The story I think is a whopper: He said he went to a Pink Floyd concert his senior year (he was 17) and two or three seats down from him, a cop in uniform was "holding a roach clip, smoking a joint." He said he just shrugged it off "Well, it's Floyd." First of all, since when do cops in uniform sit with concert goers rather than stand or walk around the venue? I have never seen a cop at a concert sitting with ticket holders, watching the show. They are in the aisles, at the back, in front, or walking around. If a cop was off duty, and just attending the concert, why would he be in uniform?

It seemed like Cruz was trying to show how tolerant and "hip" he is -- words like "roach" and "joint" just rolled off his tongue, as if they are part of his daily life. In reality, as his team tells it, he smoked pot as a teen and never again:

"Teenagers are often known for their lack of judgment, and Sen. Cruz was no exception," one of Mr. Cruz's campaign spokesman told The Daily Mail. "When he was a teenager, he foolishly experimented with marijuana. It was a mistake, and he's never tried it since."

The second story he told Kimmel seemed mis-remembered at best, and possibly made up. His first concert was a Men at Work concert in Junior high. He went with his mother. He said the only interesting thing was at one point she was looking down (as if they were in an upper section and she was looking at the people below) and she pointed out someone with long hair, and said "Oh, she looks really attractive." Cruz continues, "She turned around, this person with long hair, and she had a big mustache. And my mother went..." and he makes a gesture of someone really being taken aback.

That makes no sense. Why would someone point out a stranger in a crowd, whom they only saw from behind, and say the person seemed really attractive? His mother hadn't even seen the person's face. What was the point of this story?

He's a strange one.