burun wrote:
He had to show me how to use it, which heightened my embarrassment (because how many people over 30 have to be shown how to use a bong? not many, I bet) and after inhaling/holding the most violent coughing fit I have ever experienced descended on me. I decided to stick to sake.
Heh, I just turned 32 and I attempted my first bong hit a few weeks ago, and had to be shown as well. (I've always sworn I never would, but drunkenness and a case of the When In Romes [I was out of town visiting a buddy who just might be able to outsmoke Willie Nelson] compelled me to say what the hell--plus, I reasoned, how can I say I don't like it if I've never experienced it?) I was impressed that stoners could work something so complex. I asked my friend how it worked and he said, "Science." I attempted two hits and also felt nothing but the lungs like burning, but I was also fairly drunk and didn't know what it was supposed to feel like. I ask, "So, what am I supposed to feel now?" And my pal's girlfriend's like, "you know, like, everything's like, normal...." to which I immediately retort, "Oh, so you need it to feel normal then?"
I think her reply was something like, "well, you know, no, it's like, you feel, like, yeeeah...."
The non-stoner, for the win.
