Good ol reefer madness. We had a refer madness party at my place with about 20 people in the early 70’s. My dad (silent generation, wwii etc) came down and it was hilarious, bottles and doobies disappeared faster than the speed of light in hiding spots. We told him weed smell was American Cigs. He looks at the TV and says you’re watching that documentary. I thought we were all gonna die, trying to contain the laughter.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He knew. He probably referred to it as a documentary to get you all spun up.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This. My dad is also Silent Generation and my sister and I discovered one day in the 70s whilst snooping that my parents were hiding their weed from us.

e: oh, also if you could ‘fool’ a wwii vet/survivor during the 70s by saying a weed smell was ‘American cigarettes’, he was definitely ‘fooling’ you. XD

[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Silent Generation people had incredibly good poker faces, if I recall correctly. Like, "find out their actual opinion ten years after they died and understand the humour" good.