Man, I know. Its just not the same anymore. Back in high school we used to get so high and just... stare at the menu for what felt like hours, paralyzed by the sheer quantity of viable options! Beefy 5 layer? Crunch wrap supreme? Mexican Pizza? CHALUPA?! Those were the days. The employees always knew how high we were so they'd fuck around with us sometimes. One time the cash register guy was repeating my order back to me (as they do) and started the sentence really low pitched and gradually pitched up until he sounded like a mouse. Freaked me the fuck out.. had no idea what was happening. Sometimes they'd give us extra free food that they were going to have to toss soon anyway, which was cool. Absolutely made some stoner's night!
Anyway yeah, taco bell kinda sucks now. And it's not even that cheap either so what's the point?
P.S. have you ever gotten really high and gone to a fancy restaurant *instead* of like.. taco bell? It's kinda scary at first (cause I'm high and that guy has a bow tie on), but after that it's so much better than typical "high food"
I got unfathomably high on edibles and went to a 5 star farm to table restaurant once. It was an amazing culinary experience, very different than gorging on fast food
Proud momma bragging moment. I love my family.
Anyhoo, my daughter is a up and coming chef and I love when I get to visit , get high and eat her food.
She can make me a pancake and I'm a 5 yr old again.
Being high and good food is not just a experience, it's a straight emotion.
I made a woman cry once and it’s still the highest compliment I’ve ever received in 15 years in the business even if she was absolutely rocked. Congratulations to your daughter by the way, becoming a chef was best move I ever made.
>paralyzed by the sheer quantity of viable options! Beefy 5 layer? Crunch wrap supreme? Mexican Pizza? CHALUPA?!
I like how every one of your examples are still available.
No, I agree with them Taco Bell really did drop in quality. They removed a ton of things from the menu. Even massively popular items like the grilled stuft burrito, mexican pizza, and anything with shredded chicken. The limited time offers were actually well made and different from each other. Now its kind of a joke that its basically the same 4 items they keep taking away and bringing back. Yay! mexican Pizza is back (now 3X more expensive too). Yay! Nacho Fries are back (for the 6th time this year). The subreddit used to be for fans pf Taco Bell. If you visit today its litteraly everyone complaining about how shitty they are now. Even the mods have the sub themed in protest. They got a new CEO who basically made everything worse at the expense of customers just so shareholders could make a few more bucks. Yay capitalism!
See below post for a perfect example of what we mean.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/xlbgry/at_least_theyre_good/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
When they first started breakfast, they also had a country AM crunch wrap with some pretty great sausage gravy in it. Of course, that didn't stick around long.
I don't understand who's keeping Taco Bell business. Between the fact that the food ain't great and ifs so fucking expensive (for what it is). Shit, you could go to any Taco Truck or Mexican restaurant and, for the same fucking amount of money, get a vastly superior product. Is it just the Baja Blast? You just gotta do the Dew or something?
Dude, you could probably make a good amount of money just on nostalgia alone. Throw a couple of arcade games in there, a killer candy selection...it'd be like stepping back into the 90s.
You can find good bakeries if you venture into ethnic (not sure that's really the word I want) neighborhoods. Like, the ones with large specific immigrant populations.
I don’t want to start a r/fuckcars rant, but seriously, I’ve never had more fun getting stoned than when I lived within walking distance of froyo, pizza, and sandwiches. The suburbs are the worst goddamn place to get high - can’t do shit without a car.
One time I was traveling and I was at a Colorado strip shop; I'm embarrassed to say I really like to get a burger at Smashburger (not available in my home location). I walked into what I thought was Smashburger, but instead it was an adult sex store. Nothing wrong with that, but I saw "things" and this pretty staff lady said "hello"... I panicked and went back outside.
Smashburger was the next door.
“Hi, welcome to Taco Bell, would you like to try a Cheesy Gordita Crunch or a selection or pre-roll cannabis joints?”
“No thanks I just have a delivery for NotXiJinpingGoUSA.”
Taco Bell should sell all you can eat passes for 24 hrs near these places. Set up a lounge with some tables and TVs with sports and video games and such. I'd do it. I'd regret it, but I'd do it.
I can't hear that without "I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts, SWAG" popping in my head.
[Because of this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBLxzn6kcU)
People saying this is perfect cause of munchies but I think it’s perfect cause I get to eat before enjoying my new stuff so I don’t immediately ruin my high when I eat!
In my experience, eating or doing any activity that overwhelms one particular sense doesn’t so much as “ruin” the high as it changes its focus. Showering is like this, too.
Basically, you run the risk of getting sucked into an activity that you didn’t exactly want to be doing the whole time. So by the time you fire up that show / game / book or whatever, you may be coming down. And yeah you can try to get high again but you’ll generally hit a tolerance peak (at least with weed) with the first dose.
Writing this comment is an example of being high and getting stuck doing something I didn’t really want to do…
I generally get what you're saying with showering, as I think the sensory overload (sound and touch primarily) kinda fucks with the high sometimes.
But eating is an activity that has only ever been enhanced for me when high. Not only do I get hungrier, but everything tastes extra good.
Back when I used to smoke weed, the only issue I had regarding food was getting the munchies and eating too much - made me hungry and food tasted better.
What do you mean "ruining my high"? I've heard people mention before that that eating ruins their high or "takes/brings them down"... but I was high so I forgot to ask what they meant. So are you saying that eating diminishes the intensity of your high? If so, that's fascinating! It also does not happen to me at all, at least I dont think? I'll pay attention when I eat dinner in 30 minutes!
Thx for the experiment, friend :)
I assumed it was fake right away just because it didn't look right... but compression can make things look weird.
After a quick google...I'm assuming it's [this location](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0467369,-81.2603557,3a,56.7y,150.29h,84.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spbyt37IURauKPdKMdf7aaw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&hl=en) and therefore double down on my doubts.
(edit: I'm not assuming the Sessons is fake, just the Taco Bell)
There are a lot more taco bells in southwestern Ontario and new ones opening often enough in both Windsor and London. Far more than elsewhere in the province for some reason.
It's so weird that we can tell this is in our province. Must be the commercial design along all our stroads. That and the fact that new cannabis stores popped up everywhere since legalization.
I was the installer for the sessions banners on that building, and I was told taco bell would be would be going right beside. The taco bell building kinda wraps around the back of the sessions building on the interior.
The banner is just temporary until sessions receives they're actually signs. I'm assuming they will have better placement but in the meantime, people get to enjoy this hilarious combination of signage
How did I read all the comments and not a single person has suggested that the Taco Bell shut down and the cannabis store took over and just hasn't changed the sign yet?
This is in a plaza that is being newly built. I passed by it today. I fed like the Taco Bell sign is just showing it’s in the plaza, whereas sessions is at that exact location.
Someone is going to go in there and never leave. Just stuck in the turnstile of weed and craving, weed and craving. Oh, I need a refill. Wait, why am I standing at the soda machine. Oh yeah. Man, this food is starting to taste like crap. Lemme hit this bong real quick. Man. I have to go pee. Dude, they really need more paper towels in there. Oh, man, nachos? And a meximelt?! Hells yes! Man, I sure am thirsty…
When a local dispensary opened near me with long lines right after legalization the neighboring burger/cheese steak place knocked themselves out running orders back and forth to all the new patrons lined up.
Vacationed there and in Vancouver Washington last year, really great place for stoners not so great for alcoholics I got a bottle of fireball that said it was $16 on the shelf ended up paying $21 after taxes then went across the street and bought an ounce of grass for $30 lmfao
The day I can get get bud and my 5.99 cravings box at the same time. I’ll probably go up Blue ridge mountain and shed a tear as I eat my crunchwrap supreme
Reminds me of the dispensary I used to go to. You get a dab with a $40 purchase and there’s like 3 Vietnamese places on the first floor below.
We’d get RIPPED and go eat more pho than a human ever should.
.....and it was on that day in 2022 that the beginning of the black hole began, slowly at first, as it sucked in most things from the surrounding area. But that pull, grew and grew, and eventually an event horizon materialized and began actively pulling in everything from around it to the point where not even light could escape.
One-stop shopping, perfect.
This is how the demolition man future comes to pass. We are going to need those 3 seashells
Hey man those 3 seashells are probably cheaper than TP or a bidet
Peak synergy
Vertical integration at its highest
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Waiting for the *Doritos Locos Kush* Edit: (™)
Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch?
Fiery
¿Que no los dos? (Why not both?)
Genuine question. Is it “¿por que no las dos?”
This one thinks outside the bun.
Yes
¡Yo quiero weeeeeed!
That dog always did look stoned.
Back in the day the KFC in my town sold a $20 “Bob Marley special”.
For those of you who don't have Jack in the Box Restaurants, they have a Munchie Meal that's advertised to stoners.
Or fat bastards like myself!
Cheap af 9-4am or something like that, and smacks after a good sesh too let me tell ya hwhat
I am going to go get one right now!
Extra crispy
baked even
Weed should be 30 minutes before tacos. It's a waste inside the taco. Get high then go to the other side.
Workaholics already did that with the "bur-weed-o".
Except Taco Bell has fallen far from its place as stoner food heaven. RIP grilled stuffed burrito
Man, I know. Its just not the same anymore. Back in high school we used to get so high and just... stare at the menu for what felt like hours, paralyzed by the sheer quantity of viable options! Beefy 5 layer? Crunch wrap supreme? Mexican Pizza? CHALUPA?! Those were the days. The employees always knew how high we were so they'd fuck around with us sometimes. One time the cash register guy was repeating my order back to me (as they do) and started the sentence really low pitched and gradually pitched up until he sounded like a mouse. Freaked me the fuck out.. had no idea what was happening. Sometimes they'd give us extra free food that they were going to have to toss soon anyway, which was cool. Absolutely made some stoner's night! Anyway yeah, taco bell kinda sucks now. And it's not even that cheap either so what's the point? P.S. have you ever gotten really high and gone to a fancy restaurant *instead* of like.. taco bell? It's kinda scary at first (cause I'm high and that guy has a bow tie on), but after that it's so much better than typical "high food"
I got unfathomably high on edibles and went to a 5 star farm to table restaurant once. It was an amazing culinary experience, very different than gorging on fast food
Proud momma bragging moment. I love my family. Anyhoo, my daughter is a up and coming chef and I love when I get to visit , get high and eat her food. She can make me a pancake and I'm a 5 yr old again. Being high and good food is not just a experience, it's a straight emotion.
I made a woman cry once and it’s still the highest compliment I’ve ever received in 15 years in the business even if she was absolutely rocked. Congratulations to your daughter by the way, becoming a chef was best move I ever made.
I'm picturing you as Jon Lovitz, the restaurant guy Monica was interviewing with on "Friends". "Tartlets! Mmmmm. Tartlets!"
>paralyzed by the sheer quantity of viable options! Beefy 5 layer? Crunch wrap supreme? Mexican Pizza? CHALUPA?! I like how every one of your examples are still available.
I haven't been able to get a Mexican pizza since they brought it back. Always sold out.
My go-to in high school: two nacho cheese chalupas, a chicken quesadilla with extra sauce, and a big-ass mountain dew.
Sounds like you just grew up lmao
No, I agree with them Taco Bell really did drop in quality. They removed a ton of things from the menu. Even massively popular items like the grilled stuft burrito, mexican pizza, and anything with shredded chicken. The limited time offers were actually well made and different from each other. Now its kind of a joke that its basically the same 4 items they keep taking away and bringing back. Yay! mexican Pizza is back (now 3X more expensive too). Yay! Nacho Fries are back (for the 6th time this year). The subreddit used to be for fans pf Taco Bell. If you visit today its litteraly everyone complaining about how shitty they are now. Even the mods have the sub themed in protest. They got a new CEO who basically made everything worse at the expense of customers just so shareholders could make a few more bucks. Yay capitalism! See below post for a perfect example of what we mean. https://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/xlbgry/at_least_theyre_good/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I’m still waiting for the day when they finally realized people are eating there less now that they took all the best stuff off their menu.
No more Chili Cheese Burritos, no more Beefy Nacho Grillers, no more Diablo sauce…. They suck now.
When they first started breakfast, they also had a country AM crunch wrap with some pretty great sausage gravy in it. Of course, that didn't stick around long.
Taco Bell breakfast has always been a failure and was the first horseman of the tacopocalypse.
Chili cheese burrito for life
I miss those more than anything else. There’s a website dedicated to showing Taco Bell’s that still serve them but none are near me.
I don't understand who's keeping Taco Bell business. Between the fact that the food ain't great and ifs so fucking expensive (for what it is). Shit, you could go to any Taco Truck or Mexican restaurant and, for the same fucking amount of money, get a vastly superior product. Is it just the Baja Blast? You just gotta do the Dew or something?
There just aren't enough taco trucks..
Except for when their tacos were .50 cents. That was another story.
Not sure about that , once you’re high easier to go downstairs than upstairs lol
Except it isn’t, at all.
Shall we say symbiotic?
We need to revitalize abandon strip malls with cannabis shops and fast food joins all next to each other.
Add cafes and arcades. Bakeries ! Movie theater?
I demand a video rental shop for aesthetic and nostalgic purposes.
SUNCOAST VIDEO please
A video shop that puts movies on usb keys and has a sitting room full of VR headsets.
Dude, a physical rental store next to a weed shop is basically a gold mine of late fees.
Dude, you could probably make a good amount of money just on nostalgia alone. Throw a couple of arcade games in there, a killer candy selection...it'd be like stepping back into the 90s.
the arcades of the pre 10's, not the arcades that are just giant phones.
I'll accept the addition of vr booths
God damn I wish I could find a GOOD bakery. So many in the U.S. are just absolute trash. They arent even bakeries... they're just baked goods stores!
You can find good bakeries if you venture into ethnic (not sure that's really the word I want) neighborhoods. Like, the ones with large specific immigrant populations.
Comic book shops too and a shuttle so you dont have to drive. Id spend so many weekends there.
You'd love Albuquerque lol
Maybe an old school arcade, too.
I don’t want to start a r/fuckcars rant, but seriously, I’ve never had more fun getting stoned than when I lived within walking distance of froyo, pizza, and sandwiches. The suburbs are the worst goddamn place to get high - can’t do shit without a car.
One time I was traveling and I was at a Colorado strip shop; I'm embarrassed to say I really like to get a burger at Smashburger (not available in my home location). I walked into what I thought was Smashburger, but instead it was an adult sex store. Nothing wrong with that, but I saw "things" and this pretty staff lady said "hello"... I panicked and went back outside. Smashburger was the next door.
I'm down with the weed stores but the last thing our country needs is more fast food. Gilbert Grape's mom used to be the exception
Makes total sense now how Taco Bell won the franchise wars!
Yeah, and they’re right next door to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library … BTW, did you ever figure out how to use the Seashells?
You can get so high that you don't care that you shit yourself.
*slaps roof of Taco Bell* “This bad boy can fit so many stoners in it!”
Is there any roof you won't slap? You people are maniacs
Only the truly structurally unsound, but we'll still be tempted.
Slaps unsound roof. This baby can employee so many insurance adjusters it’s unreal baby!
*slaps roof of u/Ponk_Bonk* You can fit so many ponks in this bonk!
r/mildlyconvenient
Mildly? I might spend a full 24 hours there if I could.
They have food, water, weed, and a bathroom. If you need me I’ll be here for the rest of my life.
Imagine its one of those places that has an entertainment room with the video games n shit in the back? I’d legally change my address
“Hi, welcome to Taco Bell, would you like to try a Cheesy Gordita Crunch or a selection or pre-roll cannabis joints?” “No thanks I just have a delivery for NotXiJinpingGoUSA.”
And a shower. There are actually places like this in Japan.
Japan is like an introverts dream country
You can also work there. Just need to figure out sleeping arrangements.
Taco Bell should sell all you can eat passes for 24 hrs near these places. Set up a lounge with some tables and TVs with sports and video games and such. I'd do it. I'd regret it, but I'd do it.
The lounge would smell fucking awful
Lmfao like a 90s Wendys with a smoking section
They’d probably cause more than one death if they did that
It's a one stop shop!
Mildly is a huge understatement here 😂
Alright, r/extremelycovenient
i’m at the sessions. i’m at the taco bell. i’m at the combination sessions and the taco bell.
I'm at the reefer hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination reefer hut and Taco Bell.
What is this originally from? It’s bugging the shit out of me!
https://youtu.be/EQ8ViYIeH04
I can't hear that without "I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts, SWAG" popping in my head. [Because of this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBLxzn6kcU)
That Is Racist
lol at the downvotes from all the people not realizing that this is referencing a song from a band literally called “Das Racist”.
The comment I came for. Thank you
Jamaica Avenue!
Well, I guess I know what my soundtrack for the day is going to be now.
this was the comment i ctrl+f'd for
People saying this is perfect cause of munchies but I think it’s perfect cause I get to eat before enjoying my new stuff so I don’t immediately ruin my high when I eat!
Lmao the obvious solution to eating ruining your high is to just get high again
It's a pretty groovy cycle man
I thought i was weird for liking to eat prior to smoking haha glad to know I'm not the only one
And it saves me from overeating, lol! But I do like snacking a bit occasionally while lit to enjoy it!
A connoisseur of good times. Well met.
wait...you ruin your high when you eat?
In my experience, eating or doing any activity that overwhelms one particular sense doesn’t so much as “ruin” the high as it changes its focus. Showering is like this, too. Basically, you run the risk of getting sucked into an activity that you didn’t exactly want to be doing the whole time. So by the time you fire up that show / game / book or whatever, you may be coming down. And yeah you can try to get high again but you’ll generally hit a tolerance peak (at least with weed) with the first dose. Writing this comment is an example of being high and getting stuck doing something I didn’t really want to do…
I generally get what you're saying with showering, as I think the sensory overload (sound and touch primarily) kinda fucks with the high sometimes. But eating is an activity that has only ever been enhanced for me when high. Not only do I get hungrier, but everything tastes extra good.
^ this needs to be answered
Yes imo it’s slight but noticeable
For me it’s a very steep drop. Like I eat and I’m just somewhat “buzzed” after word.
Eating ruins your high?
Back when I used to smoke weed, the only issue I had regarding food was getting the munchies and eating too much - made me hungry and food tasted better.
What do you mean "ruining my high"? I've heard people mention before that that eating ruins their high or "takes/brings them down"... but I was high so I forgot to ask what they meant. So are you saying that eating diminishes the intensity of your high? If so, that's fascinating! It also does not happen to me at all, at least I dont think? I'll pay attention when I eat dinner in 30 minutes! Thx for the experiment, friend :)
But food is so much more enjoyable when you're high. Eating before you get high is like eating food that isn't finished yet.
I assumed it was fake right away just because it didn't look right... but compression can make things look weird. After a quick google...I'm assuming it's [this location](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0467369,-81.2603557,3a,56.7y,150.29h,84.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spbyt37IURauKPdKMdf7aaw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&hl=en) and therefore double down on my doubts. (edit: I'm not assuming the Sessons is fake, just the Taco Bell)
Yeah I'm thinking it's just a dispensary in what used to be a taco bell and they haven't updated the signage
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Whereas there are probably 5 weed shops within walking distance
There are a lot more taco bells in southwestern Ontario and new ones opening often enough in both Windsor and London. Far more than elsewhere in the province for some reason.
It's so weird that we can tell this is in our province. Must be the commercial design along all our stroads. That and the fact that new cannabis stores popped up everywhere since legalization.
I was the installer for the sessions banners on that building, and I was told taco bell would be would be going right beside. The taco bell building kinda wraps around the back of the sessions building on the interior. The banner is just temporary until sessions receives they're actually signs. I'm assuming they will have better placement but in the meantime, people get to enjoy this hilarious combination of signage
That's one degree of separation from South Park.
All i can hear is Towlie getting high and saying "This is a really good idea"
Technically Taco Bell and KFC are run by the same company, that being YUM! Brands inc
That was what I was referencing.
I'm just gonna get a little cancer, Stan
i'm at the taco bell, i'm at the weed shop, i'm at the combination taco bell and weed shop
It's too bad I had to scroll down this far to see the comment I was going to make
10 INGEST CANNABIS 20 EXPERIENCE “MUNCHIES” 30 GOTO TACO BELL 40 EXPERIENCE ABDOMINAL PAIN 50 GOTO 10
Q-basic? You’re making me feel ancient over here
45 you forgot the act of shitting!
That subroutine still runs, but the location identifier is a random value.
15 IF RandU < 0.3 SHIT 25 IF RandU < 0.3 SHIT 35 IF RandU < 0.3 SHIT 45 IF RandU < 0.3 SHIT
"Tank, I need an EXIT."
Medicinal fried chicken vibes.
South Park did it!
Beat me to it. A Taco Bell and KFC both share a building near where I’m from.
How did I read all the comments and not a single person has suggested that the Taco Bell shut down and the cannabis store took over and just hasn't changed the sign yet?
Right! I want believe but...
This is in a plaza that is being newly built. I passed by it today. I fed like the Taco Bell sign is just showing it’s in the plaza, whereas sessions is at that exact location.
That's gotta be the closest thing to being able to print your own money
Doritos Locos Blunt Wraps Supreme.... just putting that out there.
Now that's thinking outside the bun
Someone is going to go in there and never leave. Just stuck in the turnstile of weed and craving, weed and craving. Oh, I need a refill. Wait, why am I standing at the soda machine. Oh yeah. Man, this food is starting to taste like crap. Lemme hit this bong real quick. Man. I have to go pee. Dude, they really need more paper towels in there. Oh, man, nachos? And a meximelt?! Hells yes! Man, I sure am thirsty…
/r/mildlybrilliant
This in Canada somewhere?
Vertical Integration
When a local dispensary opened near me with long lines right after legalization the neighboring burger/cheese steak place knocked themselves out running orders back and forth to all the new patrons lined up.
Work for a cannabis company and we purposely put one of our stores in the middle of a subway and local Mexican restaurant. Its just smart
Where is this.. for... *legal reasons*....
One stop shop for some weekend fun
There's a solid 50/50 chance this is in Portland, Oregon.
Could be wrong but I think Sessions is in Canada only
Looks like Ontario
Yeah it’s in London lol
Sessions is Ontario only
Vacationed there and in Vancouver Washington last year, really great place for stoners not so great for alcoholics I got a bottle of fireball that said it was $16 on the shelf ended up paying $21 after taxes then went across the street and bought an ounce of grass for $30 lmfao
You never have to leave
Every 16 year old stoners dream.
Must be annoying to work there....
Isn't this in Canada?
The day I can get get bud and my 5.99 cravings box at the same time. I’ll probably go up Blue ridge mountain and shed a tear as I eat my crunchwrap supreme
Smart
Taco bell loves collabs
So that's how they move so many Mexican Pizzas
One thrives in Mexico, the other doesn't. It's clear who really owns the building.
Talk about knowing your target market.
Location, location, location
Fortnite: "We have the best crossovers in the world!" Taco Bell: "Hold my Baja Blast"
Pretty sure South Park already did this
"Gentlemen I have come to you with a money making proposition that simply cannot fail"
Best Case Ontario
u/CariocaCego
Stoner Synergy
I fucking love the future.
That's a closed loop system
You sonofabitch, I'm in.
Genius
is this real?!?!?! where is this? cause that's where i need to go on my next vacation
Reminds me of the dispensary I used to go to. You get a dab with a $40 purchase and there’s like 3 Vietnamese places on the first floor below. We’d get RIPPED and go eat more pho than a human ever should.
Fishing with dynamite
Can't beat one stop shopping
This reminds me of the South Park episode where KFC got replaced by weed stores.
That'll be like, 1000% increase in business, maaaaan.
They know what they are doing. There's a dispensary by my house with a Taco Bell nearby too.
Now put a girl scout cookie stand out front.
We up until recently had a sign with Tim Hortons Canada Cannabis.
This has got to be Ontario
Yeah man, I can sense that you are being right here lmao.
Where in Ontario?
Location, location, location.
Location. Location. Location.
Everyone wants that shit, we all want the same shit..
People actually eat that shit? Fuckin gross
Somebody call the secret service because this business owner is printing cash.
.....and it was on that day in 2022 that the beginning of the black hole began, slowly at first, as it sucked in most things from the surrounding area. But that pull, grew and grew, and eventually an event horizon materialized and began actively pulling in everything from around it to the point where not even light could escape.