Go outside to vape, you’re an adult.
Or, run a Zyn-athon. When I was in high school, I used to be a model student. (I slept on a couch in the back of science class.) In my defence, I got good enough marks to get into MacEwan. But, behind that couch was an outlet, and the back desks were the territory of the students who vaped in class. I formed a sort of symbiotic relationship with them. They would use the outlet to charge their Juuls (remember Juuls?), and I would sleep on the couch. Since I slept on the couch, no one would come over and bother me, and by proxy, their resources essential to survival: vapes. Truly, a beautiful evolution of bad student participation. Fast forward to the present. I hope those guys are doing well. I — believe it or not —...
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