Mad with Reefer

A roommate story

Mark Tulin
The Brain is a Noodle
2 min readMay 13, 2021

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Photo by avishek Udas on Unsplash

State College, 1977, was the setting. I shared a two-bedroom apartment with Les and Ray, two guys from Pittsburgh. Both had their flaws. Les had body odor, and Ray used to clip his toenails in the living room while we watched TV.

The problem. My roommates were potheads.

I knew they smoked pot before I agreed to share the apartment, but I didn’t realize how…

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Mark Tulin
The Brain is a Noodle

I escaped a therapy career to follow a dream. Poetry, Humor, Sexuality, Doodler, and Fiction — https://crowonthewire.com