This happened about a year ago. I came home from work one afternoon, and my wife asked me if I could sit for a minute and talk with her. I really didn't think anything was up; the kids weren't home, I had been busy lately, so I figured she just wanted to have some time to chat like married people. Cool.
Then she said: "I cleaned up your office today and found something that really worries me. Is there something you've been doing that I should know about?"
It was an alarming question, but as far as I knew I didn't have anything bad in there. Maybe some questionable porn history on the computer, but she had never had a problem with it before. So with as much inquisitive innocence as I could muster, I told her I wasn't sure what she was talking about.
She pulls out a small folding canvas case that I immediately recognized. It made me even more confused.
"What are you using these needles for, sion42x?" she demanded. I laughed. She scowled. "This isn't funny! What are the needles for?" I was still laughing and said, "You really think I have a drug problem?"
She got really upset at that point so I had to quickly explain to her that they were for mixing juices, that I needed them for precision amounts of different flavors. I showed her the flavorings and an e-juice calculator that showed measurements in the milliliter and microliter range. She sighed and mumbled "stupid vape shit" and stomped away.
tl;dr: wife thought all my mixing needles were evidence of a drug problem. Stupid vape shit ensued.
Not mentioned yet, but I admired how your wife handled a possible drug addiction, sounds like a ggg wife. :)
Yup digital scale, needles, lots of time alone... all signs of a chronic mixer.
I had a friend over who doesn't know I vape. Try explaining a table full of scales, needles, glass bottles and lab glass in the meth capital of the country.
When I first got all of my DIY stuff, I posted a picture of it all laid out all neat and organize. Guess I didn't think that twenty syringes all laid out nicely on a stainless steel tray with the caption "So the fun begins".
Lots of people were very confused/concerned and several people messaged me. I guess heroin comes in flavors like banana cream and blueberry now.
Just like many things I suppose, in the eyes of the uneducated or naive it looks like contraband.
Stupid vape shit
I mean heroin is ok if you only do it once in a while, right??
Another favorite "Stupid vape shit.." moment. "You bought another mod? Why do you need more than one?"
They don't understand...
Whether mixing by volume or weight, it always looks like you're making drugs. You've got syringes and needles; I have precision scales, beakers, pipettes. Not to mention the nicotine, which could easily kill someone.
I just watched some documentary about designer drugs and they showed a guy that made them in his home. It looked pretty much spot on just like my mixing station, right down to the scale.
unless your making 0nic, then you are are literally making drugs.
i just made my first bottle last week and it was 0nic. believe me ive got a long way to go but my setup is already looking very questionable.
i cant have anything shipped to my house due to nosy people so i had to get some syringes from the first place i could think of, the local big box farm supply store.
$3 for 6 3cc syringes isnt too bad a deal in my opinion.
This is totally funny because I had a similar experience today!
I brought most of my diy kit and liquids somewhere else for experiments and Science! today and I keep a few good quality 1ml pumps without needles (can only get the sharp ones locally and i'm too lazy to de-weaponize them.) It honestly took me months of using them to not cringe every time I held one.. Got some looks when I brought them out today with the gang! You really need those? They hadn't figured out the part of some reagents needing only minute amounts yet.
I'm glad I'm not you dude, because I would never have managed to resist pulling her leg about it.
-No darling it's for keeping it up at night It's your fault! It is the only way I can keep up with you! And for my rhoids so I can look ripped for you! etc.
I don't think it is ever possible to hide and injection habit for someone you are intimate with in the long run though..
Since it quickly gives you sores and scars anywhere a vein is close to the skin surface as the holes never get time to fully heal up. Guy I know hid his injection problem from the mother of his child by shooting it up near his balls. For a while. He was off the shit last time I saw him.(if anybody cares)
I've been watching local heroin junkies though they seem to be using completely different and larger volume pumps than the ones I have though which are all 1ml metric.
I get enough stigma from my constant dripping of cloud goo from glass bottles all day can't start worrying about syringes.... I some times need to fight the urge to say what the fuck are you looking at? It's just a scifi drug dispensing device from the future! I'm injecting lsd and super heroin straight into my eyeball right now.
It keeps me sane thinking them all as just jealous smokers. Nobody in my town ever saw a mech with a dripper before. Kind of sick of having to explain all these things to people every day by now and honestly it is when I tell them I mostly make my own juice it gets their attention for real....
TL:DR: Drugs and stuff are like bad.. or whatnot.
I always have this anxiety about my apartment -- I do most of my mixing in the lab but I keep all my gear on a dedicated table in my apartment, and it looks like a goddamn meth lab. They do inspections and I have so much paranoia about this, it's unhealthy.
dude just buy a small safe and keep it all in there. i really doubt they would have permission to look inside nor the desire to. just say its legal paperwork.
if youre really concerned about them looking inside, then buy a bunch of manilla envelopes and fill them with boiler plates and miscellaneous legal looking documents and put everything under/behind the stacks.
Hahaha man, we're talking a 6x3 table covered in mixing gear (plus several drawer organizers full of bottles of flavorings. I've got ~250 flavors and I mix a LOT of juice. If I could efficiently put it all away somewhere in my tiny apartment, I'd do it.
jesus christ.... and you still consider yourself armchair? haha. i haven't even crawled across the floor to get to the chair then. you sir, have the setup im dreaming of.
i just bought my first bottle of humco vg and some loranne flavorings so i could do some pure vg 0nic stuff for clouds and getting into mixing.
The exact same thing happened with my fiancé and her dad. She's in nursing school and her mom (a nurse) gave her some syringes to practice with on a orange. She ended up leaving them in her closet and one day her dad set her down and asked if there was anything she wanted to say, she says "no" and he pulled out a Baggie of syringes. He asked again if she had anything she wanted to say and then she bursted out laughing. This girl doesn't even smoke cigarettes.
I'm late to this, but when I first started DIY the place I ordered from forgot to include syringes and needles in the starter pack, so I contacted them and arranged to have them sent. To work.
They didn't put my name on the parcel, only the address. When the parcel got to reception they opened it, not knowing who it was for, to find a load of really suspicious looking syringes and needles.
That was a challenge to explain, and to this day that receptionist looks at me funny.
I have been caught in the kitchen breaking down bottles of 100mg nic while wearing a nato NBC gas mask with a 20G bag of Ethyl Vanillin powder of the counter. I don't have a respirator but have plenty of NBC filter canisters, so safety first. GF gave me a strange look, paused and said "if you are breaking bad, I want a swimming pool" then walked away. I found out it is hard to laugh with a gas mask on.