What person (especially a stoner) could possibly enjoy hearing those words?
Background: I'm 20 years old. My parents found out that I was smoking cannabis when I was 16, and they took it so seriously that I quit for good (well, 2 years...until I learned some of the facts about the plant, and was old enough to do what I wanted). I moved out of their house around the time I turned 19, and not long after my 20th birthday they talked me into moving back home.
So for about 2 years ago I started smoking bud again occasionally with friends. I quit smoking weed as a "solution" to my problems earlier this year (had a lot of them going on, I'll spare you the details) but I decided that the problem really had nothing to do with weed. I started smoking heavily about 2 or 3 months ago, and I've gotten really careless because I'm at the point where I don't worry about what anyone thinks. My parents have the view of "it's bad because it's illegal, and it can keep you from getting a job". That's all. They have friends that smoke, and they've done it before (my dad did it alot..still does sometimes...my mom tried it once and didn't get high).
Anyway. For the past few months I'd been really thinking of telling them that I smoke, but I didn't know how to bring it up. The more I thought about it, I decided it'd probably be best to keep it quiet from them, but not lie if confronted. Well, they used my car to take an out of town trip this weekend, and when they got back they told me that my dad found a seed in my car.
My first thought was "why the fuck did he say something? He smokes too...", but I didn't even mention that. They asked where it came from and I just said "it could've came from a joint, blunt, pipe, or bag. I'm not sure that it was even my seed". Of course they were taken back at how honest I was, but I didn't see a point in lying about it.
Eventually they asked the question of "how often do you do it?" and I lied. I told them that I only smoke with friends, and that I don't buy it very often at all. The reason I lied about this is because we're all chipping in to get the bills paid around here, and I don't want them to feel resentment because I'm spending 15-20 dollars a week on weed. Also, they don't even know about the money that I use to buy my weed usually, because I don't want any questions.
So after talking about it, and showing them how knowledgeable I am about cannabis (thanks to this website for a lot of that), they just gave me a long lecture about getting caught by the cops and stuff.
How did some of you other people explain to your parents (or someone else that you wouldn't normally want to know about it) that you smoke? I'm interested in hearing your stories.
