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Everyone’s Better
by Adam Zack — January 31, 2024
I would never be able to roll like her…
I learned a long time ago that every single person I know is better than me at something. Someone knows more about football than me. Someone ties their shoes better. Someone makes smashburgers better than me. (But not much better, I’m sure!). Someone is a better leader, a better manager, a better driver and brushes their teeth better. You get the point. I realized this when I was a 21 year old college junior and thought I knew it all. I was going to school in London for a semester in the winter of 1985. My roommate and I decided to take a bus to Edinburgh, Scotland for the weekend. The bus ride was one of those red-eye trips that left at something like 10:00 at night and arrived early the next morning. We were the last passengers to board the bus and there were only a couple single seats left. I sat next to this girl and Jeff sat further back next to some old lady. It was about 1:00 a.m. when the girl I was next to pulled out a pouch of tobacco and some rolling papers and rolled a cigarette right there on the bus. She was ready to light it (yes, on the bus!) and asked me if I wanted one. I didn’t smoke much – only sometimes late at night after too many pints at the pub – but I said, sure. I watched her roll it and hand it to me and we lit up. I still remember the headrush I got when I inhaled it. I asked her to show me how to roll one, which entailed holding the paper with one hand, pouring out just the right amount of tobacco and then, with both hands, rolling the cigarette while you lick the edge of the paper to seal the thing. After two failed attempts that resulted in spilled tobacco and something that looked more like a joint than a cigarette, I gave up, realizing that I would never be able to roll like her, and in fact, I realized that everyone on the bus was better than me at something.
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