My mum took one of my weed brownies and so I hid her car keys from her
I (20F) am a uni student so I live with my family during the summer. I had made some weed brownies back in uni with my housemates and took some back home with me. I put them in the fridge and just told my brother and stepdad not to touch them, lying that they’re a homemade gift for a friend.
My mum just recently came back from abroad in our home country (I’m the daughter of African migrants) and when she was gone I had been slowly eating the brownies without a worry. I realised only the next day after she had returned that the brownies were still in the fridge, but didn’t worry right that second because my mum doesn’t really like junk food, if you have ethnic parents you’ll understand what I’m talking about, so I thought she had just probably looked at them and moved on.
Turns out I was wrong. I went down that night for my bedtime brownie and found that there was 1 less chunk than the day before, I knew this because I counted them over and over every time I took one to keep track of how many I had left (anxiety lol). I asked my mum if she took one and she said yes. Now at this point it’s like 12am and my mum said she had to run errands at like 6am in the morning. The chunks are roughly 100mg each (I have a high tolerance).
My mum has never even had so much as a sip of wine. She’s completely straight edged and has never tried any substances before. She’s also on a bunch of medications due to her having fibroids and sciatica and kidney problems, her health has declined over the last few years and I didn’t know how the weed was going to interact with them so I managed to sneak a picture of her meds and do some incessant googling. I’m extremely lucky that she’s not on anything that interacts badly with cannabis from the research I did as that was what I was most concerned about.
At like 4am I went to the bathroom, and also took her keys and hid them in my room. She woke up and was very irritable and looking for them like crazy. I almost felt bad but I’d rather she cause chaos in the house than in the streets. I asked if she was okay, she said that she slept wrong and had a stiff neck but apart from that she was fine. Eventually she decided to forget about it and start cleaning the house (instead of going back to bed as it’s 7am on a Saturday mind you). I put the keys inside one of her many bags so that eventually she’d find them and think she’s just misplaced them. She found them at around 2pm and by this point she was ready to go back to sleep so win-win.
The reason why I didn’t tell her about the brownies:
My mum would have a heart attack if she found out that I partake in weed, let alone bringing it into the family home and her eating it without her knowing. She once crashed out over me having alcohol in my room, she thought I was secretly day drinking because my stepdad is an alcoholic. It was Smirnoff Ice (4% alc — practically juice).
My point is that all I’ll get from trying to explain it to her is a headache and some grey hairs because she can be dedicated to misunderstanding things and the whole thing will just have been pointless. So the safest and easiest option was to just pretend it never happened. This was like 2 weeks ago so I’m pretty sure I’m good. Took the brownies out of the fridge too.