Neither was I when I first started, but I knew what I liked.
Back in our school we had two groups - the Roll 'Em Rats and
the Bong Boys. I was an honorary member of both clubs, but preferred the latter.
Do not say the word "bong" in Las Vegas. How do I know? Several years ago, I got kicked out of two stores for saying it.
Long story made longer: In Las Vegas for a wedding. Bride is jonesing for clove cigarettes; being the good aunts that we are, my sister and I take off to get her a pack of clove cigarettes. If the bride ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy, y'know?
Walk into a tobacco store. HUGE display of bongs.
Me: "Wow, have you ever seen so many bongs in one place?"
Clerk: "Ma'am, you can't say that."
Me: "Say what?"
Clerk: "What you just said."
Me: "Bong?"
Clerk: "Ma'am, I'm asking you to not say that. If you say it again, I'll have to ask you to leave."
Sister: "Why can't we say that?"
Clerk: "YOU CAN'T SAY IT!"
Sister: "Sure I can. Bong, bong, bong."
Clerk: "Ladies, you will have to leave the store or I will call the police."
We leave the store, walk further down the street and go into a convenience store.
Sister to the clerk: "We just had the weirdest experience. We got kicked out of the tobacco store for saying 'bong'".
Clerk: "Ma'am, please don't say that in my store."
Sister: "Oh, for the love of pete, what's wrong with saying 'bong'?"
Clerk: "Ma'am if you say that again, I'll have to ask you to leave the store."
Sister: "Why can't we say...the...
word...?"
So, it is explained to us (mind you, without saying
the word) that if we enter a store and mention the unmentionable, we are implying that the store is selling drug paraphernalia and that.is.illegal in Las Vegas. Now if I had gone in the store and said "have you ever seen so many
water pipes or
hookahs or
narghilas in one place?" that would have been just nifty fine......because
everybody knows that water pipes or hookahs or narghilas would NEVER be used for illegal purposes whereas bongs are used only for the evil weed.
Man, the things you learn when you ask the right questions.