The Ernest Chronicler

Prologue notes:

My teacher (we'll call her Mrs. P)'s mother and father are very "straight": they are adhearants of the law and I take it pretty conservative.  The mother loves gardening.  Mrs. P is maybe in her early 60s.

Mrs. P took a trip to Hawaii "a few years back" and wanted to get her mom some flowers as a souvenir.  A street merchant there was selling seeds to various exotic flowers and plants.  Mrs. P's eye was caught by a packet of Wood Rose seeds.  Wood Roses look like normal rose bushes except that the flowers look as if they are made of wood.

Mrs. P flies back home and gives her mom the seeds.  A while later Mrs. P stops over her parents house for dinner and notices a marijuana plant proudly displayed in the dining room.  Mrs. Payne asks what the plant is and her mom says "Its the plant that you got me from Hawaii".  My teacher then informed her mom that it was, in fact, pot.  Her parents got all flustered and tried to think of a fast way to dispose of it.  Her dad proceeds to take the plant, shove it in the fire pit, and burn it.  Pretty soon the whole neighborhood was filled with the scent of marijuana.

A few nights earlier, a friend had visited for dinner.  He happens to be a police officer.  He noticed the plant, but didn't say anything because he figured they had a good reason for possesing such a plant.  This is before pot became legal in Michigan (2008).

Today our class learned that Mrs. P went to the same college as and is friends with Taffy Nivert, singer in the Starland Vocal Band (Afternoon Delight)