Edina
More and more I'm finding that I dislike Edina. It's too wealthy, it's too concerned, and it's too full of too-secure parks.
Iowa was much the same way, but in Minneapolis, where I live, is a neighborhood full of people looking after their own skin, not mine. I never feel bad or in danger of getting caught when smoking weed out on my doorstep, or in drinking and smoking in lawn chairs outside. It's not murder, so who'd report me? I've only really felt nervous about smoking in Edina or Iowa. I hate doing it in cars, not because of some kind of risk but because of the smell that gets stuck in the car. For those of you with leather its alright, but with my car I've had the same mouldy smell in there from months ago when it rained with the windows cracked.
We get out of cars here to find a park to smoke in, but it's always so sketchy that I actually feel nervous smoking in such an exposed place. I mean, its a park, surrounded by trees on at least one side no matter which one you pick, but people are actually out looking for you when you smoke, they want to protect you from yourself. I'd rather they didn't and instead simply left us to smoke in peace in the out of doors.
In dorms it was equally ridiculous, but in this case the roles were reversed. In Minnesota, at the U I often witnessed people shutting themselves in dorm rooms and putting towels under the floor and all sorts of pointless stuff like that, because if they got caught it was a "big deal." In Iowa sometimes we used a towel, but I remember smoking in my room quite a bit with two exposed windows to the outside and the light on without really being nervous about it. When I smoked with Brad or somebody who had lots of people around them at all times it was different, then we had to go into the cornfields. What a strange system.
Edina is also full of these jockish kids that spend a lot of time and money on drugs and booze, and they're in fact quite ridiculous about it. They translate into most of the greek system people I've met: pregaming in a closet or bathroom or locked room so that nobody can tell they're drinking because they'd surely get caught by an older member that was about to go get loaded themselves.
So far in synopsis, I want the same system Japan has. Unfortuantely I also realize that realistically Japan is a more mature society than ours. European countries and Japan are fine with a drinking age of 18 or more or less no drinking age at all. At the very least I want people to stop caring, and start caring. If that makes sense.
Iowa was much the same way, but in Minneapolis, where I live, is a neighborhood full of people looking after their own skin, not mine. I never feel bad or in danger of getting caught when smoking weed out on my doorstep, or in drinking and smoking in lawn chairs outside. It's not murder, so who'd report me? I've only really felt nervous about smoking in Edina or Iowa. I hate doing it in cars, not because of some kind of risk but because of the smell that gets stuck in the car. For those of you with leather its alright, but with my car I've had the same mouldy smell in there from months ago when it rained with the windows cracked.
We get out of cars here to find a park to smoke in, but it's always so sketchy that I actually feel nervous smoking in such an exposed place. I mean, its a park, surrounded by trees on at least one side no matter which one you pick, but people are actually out looking for you when you smoke, they want to protect you from yourself. I'd rather they didn't and instead simply left us to smoke in peace in the out of doors.
In dorms it was equally ridiculous, but in this case the roles were reversed. In Minnesota, at the U I often witnessed people shutting themselves in dorm rooms and putting towels under the floor and all sorts of pointless stuff like that, because if they got caught it was a "big deal." In Iowa sometimes we used a towel, but I remember smoking in my room quite a bit with two exposed windows to the outside and the light on without really being nervous about it. When I smoked with Brad or somebody who had lots of people around them at all times it was different, then we had to go into the cornfields. What a strange system.
Edina is also full of these jockish kids that spend a lot of time and money on drugs and booze, and they're in fact quite ridiculous about it. They translate into most of the greek system people I've met: pregaming in a closet or bathroom or locked room so that nobody can tell they're drinking because they'd surely get caught by an older member that was about to go get loaded themselves.
So far in synopsis, I want the same system Japan has. Unfortuantely I also realize that realistically Japan is a more mature society than ours. European countries and Japan are fine with a drinking age of 18 or more or less no drinking age at all. At the very least I want people to stop caring, and start caring. If that makes sense.