Your probably here because of the title of the post. I imagine most of your reactions are with one eyebrow raised and a mindset of politics in place. I'm sure you had this argument ready to put down for everyone to see and to go nuts on your opinions about this subject but, let me start off by saying that this is not a story with my opinion on marijuana. This is a story about my first night in my hotel in Boston. I didn’t put it in my original post because I thought it deserved a separate post. I mean, it was quite the spectacle and When everything happened I thought I was gonna be running out in my underwear with the hotel burning down. Let me start from the beginning though so you can understand and imagine what happened.

So after a long first day in Boston I had made it back to the hotel around 10 -11 p.m and I was pretty exhausted. I took a shower, changed into some sleepwear, turned on the television and ended up watching some reality TV show where they complained about their husbands and each other. The episode was about all these women going to camp to "solve their problems" and "work together". Yea ok. They all pretty much hated each other and wanted to rip each others throats out while they were attempting to put up their tents. It was quite amusing to watch them try and set up camp since I knew what you had to do due to experience in this field. They were doing everything all wrong and it ended up taking them an hour to put up one tent. Needless to say I got a good laugh in by the time the commercial was up.

Once there was a break I decided to go get some snacks. I was craving something sweet and I happened to want a bottle of water. Putting on my sandals and grabbing my key with my wallet, I headed out my room and down to the fifth floor where the vending machine was. I waited patiently while the guy in front of me bought his stuff. I stepped up, bought my snacks and water and went back to the sixth floor where I was staying. At the time I didn’t smell anything and it was pretty quiet in the hotel. Entering my room I ate my snacks, drank some water and then proceeded to go to bed.

Imagine the fire alarm at a school going off. Its loud, repetitive, and gives you a headache if your listening to it enough. Well at 3 a.m I get woken up with a loud and repetitive message saying "Warning, If the alarm goes off on your floor, please evacuate the building immediately". Half asleep and confused I got out of my bed as soon as the alarm started blaring through my ears. Within a minute I had realized what was happening and managed to throw on jeans , a shirt, and grabbed my essentials before opening the door. Nobody was outside. Not a single soul. Just the alarm making some music. I stood there frozen to the spot unsure of what to. The door next to mine opened and a women stepped out in her pajamas looking around sleepy eyed and one by one others stepped out. Nobody made any drastic movements to the staircase but we were all thinking if we should.

An officer comes around the corner and tells us that its ok and to stay where we are. There wasn’t a fire but there was something going on. They just didn’t know what it was. Standing there patiently I watched as the officer went to the doors and started knocking, asking the people inside to step outside. One by one she went and opened the doors. It became evident that they were searching for a source and I got to witness it all. The officer goes to the end of the hallway and all I hear is the door slamming. I turn my head and there's a couple with a backpack and running in a blind direction to get out of the supposed "burning building".  The officer notices them and catches them as they are trying to leave.

"Where you going?"

"The alarms going off, are we suppose-"

"No stay in your rooms, there's no fire"

The couple looks very much in distress. They look at one another and proceed to creep back into the room. The officer turns and goes to the elevator. The couple then comes storming back out and goes to the stares in a bolt. The officer, missing this scene, comes back and starts opening doors on the other side of the hallway. The alarm is still going off and I'm starting to get a headache. The residence that are in the building are all still standing in their doorways. The officer gets to the end of the hallway and is having issue getting one door open. Either she cant hear the people inside or they locked the door. One way or the other the officer was trying super hard to get it to open up. During the commotion the couple reappears and seems to be in a better state of mind. The officer sees them. 

"Where did you go?"

"we just went down and outside for a bit, to get some fresh air"

The officer tells all of us then to go back into our rooms and I'm thanking the heavens that I can go back to bed. I turn and the door is just shut when I hear "do you smell that?"

"Smell what?"

"It smells like marijuana"

Instantly I stop in my tracks. I think about the couple and their odd behavior. All of it suddenly made sense. They were getting rid of the evidence. I smiled. Those little liars but they got away with it. Nobody got arrested and nobody got escorted out of the building. Sometimes people can be smart even in the most drastic situations.