Just say No...

Two people in the last week have asked me if I had been smoking weed. WHAT!?!

Now why would someone ask me that? Anyone who knows me even a teensy weensy bit, knows I have NEVER smoked weed. Heck, I didn't even know what it smelled like until my freshman year in COLLEGE. Yep, good 'ol ACU.

But I have never ever done it. I've seen it. I've touched it. But I have never smoked it. And I don't think I ever will.

HOWEVER, my new gum of choice apparently smells like it. Extra Sour Green Apple. Yummy.

I first tried this gum about 2 weeks ago. A pilot brought like 6 different types of gum, plus candy, with him on his trip.

Just FYI, pilots tend to bring treats as a way of bribing the FA's to come visit the cockpit. (No, not that kind of visit.) It's just as a way of enticing a new face and voice into the cockpit for a break from the monotony on a long flight. Gives us a break from the passengers as well.

But I digress...

I love pretty much anything sour apple, so I tried the gum. Yum. (ooh, see that rhyme I just made!) We're not supposed to chew gum at work, but it was either chew gum or have chicken breath. So I chose the gum.

So a few days later, I bought my own pack of this gum. I chewed it at the gym. I chewed it while I was working out with Jesus the Trainer. And he asks me what kind of gum I had. I told him. And he proceeds to tell me it smells like weed. Whatever. But no, he insists it's the gum.

Then, a couple of days ago, K asks me what kind of gum I had been chewing. And before I told him, I asked, "Why? Does it smell like weed?". And he said that yeah, as a matter of fact, it did. I told him Jesus the Trainer thought the same thing. But I did reassure K that I was not a druggie.

I cannot believe my yummy gum smells like weed. I hope no one on the plane that first day thought I'd come to work high. I can see the letter now (my reasons are in the parentheses)

..."the flight attendant appeared to have marijuana breath (from the gum)...And her eyes were red (dry environment)...And she kept snacking (6 small meals a day, people!)...".

Oh well. It's better than having chicken breath.