During the long, tepid summers of Brad’s youth he would often hang around the local ice cream shop.
This town was tiny so they didn’t even have a Dairy Queen.
They had the cheap knockoff version called Tastee Freeze. It was pretty much the same as DQ, selling ice cream treats, and burgers and fries. Brad would hang around there all morning long, eating snacks and killing time in the killer air conditioning. Back then not everyone had AC, so it was an extra treat as much as the ice cream was. He lives in a sizable town now, and is an adult so Brad doesn’t haunt the ice cream shop, instead he hangs out at the cannabis dispensary. His favorite cannabis dispensary is within walking distance of his cabin, and is open 5 mornings a week. Best of all, it has a smokers lounge on the second floor. The first level of the building is a big, sprawling cannabis shop, with aisles filled with every cannabis product you can feel. They even have a section just for farmers, with the device people need to grow marijuana plants at home. On the second floor they have the cannabis smokers lounge, or as they call it the “Chill Zone.” Here folks are allowed to relax, play games, watch films, vape, eat cannabis edibles, and basically have an enjoyable time. His favorite thing to do is to buy one of their cannabis drinks, preferably a fruit juice or seltzer, and then spike it with a flask of vodka he brought from home. Brad gets stoned and drunk all at once.