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Old 08-12-2008, 02:54 PM   #1
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Smoke

Standing outside on a smoke break in a designated area, some lady driving by stops her car and rolls down her window to yell at me:

Lady:
"You shouldn't be smoking here, it stinks up the place!"

Me:
"Is that an electric car?"

Lady: (annoyed that I seem to be changing the subject)
"No!"

Me:
"Then shut up."

Lady drives off with pissed-off look.

GOD, that felt good! I almost needed another cigarette after that! lol!!!

I hate smoke crusaders.
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Old 08-12-2008, 03:08 PM   #2
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That's genius. Well done.
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Old 08-12-2008, 04:57 PM   #3
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Bravo, Sheldon! I am a non smoker, but some of them just get fucking nuts. I mean, you were OUTSIDE! Ridiculous.
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Old 08-12-2008, 05:11 PM   #4
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Quote:
Centennial mulls smoking ban
Castle Ridge fire raises safety concern at Aspen condo complex


Carolyn Sackariason
The Aspen Times
Aspen CO, Colorado

AASPEN — The governing board that oversees the Centennial condominiums in Aspen is moving forward with a property-wide smoking ban.

The homeowners’ association board of directors, which represents 92 condominium owners at Centennial, voted on Tuesday to have its attorney, Fred Peirce, draft language that bans smoking. The preliminary document will be reviewed by the board at its next meeting.

The board also seeks from Peirce legal advice on whether a ban is possible and if so, how it can be enforced. Current smokers may be grandfathered in but any new owner who buys a unit through the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority may be subject to the ban, if adopted.

The move, which is viewed by many as precedent setting because it will dictate what people can and cannot do on their own property, has some homeowners crying foul.

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Old 08-12-2008, 05:15 PM   #5
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Old 08-12-2008, 05:18 PM   #6
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I work at a hospital, and people are still shocked to hear that, no, there isn't a smoking area. Not anywhere on the property. Well, folks, it's a HOSPITAL.
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Old 08-12-2008, 07:23 PM   #7
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Rubbish, I can't slowly commit suicide on hospital property? What better place is there?
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Old 08-12-2008, 07:52 PM   #8
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I work at a hospital, and people are still shocked to hear that, no, there isn't a smoking area. Not anywhere on the property. Well, folks, it's a HOSPITAL.
There is/was a McDonalds in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I realize the Ronald McDonald House helps a lot of families out at that hospital, but still... seems as wrong as all the McDonalds/Olympics commercials to me...

You have to stand outside to smoke though. Took the lady we were sharing a room with, whos baby was in an oxygen tent, a good half hour to go have a smoke (7th floor), which she did about every 20 minutes.
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Old 08-12-2008, 07:52 PM   #9
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Good for you Sheldon - if you were in a designated area then she is a mouthy bitch and deserved to be taken down a peg. As long as you weren't littering... Sorry, as a reformed partial smoker I have always, and will always froth at the mouth at smokers who think dropping butts isn't littering. Grrrrr.

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I work at a hospital, and people are still shocked to hear that, no, there isn't a smoking area. Not anywhere on the property. Well, folks, it's a HOSPITAL.
When I was going to group therapy I very nearly got into a row with a fellow therapee (?) about this. He had an issue with the fact the smoking area was at the edge of the hospital grounds (technically OFF the grounds). He was fulminating about the fact that nurses - young! female! nurses - had to stand away from the building. How much risk did they put themselves in?

My response was that they knew the area and knew the risk. If they decided a cigarette was worth the risk then it was their decision and theirs alone. It was their workplace after all. For the record this wasn't downtown Bhagdad - the smoking "shelter" was in the same place as the taxi rank for heaven's sake.
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Old 08-12-2008, 10:37 PM   #10
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Not to worry SG, I always know where to put my butt.
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Old 08-12-2008, 10:41 PM   #11
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at least she didn't call it a fag end...
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Old 08-12-2008, 11:37 PM   #12
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Yea Sheldon I talk about that all the time. People don't have any sense. They drive around in their cars with pollution pouring out the tail-pipe and look at smokers all cross-eyed. If they are so concerned, they should stop driving.

Yes, lots of people pollute every day, this is a fact.

Next time, tell her pretentious butt to quit being so gassy, it's tearing a hole right through the ozone layer.
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Old 08-13-2008, 09:34 AM   #13
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at least she didn't call it a fag end...
"Fag end"? Isn't that the gay Hobbit section of town?
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Old 08-13-2008, 10:00 AM   #14
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Old 08-13-2008, 11:22 AM   #15
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Our hospital: no smoking anywhere on the grounds.

Here at the college: designated smoking areas but I wonder how long that will last because people are too lazy to put their butts in the receptacle that is right there in arm's length but they put them on the ground.

What a beeacth to pull up and say that to you shel. Shall I kick her "butt" for you?
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