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fifo

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I am not trying to offend anyone. I play in a band and am exposed to a wide array of people in smoking areas in mostly bars and concert venues. I don't really have any real work experiences or any close friends and I don't go to restaurants, so my experience in public is quite limited to people who are drunk or otherwise inebriated. In my experience, here is how those people at my shows react to my e cigarette, while under the influence:

Drunk:
-Make fun of me or just start laughing for no apparent reason.
-Offer to pay ridiculous sums of money in order to get my e cigarette.
-Are unable to understand that I am not playing a practical joke on them.
-Start talking about their grandpa/mom/girlfriend and how they have lung problems and get all angry/sad about their entire life history.
-Rudely grab it from my hands and put their filthy mouths all over it, and then start coughing uncontrollably, and accuse me.
-Try to explain to ME how it works, while being totally wrong and ridiculous.

Otherwise inebriated:
-Say, "Wow, you have just completely changed my entire view of the universe." and then stare at me like I'm a devil.
-Ask me, "Does your boyfriend know that you are a witch?"
-Say that I'm "smoking electricity."
-Think that I get all crazy and hyped-up on smoking these, because they honestly think that I plug them into an outlet and get "energized" from the electricity.
-Are completely amazed by the different battery colors, and think that I can create them on a whim, with my psychic brain-powers.
-Keep asking me if I am an e cigarette salesman, and ask me how much I make from it.
-Wonder how they can vaporize elicit drugs in it.
-Try to explain to ME how it works, and no matter what, this explanation always involves some sort of "alien technology".

On a side note, I was watching Avatar in 3D while vaping one time, and a bunch of stoned kids were so amazed by my magical device that after the movie ended they started to do all of the above mentioned things, taking up about an hour of my time. Then started to ask me advice about their lives...like I was a psychic just because I stumbled upon this and bought it...

And I told them that if they stare at a solar eclipse while wearing their 3D glasses, they would be bestowed with x ray vision and then they would have superpowers and be admitted into my secret club, which would allow them the knowledge to make an e cig of their own.

But always, I try to inform the public about them and I feel that I've converted many people, and I also feel like I'm in a pyramid scheme because that's all that I talk about, because it's the only thing in my life that I am super-confident about. I, 90% of the time, am a great spokesman for vaping.

Don't be self-conscious, be a spokesman! You could save lives and make friends!
 
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JKBonin

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-Try to explain to ME how it works, and no matter what, this explanation always involves some sort of "alien technology".

And I told them that if they stare at a solar eclipse while wearing their 3D glasses, they would be bestowed with x ray vision and then they would have superpowers and be admitted into my secret club, which would allow them the knowledge to make an e cig of their own.

ROFLMFAO

Thank you soooo much for a great belly laugh!!! :lol:
 

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But always, I try to inform the public about them and I feel that I've converted many people, and I also feel like I'm in a pyramid scheme because that's all that I talk about, because it's the only thing in my life that I am super-confident about. I, 90% of the time, am a great spokesman for vaping.
Hilarious! But you make a few really good points. Right now, we are the faces of e-cigs
Totally agree. While degree of safety can be argued, and convenience and reliability have room for improvement. I honestly feel that these things have literally the potential to save millions of people from early, painful deaths. And I try to stay well informed to spread the good word. I am the face of e-smoking, and I'm smiling and informed. It's important to me.
 

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Nice..I've never heard that before.

Hubby get that a lot. His stock answer is "nope. Can't. Doesn't get hot enough to activate the THC"
(Better, he thinks, to downplay this aspect, or we'll all be pulled over soon and have to have field tests on our juice ;)

Didn't you know that Smoke51 refers to a secret military base?

I :wub: this answer. But I think it's a "Secret Alien Vaping base" :D
 
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Hubby get that a lot. His stock answer is "nope. Can't. Doesn't get hot enough to activate the THC"
(Better, he thinks, to downplay this aspect, or we'll all be pulled over soon and have to have field tests on our juice ;)



I :wub: this answer. But I think it's a "Secret Alien Vaping base" :D
HAHA, if I was better with 3d graphics, I would so make a cool mini movie about that, lol.
 

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Hubby get that a lot. His stock answer is "nope. Can't. Doesn't get hot enough to activate the THC"
(Better, he thinks, to downplay this aspect, or we'll all be pulled over soon and have to have field tests on our juice ;)

I like that approach best. I too have had a few questions like that which basically ended when I told them that i didn't think it'd work in the slightest, and you'd probably waste/ruin both items in the process.
Oddly, most of the people asking about THC seem to be accusing rather than potheads looking for an easy way to get their buzz.

Putting illicit drugs off the table returns the obvious intention to the replacement of cigarettes, and people seem a lot more receptive to it.
 

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i see what your saying,most humans are dumbfounded when i smoke mine.


I remember playing a club in lexington in the 80s in a metal band,called the fuzz club?i think.there was a pink hurse out front with bulletholes in it,and a guy started shooting it at the end of the night,there was a huge fight in that club also.crazy crzy night.great memories of kentucky and my old metal touring days!:p
 
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