stoned experience

[petrone]

Back in the 90s, in the middle of a Dutch cycle tour, was staying in the hostel at Valkenswaard. The next day after checking in, I decided to cycle to Eindhoven to board a train for Maastricht. It was fabulous to pedal towards the station only a few kilometres to the north on a lightweight Dawes tourer without the obligatory luggage load and the delightful adventure of cycling an unknown route to an unknown destination on fast cycle lanes, partly through densely wooded forest in summertime heat. Reached the underground parking below the station and parked up the bike in the secure if slightly twilight environment, boarded a train for Maastricht and away I went. Because Maastricht is on the end of that long tail attached to the southern part of Netherlands, it made sense to fit in this day visit by train rather than part of the cycle route.Found a coffeeshop in town, had a good smoke, remember this is pre-internet,the only guide available to me was Rough Guide to Netherlands.At the time there were newspaper reports of dope tourists being turned away in Maastricht and I remember at one point a brief feeling of paranoia when sighting a group of motorcycle police at a crossroads up ahead when in fact they would be connected to traffic duty concerning an E.U.function. Anyway my day trip accomplished, I returned in the summer heat to Eindhoven, disembarked from the train and went to retrieve my cycle in the bowels of the station. The only problem, I couldn,t find it. If your,e familiar with these bike parks, yes they go on forever, are generally crammed with bikes on the ground and also racked up above. I continue to search, trying to be as calm and methodical as I can but no success. Eventually, trying to underplay my dread and panic, I locate a young attendant on duty there and pour out my woe. Initially he is quite puzzled but eventually he suggests searching THE OTHER storage depot at the other side of the station which is where I discovered the life-line that was my bicycle.

[worldcitizen1723]

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[Badonkadonk]

Nice stoned story. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

[nycht]

Nice one, that's a story to remember for both of you

I'd like to share one of mine as well. Better than creating another topic:

So one stoney night, I got hungry (surprise surprise). So I decide to cook some pasta. So, I took one pot (the utensil kind), filled it with water and placed it on one of those old electric stoves. Turned the heat on and waited. Time passed but the water wasn't boiling. I thought to my self that it's probably because of the old stove that takes time to heat up (I was used to using gas stoves and only recently moved in there). Some more time has passed and the water wasn't boiling, but I could smell a slight burned plastic odour. I ignored that and decided to wait a bit more. More time passes and still no boiling water and the burned plastic odour is increasing.
And that's when it hit me. I accidentally turned on the wrong eye, the one right next to the one I needed and the burned plastic odour was from the handle that was over the turned on eye. What did my genius stoned mind decide to do?
TAKE IT FROM THE HANDLE TO CHANGE ITS PLACE!
Yes, it burned me... and yes, I dropped it and all of the water that was in it.

[worldcitizen1723]

at least the water wasn't hot! : )

[CopenhagenCouple]

Nice one nycht, we have quite a few cooking related stoner experiences also. One was not checking how hot the lowest setting was on our stove actually was before trying (and failing hard) to slowly reduce a chicken stock overnight... Waking up to theS harsh stench of the now fully carbonized chicken and veggies burning, the smoke alarm wailing and the small kitchen in our dormroom completely filled with smoke taught usto check such things!

We had a friend a while back who would always come home drunk and stoned from a night out and decide to cook some pasta or reheat some leftovers, whereupon he would promptly fall asleep and wake up if the morning with a ruined pot or pan, and himself more than halfway to a serious smoke poisoning! We would tro to explain to him that it was highly dangerous and he should really stop, but dude was hangry when he got drunk and stoned so he would keep doing it...

[nycht]

Great story, thankfully nothing worse happened when you went to sleep with the stove on (even at the lowest temp)

Are you in university? I remember those stoney and/or drunky nights, made everyone hungry too but we usually ended up getting burgers, kebabs etc. as takeouts - less risk involved

[CopenhagenCouple]

..yup, well at least was a decade ago or more, the good memories are from back then

..and btw, the economics of a senior partyin hard in Denmark as well as the opening hours of fast food joints that deliver are way off in these cases for take out...

[Double Life]

..yup, well at least was a decade ago or more, the good memories are from back then

..and btw, the economics of a senior partyin hard in Denmark as well as the opening hours of fast food joints that deliver are way off in these cases for take out...

Hey Man,

Your recent posts give me the impression we've met before, maybe 10 years ago or so, if you are who I think you are then the initials PH will mean something to you. The old crew miss you and it would be good to hear from you at the other place.