Mad with Reefer
A roommate story
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2 min readMay 13, 2021
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…