A World Gone Fucking Insane

[Purple Haze]

So I'm at an all-school track-meet at our public stadium, and the 12:30 race my kid is running still hasn't happened at a quarter to three. I'm tired of sitting and I decide to go stand in some out the way place and have a cigarette. (I know they're not good for you) So here I am minding my own business with no one closer than twenty yards away from me, outside, on a beautiful breezy afternoon, and some guy walks up to me and tells me smoking is not allowed. I don't see a badge or a uniform on him, so I ask him who he is and if he is in fact in charge. He very politely extends his hand for a shake and says he's such-and-such, the principal from such-and-such grade school and smoking is not allowed on the premises. Good enough for me, I snuff it out and wish I'd put it out in his eye, or at least on the cheap sportcoat he was wearing. Well I'm usually polite when someone is to me, but I can't stop thinking how fucking rude this was. I'm a fairly respectable human being, but because I smoke a cigarette, A STILL-LEGAL ACTIVITY, I am exempt from respect from him and the rest of the tobacco nazis that have enjoyed their decade-long reign of superiority in our so-called free society.

Just venting......

 

[TN_Vixen]

hey baby, you can smoke a cigarette in my bed anytime.

 

[HighSchoolJock]

So I'm at an all-school track-meet at our public stadium, and the 12:30 race my kid is running still hasn't happened at a quarter to three. I'm tired of sitting and I decide to go stand in some out the way place and have a cigarette. (I know they're not good for you) So here I am minding my own business with no one closer than twenty yards away from me, outside, on a beautiful breezy afternoon, and some guy walks up to me and tells me smoking is not allowed. I don't see a badge or a uniform on him, so I ask him who he is and if he is in fact in charge. He very politely extends his hand for a shake and says he's such-and-such, the principal from such-and-such grade school and smoking is not allowed on the premises. Good enough for me, I snuff it out and wish I'd put it out in his eye, or at least on the cheap sportcoat he was wearing. Well I'm usually polite when someone is to me, but I can't stop thinking how fucking rude this was. I'm a fairly respectable human being, but because I smoke a cigarette, A STILL-LEGAL ACTIVITY, I am exempt from respect from him and the rest of the tobacco nazis that have enjoyed their decade-long reign of superiority in our so-called free society.

Just venting......

actually smoking or using tobacco is ILLEGAL on most board of education properties.

 

[Purple Haze]

You needed to quote my whole post to say that?

 

[HighSchoolJock]

You needed to quote my whole post to say that?

well you needed to type it. i only felt it proper to give you credit

 

[Problem Child]

Kick his ass, Haze.

 

[TN_Vixen]

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actually smoking or using tobacco is ILLEGAL on most board of education properties.

Not true. I smoke at all my son's basketball, baseball and football games and they're on school property.

 

[Purple Haze]

I already did on the basketball thread.

He just doesn't know it yet.

 

[HighSchoolJock]

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Not true. I smoke at all my son's basketball, baseball and football games and they're on school property.

you must really love your son.

 

[Problem Child]

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you must really love your son.

Oh, so you're the douchebag everyone's been telling me about.

 

[p_p_man]

I reckon that smopkers are some of the most considerate people around...

especially since the anti-smoking brigade have pointed out the ant-social aspects of the habit. But conversely I wish non-smokers didn't take it upon themselves to wage their own personal war againist smokers.

As a smoker I've often come across situations as Purple Haze mentions but one of the classics happened about two years ago.

I was waiting for a train to arrive and purposely chose an empty bench at the end of the platform to sit and have a cigarette. No sooner had I lit up when I was joined by someone else who almost immediately started coughing and waving his hand around in the air like some sort of demeneted windmill.

I said nothing and just sat there enjoying my smoke. My point is that I was in the open air, smoking is not illegal on British Rail platforms outside the waiting rooms and when I saw the man approaching 'my' bench I made sure that he saw I was smoking.

In the end he spent 10 minutes twisting himself into contortions and I spent a very enjoyable 10 minutes being entertained.

But I do wish non-smokers wouldn't do that sort of thing.

I just find it irritating...

 

[TN_Vixen]

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you must really love your son.

No, actually I despise him spackletard.

Get a grip.

 

[OpposingBalance]

Hey PH.
You know what? Fuck them.
You were well out of range. I very much doubt anyone in the stands could smell your smoke...
I've been a smoker for 14 years, and have run into this problem myself a time or two...
Screw it, doesn't matter. They're just anal retentive bitches.

 

[Problem Child]

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No, actually I despise him spackletard.

Get a grip.

hehe...she called the douchebag a spackletard...

 

[TN_Vixen]

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hehe...she called the douchebag a spackletard...

Inspired my darling.. I was inspired.

 

[Purple Haze]

Sure enough, later on at the same place I seek out a hiding place behind a building, feeling like a criminal, smoking a smoke and some fuck-twit woman walks by and wags her wrinkled old finger at me. I said, "I'm fucking trying to hide, does that count for anything?" She just smiled and walked on.

Bitch!

 

[Sillyman]

It's sad enough we have people addicted to a nerve affecting drug without giving them shit for it. Banning cigarettes in more public plces just makes it more likely that something worse will happen. I won't die from a little second hand smoke if the smokers are considerate, like you fine people. I would probably be in worse shape when the nic-fitting smoker behind me in the restuarant decides to take hostages to get his food faster so he can finally go smoke.

 

[TN_Vixen]

Sure enough, later on at the same place I seek out a hiding place behind a building, feeling like a criminal, smoking a smoke and some fuck-twit woman walks by and wags her wrinkled old finger at me. I said, "I'm fucking trying to hide, does that count for anything?" She just smiled and walked on.

Bitch!

I agree. You're OUTSIDE for God's sake.

 

[kiwiwolf]

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Oh, so you're the douchebag everyone's been telling me about.

LOL... and he never learns PC. I've been whacking him about on his own thread for a couple of days now and the munchkin just doesn't learn...

Haze as a fellow smoker I know what you are saying. We have a law here in NZ now that states that all restaurants must supply a smoking and non smoking area. Sensible you might say, but when you think about it the law is ludicrous. No physical partitioning is neccessary, so a smoking table is invariably parked right next to a non smoking table... Moronic to say the least...

 

[OpposingBalance]

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you must really love your son.

What the fuck does that have anything to do with anything?!?!?!
Shit, and just when I was starting to think you were inteligent based upon another thread.
Like I said in said thread;
You have let me down...

 

[miles]

Why is it...........

When I smoked, it seemed like I was the only smoker left in the world.

When I finally quit, it felt like everyone else was smoking but me, and enjoying the hell out of it.

Hate when then happens.

 

[HighSchoolJock]

I agree. You're OUTSIDE for God's sake.

once again it is ILLEGAL to smoke on board of education property. what a wonderful message you send to your kids at these athletic events. "hey kids its ok to break the rules as long as you bitch about it afterwards. just be really sneaky and if anyone says anything they're nazis and its their fault"

this is a law enacted to protect your kids. if you dont like it use grassroots politics to change it.

 

[p_p_man]

this is a law enacted to protect your kids.

So I suppose we're soon going to see laws banning automobiles, planes and other exuders of obnoxious gases?

 

[miles]

So I suppose we're soon going to see laws banning automobiles, planes and other exuders of obnoxious gases?

Like yourself, old boy?

 

[Problem Child]

once again it is ILLEGAL to smoke on board of education property. what a wonderful message you send to your kids at these athletic events. "hey kids its ok to break the rules as long as you bitch about it afterwards. just be really sneaky and if anyone says anything they're nazis and its their fault"

this is a law enacted to protect your kids. if you dont like it use grassroots politics to change it.

You're the fucking moron that drives 55 in the fast lane on the freeway in your Yugo with your left turn signal on for twelve miles, aren't you?

I knew it.