So I was remembering something I did a long time ago, that always amuses me, and thought I would share it to see if anyone had a similar experience.
So in my late teens and early 20's, I was fond of doing minor social experiments with the people I interacted with. I was also a regular cigarette and pot smoker at the time. This fact is relevant I promise.
So for those of you who might not know, when you smoke pot, either via a joint, or a pipe, it's common for the embers to die out, requiring you to relight them. I'm going to assume my pot smoking social groups are pretty typical in their behaviour. Commonly, when you smoke, the people will sit in a circle, or vaguely circle-ish form, and pass the pot around. If the type of pot is prone to go out, it's common to pass a lighter around with it. However it's also common, especially as you get higher and higher, to forget that the lighter isn't yours, and just unconciously tuck it away in your pocket as you pass the pot to the next person. Which leads to a frequent outcry of "who's got my lighter?" followed by a round of pocket patting as we all try to figure out which one of us pocketed it.
This was so common that I decided to test something out. So, I bought the brightest, loudest hot pink lighter I could find at the gas station. The result was quite amusing.
Not all, but many of the guys I would smoke with, I won't call them friends, because many of them were simply pot smoking associates, would get up from the couch, and walk across the room to hand me back my "faggety/queer lighter". This is of some note, as when you are high, you don't want to get up much if you can avoid it. They would frequently make some snide comment about my lighter, and want it away from them as quickly as possible. I would smirk, because the end result was that I always had my lighter while the rest of them would be stuck patting their pockets.
So yeah, make fun of me for my faggety lighter pal, I know where mine is at all times, unlike you.
Hah!
Oh, and not that it matters, but I figure I'll mention it for clarification/full disclosure/whatever. I'm a straight male, but I've frequently had gay friends, and even hung out with them at gay bars. This wasn't done to mock homosexuals in any way, and was simply a form of litmus test of those I associated with, on their comfort levels with things that are socially considered "gay".
So anyone had something amusing/advantageous like this? Where they used someone's prejudices against them to your benefit/amusement?
So in my late teens and early 20's, I was fond of doing minor social experiments with the people I interacted with. I was also a regular cigarette and pot smoker at the time. This fact is relevant I promise.
So for those of you who might not know, when you smoke pot, either via a joint, or a pipe, it's common for the embers to die out, requiring you to relight them. I'm going to assume my pot smoking social groups are pretty typical in their behaviour. Commonly, when you smoke, the people will sit in a circle, or vaguely circle-ish form, and pass the pot around. If the type of pot is prone to go out, it's common to pass a lighter around with it. However it's also common, especially as you get higher and higher, to forget that the lighter isn't yours, and just unconciously tuck it away in your pocket as you pass the pot to the next person. Which leads to a frequent outcry of "who's got my lighter?" followed by a round of pocket patting as we all try to figure out which one of us pocketed it.
This was so common that I decided to test something out. So, I bought the brightest, loudest hot pink lighter I could find at the gas station. The result was quite amusing.
Not all, but many of the guys I would smoke with, I won't call them friends, because many of them were simply pot smoking associates, would get up from the couch, and walk across the room to hand me back my "faggety/queer lighter". This is of some note, as when you are high, you don't want to get up much if you can avoid it. They would frequently make some snide comment about my lighter, and want it away from them as quickly as possible. I would smirk, because the end result was that I always had my lighter while the rest of them would be stuck patting their pockets.
So yeah, make fun of me for my faggety lighter pal, I know where mine is at all times, unlike you.
Hah!
Oh, and not that it matters, but I figure I'll mention it for clarification/full disclosure/whatever. I'm a straight male, but I've frequently had gay friends, and even hung out with them at gay bars. This wasn't done to mock homosexuals in any way, and was simply a form of litmus test of those I associated with, on their comfort levels with things that are socially considered "gay".
So anyone had something amusing/advantageous like this? Where they used someone's prejudices against them to your benefit/amusement?
