I was at work and around 8:15pm I decide to take a 15 minute break, which I take in my car so I can listen to music and vape.
I’m pretty far out in the parking lot (employees are supposed to park at the back of the lot, but I’m the only one it seems that does). I’m jammin to some tunes and vaping with my car window open and a police car pulls in and parks in the spot behind me...then flicks on blue lights.
He comes up to me saying they have had reports of someone sitting in their car in the parking lot smoking m*rijuana and there’s an abnormal amount of smoke coming out of my window. I explain I’m vaping and he questions me about why aren’t I in the smoking area where everyone takes their smoke breaks and I explain that since I quit smoking 2 years ago, I can no longer stand the smell of cigarette smoke and asked if I was doing something wrong sitting in my car listening to music and vaping, where he proceeds to tell me that I am making myself look very suspect in distancing myself from everyone and then sitting in a cloud in my car.
I was a municipal worker (Code Enforcement) for 7 years and have nothing but respect for police officers, especially since I worked closely with them often, but seriously? Going to give me a hard time because I like to listen to my music and not be around a bunch of people that are smoking? I really just wanted to be like “Yeah, Chief...you got me...when I wanna blaze one I drive out to the middle of an empty parking lot and roll my windows down and light up to make sure I attract the eye of everyone in the general vicinity.”
I can understand needing to check out a call you get over the radio and appreciate that he must’ve been pretty Johnny-On-The-Spot to get the call and get there in less time than my 15 minute break lasts, but after explaining the cloud and showing him I was vaping, to still get the 3rd degree after the fact for not being in the smoking area to vape? I’m sorry, but
You're not drinking water are you?! You realize that stuff is found in antifreeze!?!
I’m pretty far out in the parking lot (employees are supposed to park at the back of the lot, but I’m the only one it seems that does). I’m jammin to some tunes and vaping with my car window open and a police car pulls in and parks in the spot behind me...then flicks on blue lights.
He comes up to me saying they have had reports of someone sitting in their car in the parking lot smoking m*rijuana and there’s an abnormal amount of smoke coming out of my window. I explain I’m vaping and he questions me about why aren’t I in the smoking area where everyone takes their smoke breaks and I explain that since I quit smoking 2 years ago, I can no longer stand the smell of cigarette smoke and asked if I was doing something wrong sitting in my car listening to music and vaping, where he proceeds to tell me that I am making myself look very suspect in distancing myself from everyone and then sitting in a cloud in my car.
I was a municipal worker (Code Enforcement) for 7 years and have nothing but respect for police officers, especially since I worked closely with them often, but seriously? Going to give me a hard time because I like to listen to my music and not be around a bunch of people that are smoking? I really just wanted to be like “Yeah, Chief...you got me...when I wanna blaze one I drive out to the middle of an empty parking lot and roll my windows down and light up to make sure I attract the eye of everyone in the general vicinity.”
I can understand needing to check out a call you get over the radio and appreciate that he must’ve been pretty Johnny-On-The-Spot to get the call and get there in less time than my 15 minute break lasts, but after explaining the cloud and showing him I was vaping, to still get the 3rd degree after the fact for not being in the smoking area to vape? I’m sorry, but
You're not drinking water are you?! You realize that stuff is found in antifreeze!?!
