Chapter 2A Great Unwiring
Doug attended high school in the 1980s. In addition to this making him the “senior” member of the team, as we tactfully put it, this gives him some stories to tell from a different era. Here's one that his own kids find jaw-dropping:
He and his classmates were allowed to smoke in high school.
Actually, smoking was more than allowed. It was more or less enabled. There was a student smoking area with ashcans. It was marked on maps of the school.
Smoking was legal, after all, and one common argument was that it wasn't really the school's place to restrict it. People also argued that teenagers would smoke anyway. Why not give them one place to do it so there weren't butts everywhere on campus? Why not make it convenient ...
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