so I just walked near a smoker and I can still smell it

[yellowdogintexas]

it was 2 hours ago.

I came out of the PetFood Store, (kitties need Thanksgiving Dinner too) and this guy was leaning against the wall outside the store, smoking. I gave him as wide a berth as I could but the damn stuff still must have got in my clothes.

I HATE THAT!!!!!!!

[bicentennial_baby]

1. ...

:popcorn:

[datasuspect]

2. welcome to flavor country!

consider that stink your passport.

[Redstone]

3. Oh, get over it, would you?

Little too sensitive, are we?

Redstone

[Floogeldy]

26. .

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Think Of The Positive. You're discomfort is temporary

Whereas his discomfort will be with him until he somehow, someway, finds a way to quit the habit he probably detests.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. So a car drove by me at the supermarket...and damned if I can't smell

the exhaust on my jacket. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

32. and I picked up my vacuum cleaner today and the restaurant next door

was cooking mexican food, and I still smell like a burrito:)

[mokawanis]

6. so I walked near a pet food store

to lean agains the wall and have a cig, when I stepped in this pile of cat shit! The smell must have got in my shoes. I Hate That!!!

[Maddy McCall]

7. What babies this world has created.

I can remember when smoking was allowed EVERYWHERE, except in church, unless you were Catholic, and then it was even allowed there.

I can remember riding with one of our car pool ladies, she in her robe and turban and drinking coffee and smoking a Kool as she delivered us to school.

I can remember people smoking in grocery stores, theatres, restaurants, at school events, ball games, and at town meetings.

Now, most of these places have been declared smoke-free. But that wasn't enough for the anti-smokers who seem to be hell-bent on having smoking all but outlawed, and I'm sure that they'd do that, if there were any chance that it would fly.

So this guy mentioned in the OP goes outside to smoke his cigarette, and still that's not enough for the OP. I just wondered how she would have handled the world of the past, where smokers smoked anywhere they damned well pleased. Even going outside is not enough...maybe smokers should all be banished to some distant island, where they won't offend any anti-smokers.

:eyes:

[datasuspect]

9. we live in the age of scolding nannyism

it's like "puritans gone wild"

there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many people out there that think the world was created JUST FOR THEM.

[DanCa]

11. The worlds gotten too nosey and pushy imo.

:hug: peace too you

[Redstone]

13. Dang, I don't remember anyone smoking in church!

But I do remember when you could light up in the grocery store, as long as you were past the registers.

It's still like that in Quebec.

Redstone

[Maddy McCall]

15. Not inside the actual sanctuary, but in the recreation hall.

Hi, RS. :hi:

[Redstone]

18. That, I remember. And the men all wore the same hat,

and parked their hats on the windowsills during Mass.

Maddy, m'dear, get yourself off DU and go enjoy your holiday, OK?

I'm about to do so myself.

Redstone

[Maddy McCall]

30. I'm going to do that, RS.

Got a few PMs to answer, and then I'm outta here.

:hug: to you and the Mrs. Hope y'all have a great holiday.

[Withywindle]

20. Seriously!

I'm only in my 30s and I can remember most of that well--it really only started changing the last 20 years. (Hell, in my old hometown in VA you could still smoke in the grocery store up until about two or three years ago--tobacco state, y'know.)

[salin]

22. In my first job out of college - folks smoked in their cubicles

Now it is such a distant memory that seems odd, but at the time (not THAT long ago) it didn't seem unusual at all.

[XNASA]

8. I'm going to a Smoker on Friday night at a Catholic School Gymnasium.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop smoking and drinking. And playing Poker.

[DanCa]

10. My dad smell like marlboro and fried chicken.

I can't eat at kfc without getting ill. Must be psychosomatic.

[Thtwudbeme]

12. Oh, what a load of crap. Dude, it's psychosomatic

or however you spell that.

Get over it. You are really not capable of smelling something that goddamned faint by the time you claim you are able to.

[Redstone]

14. You spelled it right.

And you called it right.

Redstone

[sniffa]

16. oh you poor thing

:cry:

[name not needed]

17. Poor you

You actually had to put up with someone doing something you don't like. Get over yourself :thumbsdown:

[mokawanis]

19. the way things are going

I'm going to have start a hydroponic system in my basement to grow tobacco, and hope no one finds out I'm a smoker.

[AlCzervik]

21. My God!! In America? please, let me lend you my fainting couch.

[sniffa]

24. weLL i never!

*faint*


:loveya:

[AlCzervik]

25. *snicker*

:hug:

[SoCalDem]

33. careful..don't bump your head when you fall

[PassingFair]

23. "so I just walked outside and it ...

was snowing. I HATE THAT!
People slip and fall, that sucks.
And the damn stuff got all over my clothes!

[dxstone]

27. Your story is simply too tragic to tell...

You should probably just keep it to yourself; at any rate, I'm quite sure that no one in the world will ever truly understand the incredible depth and character of it, the self-evident nobility of your sad and needless suffering, you poor, poor thing...
If only the cigarette smokers would all finally cease; then the world would be truly perfect at last.
Sob...
Now you've gone and done it! Now I'm deeply depressed!
And y'know, with that precise description you've shared, now I'm beginning to feel as if I can smell it TOO! WHOOO! What a STINK!
And now it's STAYING! It WON'T GO AWAY!
I'm going to have to go find some heroin, or a razor or a gun! This is simply TOO MUCH!!!
THANKS, yellow dog... thanks a LOT!
d

[Withywindle]

28. I KNOW *weeps*

That horrible stench...it's leaking over the Internet! I can smell it through my computer...


...oh wait....



that's my cigarette. :blush: Nevermind.

[datasuspect]

29. i was reading a seven part series about the genocide in rwanda

but the original post helped me put everything back in perspective.

[AlCzervik]

31. Stop!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: