.”

Here is where I chuckled to myself and unpaused the comedy, rolling my eyes behind my sunglasses. Just another example of the stigma that still exists. Maybe in time the novelty will wear off and we can just drop it as a conversation piece, but apparently not yet.

To be fair, I ride with these three people often and they are kind of judgey in my opinion (which I fully realize is kind of judgey). On today’s ride, “Man 1” spent 20 minutes speaking very loudly about what a giant waste of time and money electric cars are. Just to give you a clearer image. But hey, at least Seattle city bus drivers put lost weed into the lost-and-found centers for weedists to recover.

But I’m not too bothered, more amused. As Kenneth from 30 Rock would say, “Haters to the left.”

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