The guilt got him

Pumping iron in my parents’ garage always included Toker II hits between sets. One day the pipe went missing, and I figured I had simply forgotten to put it away and someone else had moved it. So I asked my dad if he’d seen it, and he said he hadn’t. I told him I was super bummed because I’d have to spend twenty bucks to replace it; a chunk of money to a jobless teenager in the 1970s. A few days later I went to workout and found a brand new Toker II in the box there. He never copped to it but I appreciated that he realized the significance of the TII to me and replaced it – even if the move was solely to alleviate the guilt of chucking my original pipe!