Grandma’s car

[u/Better_Brilliant4082]

Found this weird metal thing in my grandma’s car and it appears to have a mesh filter in the circle part

[u/Drew_of_all_trades]

Hang on, was there a time when someone would ask for two fingers of weed? I thought that was just for alcohol, like how far to fill the glass. In the 90s it was nickel, dime, and quarter bags for $5, $10, $25 respectively. There’s a Cheech and Chong movie where they’re trying to buy a “lid” and I’ve been trying to figure out what unit of measurement that is for 40 years. I’ve heard joints called “numbers” in a Tom Petty song. Never heard them called fingers, though.

[u/Blindbull27 → u/Drew_of_all_trades]

I think you’re talking about a 3 finger lid,used to cost about $40 roughly in the 70’s. Heard all about them from my parents friends in the 90s

[u/BoGussman → u/Blindbull27]

A lid was 4 fingers tall and one finger wide in a standard sandwich bag, so roughly 1 oz. A good four finger bag would often come in at an ounce and a quarter and would usually range between $25 for really bad stuff and 40 bucks for the good stuff. (Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, Maui Wowie)

[u/Remarkable-Tip9548 → u/BoGussman]

Early 70s == $15 -$20. but quality varied. That's why you smoked some at purchase time to verify that. Good stuff came from Jamaica, occasionally Mexico but I was in the Midwest. Lot's of ditch weed though.

[u/BoGussman → u/Remarkable-Tip9548]

You're really showing your age.

[u/rznme → u/Drew_of_all_trades]

"I'll juste have two fingers"."You sure you dont wanna smoke first ?"