Misspent Youth Question

[knight errant00]

Weird question, but there's a wealth of life experience in this group, as well as people willing to help a Mego-bro out, so I figured I'd take a chance . . .

Anyway, I'm working on a novel where, at one point while trying to run down a clue, my lead character needs to try to buy pot from some questionable characters.

Problem is, I was the boring Clark Kent kid and have no idea how this would go at all (outside of what I've seen on "Starsky and Hutch" and "Miami Vice") in terms of what to look for, what to say -- what to *not* say -- etc.

I'm not going for full-on contemporary verisimilitude -- I just don't want it to seem completely fake.

If anybody can help me out with some details, please PM me. I'd be obliged.

Thanks!

[theantiquetiger]

Always ask the art teacher, they will hook you up!!!

[knight errant00]

Always ask the art teacher, they will hook you up!!!

HA! That would explain a lot, actually . . .

[Mikey]

I used to just walk over to people I knew who were sellers and say -- "dude, got any weed ?"

Most would say, "how much you want ?" and that was the introduction.

Nothing fancy like in movies

[sauce]

I'm sorry, I just smoked this thread.

[Bill]

I think you need to man up and go buy some pot.

[Riffster]

I think you need to man up and go buy some pot.

honest officer it's research for my book

[highquality]

If he's buying from "questionable" characters, he should probably know how to roll. They might test him. Everyone else would just buy from some dude living with his grandma in a trailer park.

He should probably not call it weed or grass either.

And definitely no high-top black Reeboks paired with a tie dye t-shirt.

[grayhank]

Just go watch the movie "Clerks" - Jay & Silent Bob are excellent role models.

[palitoy]

My buddy would always call his dealer and arrange to meet at Taco Bell.

Then they'd shake hands, exchange pleasantries, shake hands again and it was done. The first handshake was the twenty, the second was the dope, eventually they got it down to one.

This was the one thing he was good at.

[megocrazy]

honest officer it's research for my book

That excuse worked for Eddie Murphy and the transvestite.

[Mikey]

Somebody did ask me once ... "you're not a cop, are ya ?"

I said "no"

He said, "oh, ok"

Like if I was one i'd admit it

[Zemo]

Basically he just walks up or knocks on the door and says i'm looking for "Buds" or "krypt"
or "Chroic" if you want to be more realistic most of the good buds now individual names the the grower places on them. i.e blueberry, the cheese ect. Whatever he thinks is tastes like.
He will also say the amount in the same sentence. like 1/8 oz, 1/4 oz ect. And he will have to tell them how he knows they the Buds. Also lesser quality pot is called regs. Your character should stay away from this crappy weed at all cost!

[Zemo]

This thread reminds me of this Meatloaf song which I always agreed with.

"They got a file on me thats a mile long
And they say that theyve got all of the proof
That Im just another case of arrested development
Im just another wasted youth

They say that Im in need of some radical discipline
They say I gotta face the truth
That Im just another case of arrested development
Im just another wasted youth

They say Im wild and Im recklous
I should be acting my age
Im an impressionable child
In a tulmoultous world
And they say Im at a difficult stage

But it seems to me to the contrary
Of all the crap theyre gonna put on the page
That a wasted youth is better by far
Then a wise and productive old age
A wasted youth is better by far
Then a wise and productive old age"

[Hulk]

It goes something like this...

Dope Song

NSFW