And the verdict is…
A teabag.
The scene: TeenHer’s bedroom. A bagful of trash from the kitchen trash can has been retrieved from the dumpster and poured onto the bed. TeenHer’s story has changed, and now the new story is that she made up the bit about burned paper because Big Mean Mom wouldn’t believe her about simply burning incense. And also? She never said she put the stick in the bedroom can. She actually threw the stick in the kitchen trashcan.
Poor kid. She knew we’d emptied the can, and took the gamble. Whoops. After refusing to go through the trash, and refusing to tell the truth, and being reminded (maybe with a little less serenity than I usually display) that she isn’t the boss in this house, TeenHer breaks down. Says she gives up; the trash is too disgusting.
And says nothing. “Getting up the nerve to say something”
“You had four hours to make up a story. Be careful, and make sure whatever you tell us, you can prove.”
So. She was burning a Lipton tea bag. And threw it outside.
I know, right?
But M took her and the flashlight out there, and she produced the burnt tea bag.
Tea leaves. Because we’re out of incense. Um, OK.
I can’t say that I have any personal experience in this matter, but I did know this guy in college who was desperate and tried to smoke either tea, or catnip (or both?). It did not produce any such desired effects.
I have never heard of kids trying to smoke tea bags (especially in tea bag form) — but I haven’t been 12 in a long time, and don’t have any children, so I don’t know what kids are doing these days!
At least it wasn’t rolled into a joint?
i dont get it? how do you smoke a tea bag???
yea how do you smoke a tea bag
By cutting open the teabag and pouring the contents into a rolled form of the tea bag paper container.
Kind of, in essence, like a joint.