I get that smoking cigarettes is cool. Maybe it's like your little flammable security blanket...and it's doubly important that you get one while you're drinking. I was just hoping you wouldn't have to do it around other people.
Heres the rub. You can't look cool, and there's far less need for a security blanket, when nobody is around. A lot of people will carry around their security and personality in a bottle or a glass, so maybe that's worth a try?
When you drink around others, you occasionally say something dumb, offensive or just embarrassing. When you smoke around others, you might say something smart, funny or just encouraging...but we're all still sucking in smoke by being around you, and we're all going to take that taste and smell home with us. That might just be all more memorable as we go home at 2 in themorning and have to take a shower before bed.
thanks for that...
I know you didn't like it the first time, but you thought that if you just stuck it out....it looks cool enough to make it worth it. You made it over the hump now you don't want to stop. I get that. It's like when you learn to play guitar and then bug everyone by constantly bringing it everywhere and breaking into song. You just can't help yourself.
I've seen more cigarettes thrown out of cars than all other trash combined. Would you mind throwing those in your ashtray, and then occasionally just emptying that out in a trash can?
I've driven in cars with someone smoking who either turns the car into a traveling bong, "I know you can get lung cancer just by sitting in the backseat, but I don't really care" It's like having someone eat an asbestos sandwich while sitting on your lap. Sometimes the kind ones crack open the window as if to say, "now you'll just get a little lung cancer to go with the cold you're going to get because now you're freezing...but I don't care because it tastes so good"
thanks
I want to smell like an ashtray - so smoke next to me, will ya?
I totally agree. You got a light?
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ReplyDeleteso how do you feel about statewide issues 4 & 5 on the ohio ballot? :)
I don't really care about the government changing the laws so that the Funny Bone will have to be smoke free...I just wish people would choose to smoke by themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt seems incredibly selfish...off the charts selfish, that people would smoke around other people.
but again...you can't look cool sitting somewhere by yourself
*yawn*
ReplyDeleteYou don't like people smoking.
I don't like offensive language.
Some people don't like PDA.
Other people don't like fluoride in the water and radiowaves in the air.
I'm over it.
You ingrate!
ReplyDeleteDo you realize how much I pay to smoke a pack of cigarettes? And I am willing to share that smoke with everyone around me for FREE! Let's see your free pop give-away match THAT! Why, I bet I can touch the lives of more people with a hard pack of camel lights than the funniest one-liner in weekly announcement HISTORY! Except for the one about the nun, the mushroom, and the guy with the marionette! Get it, ". . .well then I guess I'm ONE STRING SHORT!!!" Oh, that one kills me. Like my smoking habit. And the comment comes full-circle.
I stop breathing when people smoke around me. I have an asthma attack. And noone cares.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I went to a restaurant that allowed smoking was over 3 years ago. I had the nerve to open a window next to me because I was starting to wheeze. I didn't complain, just tried to fix things for myself. It was winter. A girl sitting with a smoker came over to me and asked if I could close the window. I said I won't be able to breathe if I close the window. She said "but you're making everybody cold". Her discomfort > my life.
I'm not over it.
most places are smoke free now. i don't think its rude to smoke in the places that still allow smoking. before you go you need to assess whether you want to leave smelling like smoke. if its not worth it to you don't go. if i went to a restaurant where i knew there was smoking and someone opened a window to let the freezing air in, i'd probably be ticked too. i don't think those girls were wrong in any way.
ReplyDeleteSmokers can do whatever they want, but I do agree that it is one of the rudest things you can do in a public place. I would never do anything in public that caused other people physical harm.
ReplyDeleteExcept get drunk and take my clothes off. You missed a heck of a party Friday!
Also,
ReplyDeleteI disagree you can't look cool by yourself. That's what's so great about smoking! Gives you a reason to be wherever you are. "No, it's not that I have no friends, it's that I'm just out here having a smoke by myself."
I speak for myself only here, when I agree c Murph that smoking, for me, is often a security blanket. Other times it's just awesome with beer.
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ReplyDeleteI always wonder what "this post has been removed by the author" means....
ReplyDeletedo they mean the author of the blog or of the comment?
either way - I just wrote a quick little note that probably wasn't very nice...and why would I post that?
If you're forced to be around someone smoking, that's one thing. You shouldn't have to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteBut, if it's within your power to leave the situation, then, by all means feel free to do so. If I was allergic to peanuts, I would ask if a dish was made with peanuts. Same thing with smoke - if it bothered me, I would ask if a restaurant allowed smoking and then not go there if they did. Eventually, if enough people cared and did that, the restaurant would stop allowing smoking. If not enough people cared, then apparently the people smoking aren't the ones with the problem.
That girl had as much responsibility to leave the restaurant if she's cold as I had to leave because of the smoking. And complaining about the window and continuing to smoke was a nasty thing to do unless your a rude jerk.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't too easy to say no when your boss tells you a client wants to meet at a certain restaurant (if you want to stay employed). According to your logic, I should quit my job?
It really irks me when people who profess to be Christian have no mercy. Deal with it is your message? Suck it up is your message?
Here's a question for you. It'll show your mercilessness. A child in my child's class is allergic to peanuts. If another kid has been eating peanut butter, licks his fingers and then touches something that he then touches, he could end up in the hospital or die. They've asked us not to send PB sandwiches or crackers to school. They can only ask us because there is no law yet that says people can't have peanut butter in school. My kid loves PB&J. Sometimes I can't get her to eat anything else. I would rather have her starve through lunch (and learn that she has to care about other peoples' needs too) than send a PB&J just because it's my right. It's called mercy. It's called caring for other people (it's in the Bible!). Let's legislate making people care about each others' needs instead of wasting our time worrying if "under God" stays in the Pledge of Allegiance.
If you can stand up for peoples' right to possibly kill another person because they have a bad habit or are too lazy to send a different kind of sandwich, isn't being pro-choice the same thing? I can kill you because I don't know you or care about you?
Mike,
ReplyDeleteyou've got to admit that's kind of a silly argument, "If not enough people cared, then apparently the people smoking aren't the ones with the problem."
so if you're in the minority and you care about something - you have a problem?
really?
I just think that it's a little odd that people are arguing from the perspective of "people need to serve other people." What they mean to say is "smokers need to serve me."
ReplyDeleteIf you are in a situation that you HAVE to be there and the smoke is more than just an annoyance, by all means - ask them to put it out. If they do, thank them and go about your business. If they don't, figure something else out. But if you can avoid the situation, either avoid it or put up with their smoke. Don't expect the world to bend according to your preferences.
It just bothers me that smokers are demonized for doing something that's legal just because it annoys other people. People get all uptight about everything. Smoking is kinda nice sometimes - I haven't done it in a year or so, but I'd like to think that if I'm in a place where I'm allowed to smoke, people would understand that I'm allowed to smoke and leave me alone. If they ask, I'd put it out. But I'd prefer that they didn't ask.