Vaping is Hard
No one ever said growing old was going to be so painful!
Wait a minute, yeah they did. Everyone who had passed fifty five said it.
Still, Brad was disappointed that he was in so much pain. I mean, just because he turned sixty-five not so long ago, did that mean that every joint had to scream in agony every time he moved?
Yeah, I guess it did.
He sighed ruefully as he readied himself to stand up from his easy chair. It was because the chair was so damned comfortable and well-padded that it was so hard to get out of. He would happily have stayed there for the rest of the day if he didn't have to urinate.
He pushed with his hands against the arms of the chair and braced himself for the jolt of pain from his knees and then stood. He was almost embarrassed by the loud grunt he let out. He would have been embarrassed if he weren't alone.
He lived by himself in a one-bedroom apartment near the outskirts of the city. Being Toronto, it was expensive enough.
He shuffled to the bathroom, did his business and then settled into his office computer chair to browse the web. He checked his email and then started reading the news. He closed the pop-up ads one after another as they appeared with a frown but then paused over a half-page window advertising CBD oil. It could be had for the low, low price of just $25 per vial and was guaranteed, GUARANTEED to make joint pain more bearable.
He frowned deeply. He knew most of these ads were nothing more than click-bait but this one tempted him. After a long pause he selected it and a new web browser opened on a site that sold all kinds of cannabis products. After some perusing he was quite surprised to find they had a brick and mortar store just a few blocks from his three-floor walk-up.
It was just about two in the afternoon and he decided a walk might do him some good.
After he got there, he studied the front of the store doubtfully. Then with a shrug he went inside.
The girl behind the counter couldn't have been more than thirty. She was also very attractive, but then, Brad thought all women under fifty were attractive. She had a slender body with curves in all the right places and a sweet smile that immediately put him at ease. Of course, that was just a euphemism for, he wanted to fuck her, not that he'd ever admit to it.
"How can I help you?" she asked.
"Well," Brad said shyly, "I' um, saw an ad for this stuff that helps with, uh, joint pain."
"Joint pain," she said with a nod and a sly look in her eyes.
"Yeah," Brad said, "My knees are shot and it's hard to walk with all the stiffness in my hips."
"Oh!" she said, as if she were expecting him to say something else, "Of course! Joint pain!"
Brad frowned and sighed.
"What were you expecting me to say?" he asked gruffly.
"Oh," she said with a brisk shake of her head, "Nothing."
"Come on Missy," he insisted, "I'm not getting any younger and I don't have time to waste on word games!"
She sighed and stretched her neck to the side to look over his shoulder at the door.
"Okay," she said in hushed tones, "But if anyone asks where you heard this, it wasn't from me!"
"Okay," he said.
"It's just that," she began hesitantly, "When men like you, you know, your age, come in here talking about joint pain, they usually mean something else!"
"Like what?" he asked.
"Well," she said with a faint blush, "They mean they have trouble with, um, another joint."
"I don't get it," Brad said with irritation.
She blushed once more and then leaned forward close to his ear.
"They can't get it up," she whispered.
Brad's eyes widened and he pulled back sharply.
"What?" he asked in surprise.
"They can't do it anymore," she whispered once more, "Mr. Johnson won't get out of bed!"
Brad's mouth opened slightly and he swallowed hard.
"Do you have something for that?" he asked incredulously.
She nodded and leaned her elbows on the counter. She gave him a sly smile and gestured for him to come closer. He leaned his head forward and listened avidly.
"The good news for you is, it helps with knee and hip problems too," she said, "It's my own special recipe and it'll have you skipping down the sidewalk in no time and, well, doing other things as well!"
"Really!" he whispered.
She nodded and winked then abruptly turned to the shelves behind her. She didn't hesitate or waiver, just grabbed a dark-brown glass vial with a colorful label and placed it on the counter in front of him.
"It works best in a vape mod," she said, "But a drop on the tongue will do."
"I don't have a vape mod," Brad said, "Do I need one?"
"It works much better if you do," she said, "Wait one minute."
She turned away and disappeared through a door to the back and then returned a few minutes later. There was a box in her hand about the size of a coffee mug. She also had some batteries which she placed beside the box on the glass pane.
"I can let you have this one," she said and then looked furtively toward the front door again, "But don't tell anyone where you got it! I'm not licensed to sell these! If you pay me cash I can give you the oil, the vape and the battery for sixty bucks."
Brad looked at the box and squinted at the writing on the side.
"I don't know how these things work," he said.
"No problem," she said with a smile, "I'll show you everything you need to know!"
Brad agreed and paid her the money. Then she spent the next twenty minutes filling him in on how to use the vape, fill it with oil and then inhale from it.
She watched him suck on the tip and shook her head.
"No, not like that," she said.
She took it, pushed on a small button on the side of the device and inhaled a small amount of the oil. A small puff of wispy smoke blew out of her mouth and she grinned.
"Like that," she said.
Immediately after she inhaled the oil Brad thought he noticed her pupils dilate a bit, but she just smiled and held the mod against his lips.
"Now you try," she said.
He breathed in as she held the tiny button down with her thumb and then he felt the vapor whoosh into his lungs. Almost right away he felt a little tingle. The hairs on his arms stood up a bit and a pit opened in his stomach.
"Feel that?" she asked coyly.
He nodded and she smiled broadly.
"You take a haul off that a few times a day and you'll be moving like Van Damme in no time!" she said with a laugh.
Brad grinned and studied her face. Her cheeks were slightly flushed and he was not sure but he thought she was shifting her weight from foot to foot and squeezing her thighs together a little.
Then he felt his hard-on grow.
He looked down in surprise and saw it pushing against the front of his pants. When he looked up, he saw she was looking at it too.
"Told you," she said with a giggle.
She pulled a card from a small tray on the counter and handed it to him.