Klarinet Archive - Posting 000436.txt from 1996/05

From: Teri Herel <EnsHerel@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Cigarette paper: friend or foe?
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:55:44 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-19 13:05:02 EDT, KClarinet@-----.COM (Karl Krelove)
writes:

>>On cigarette paper, I carry it full time in my case--nearly got busted in
>>high school
>>when the HS principal came to observe the class. It took me TEN MINUTES to
>>finally convince the woman that I really WASN'T smoking on campus.
>>(BTW at my HS no tobacco products were allowed on campus)
>
>I've had teenage students who were too nervous even to go to a tobacco shop
>to ask for it. They've had to get their parents to go, or with their
parents'
>permission I've had to get it for them. BTW, have you noticed how hard it is
>now to find UNGUMMED papers? Only in the tobacco shops - the drug pharmacies
>and variety stores only have the gummed edges, which make me very nervous
>around wet pads.
>

I had a woman customer behind me ask if she could go home with me when I
stepped up to the register at a gas station and asked for five packs of
rolling paper! (I like to stock up all at once, otherwise I tend to forget.)

As for the glue, I simply tear off that edge before I use the paper. Takes
about three seconds.