As a stoner, one of the first things you try to determine at your job is whether or which of your coworkers may get high. Of particular interest is your immediate supervisor because they are the ones who will be watching and evaluating you while you work. To me it was always pretty easy to figure this out because you could tell with most people if you had seen them stoned and straight before. Most of my bosses who smoked were always more engaged with what you were up to when they weren’t stoned. The opposite seemed to be true when they were stoned because if they didn’t know whether you smoked or not, they got paranoid and avoided you as much as possible.
The day after my 16th birthday, I started working at a carwash where the boss didn’t get stoned  because my older brother already worked there and he got me a job right away. The nice thing about the carwash is that in addition to the $2.65 minimum wage, you also received tips. When you worked after school, the boss usually left around 5:00 PM and you were alone until you closed the place at 10:00 PM. Since weeknights were usually slow, you had a list of chores to do so you could get stoned after the boss left and tackle the chores.
After I had been working there a couple weeks, some of my friends started stopping by and we would get stoned and listen to some tunes. Soon a few friends started turning into many friends and before long we were having almost nightly parties at the carwash. We would throw all the empty beer cans and bottles on the roof so they wouldn’t be in the garbage can, which we thought was pretty smart. Sometimes when I was really stoned I would let my friends wash the cars and run the machine.
All of this came crashing down one day when the boss decided to go up on the roof for some reason. By this point there were hundreds of empty beer cans and bottles along with some empty liquor bottles up there. Needless to say, he was not happy because he had also found a package of rolling papers, which, as it turned out, led him to look at the roof. My job survived but the partying was over because he started stopping by on random nights and he knew if I was high when he stopped by so I had to stop.
Finding Out the Boss Gets High
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