Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
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cof
A few pages back, several posters suggested a Forum just for oldtimers.
Do you want a thread or a forum?
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cof
It would be infiltrated by 19 year old trolls.
CJ-his reputation has been disabled wondered why, should have pm'd sorry.whatcha talkin bout?
i remember that. of course im still somewhat young. 30Hey Roseman, remember this ?
Great story. Back in the early 80's, I was taking the Amtrak from Montreal to Essex Vt. I was going to a buddies party who lived in Vermont. I had a few grams of Kashmir hash on me and kept it in my change flap in my wallet. anyways when US customs boarded the train to do their thing, everything went ok.....so I thought. After asking the standard questions, they moved on to the next people. About 10 minutes later, they came back and asked my buddy and I to follow them. In the dining car they asked me for my wallet and right away opened the change flap and found the 2 grams of hash. They searched the rest of our stuff and didn't find anything else. That freaked the shit out of me.How did he know about it? I never told anyone about it.They gave me a ticket for $50.00 and told me to pay it right away which I did.They took my hash and let me continue on my way to VT. There is no record of this at all because I have crossed hundreds of times since then and nothing ever comes up. I 've often wondered why but I don't take chances like that anymore.
Gosh, I thought I was sort of old at 42. Baggies were around when I started at 15 and sold depending on fingers (1 finger=$10, 2=$15 and 3=$20). All the seed you could stand and quite a bit of stem as well. Being in an "agricultural" area, I had a few connections that had good stuff every few months so I would stock up. We would smoke the Mexi dirt weed when the good was dry.
My parents did not smoke, but most of my friends' parents did and they would tell us of the old days while cringing at what we were smoking. Seems the older generation always had the good stuff...makes sense now as they were making their own I suppose.
Nice stories guys...ahh the memories.
Hey CJ
Wow I know the area you described in your amusing anecdote.
I obtained my first drivers license in Lodi, right off of Rte 17.
I lived (for a while) right off of good old Rte 3!
And not far from this locale, the following took place:
I landed a job with a moving company in the early 1970s. I remember getting to work a little bit early in order to not be late, in those days punctuality seemed to be a more important concept than it is now. (But I will leave politics aside…hahaha!)
Well I show up in the muster room awaiting my training job assignment.
I was told by the office manager that I was to go on a packing job with the head packer and that I was to learn from him. Well I dutifully followed instructions and got into the packing truck with “Hoss”.
Hoss was a big guy who was nicknamed after Hoss from the Bonanza TV show. This was a little odd I thought because Hoss was big, but he was also black! I grew up in a lily-white suburb and there was only one black kid in my HS and his name was (no kidding) George Wallace. I had very little experience with black people, and being the new guy, I was a bit intimidated. Well as we headed off to the packing job, Hoss pulled out a big fat joint and proceeded to fire it up. My initial response was to not partake, because I was supposed to learn how to pack and being stoned would not help me very much…I rapidly changed my mind when my nostrils took in a large quantity of second hand smoke exhaled by Hoss after his first long pull on the doober. What an aromatic delight! Wow, nice and tasty I thought to myself as I deeply inhaled my first draw. The weed was quite potent, and I was thoroughly buzzed by my third toke or so…what kind of a job is this going to be, I mused??……my mind was soaring and wandering in the stratosphere and I knew not how I could function.
Somehow or other I was able to concentrate and actually learn how to pack household items for a move. (The majority of weed in those days was sativa or I would not have been able function!) Hoss became a good friend and was an outstanding source for superior buds. I worked at the job for a few years and became pretty good at it…I became a commissioned packer and I actually got paid per carton for my work, plus I was able to earn tips as well. I made enough at this job to buy a brand new car for myself…A 1975 Honda Civic…I was determined to get a car that would get good gas mileage, I paid only $3400 out the door with a few options! Wow those were the days!
Cheap buds, cheap gas and no AIDs and no Internet… it truly was a different reality!
My dad was born in Lodi I think. I grew up in Ridgewood. I gotta say growing up in Jersey during the 70's was F'n Bomb wicked. We used to play you folks in football I think. Clifton was always a tough game as was Garfield.