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RANT: Non-Smoker Fundies
OK, I have been a non-smoker all my life, but recently due to some serious stress in my life, I have started smoking cloves. Not chain-smoking really, but I do smoke about a pack per week.
This morning while I was on my way to the hospital to see my husband, I stopped to grab an iced latte at a place where I've been going for over a year.
The owner, a Vietnamese guy, has always been extremely friendly and used to ask me every time, how my husband was doing and how I was holding up, etc. Seemed like a really cool dude.
But today was different.
While he was running my debit card I lit up a clove, and he came back to the window and said "What are you doing??"
I said "Smoking a clove..."
He just totally went off on me. [insert Vietnamese accent here] "That so stinky! What you do that for? And you rook stinky too!"
I glanced at myself - truck is clean, I have on a pair of jeans and a tank top, no obvious stains, just took a bath, have deoderant on, etc. Gee! He must be talking about the cloves!
"Get outa here!" He says and flags me away.
Note, he didn't ask word one about my husband, or me, or anything - just turned into an instant judgemental hypocrite who sells one type of addictive substance (caffeine) but damns all who use another (was gonna say nicotine but cloves don't even have that!)
Anyway - sheeesh! Now I know what smokers put up with. I mean, yes I support laws that ban smoking in restaurants and bars because I don't want to beathe all that smoke - but if I lite up in my own car, who the fuck should care??
**Can you tell I miss the "RANTS" section of our forum?
Anyway - had to get that out. Any smokers or non-smokers have similar experiences to share? or thoughts?
[insert Jewish accent here] Discuss amongst yourselves...
This morning while I was on my way to the hospital to see my husband, I stopped to grab an iced latte at a place where I've been going for over a year.
The owner, a Vietnamese guy, has always been extremely friendly and used to ask me every time, how my husband was doing and how I was holding up, etc. Seemed like a really cool dude.
But today was different.
While he was running my debit card I lit up a clove, and he came back to the window and said "What are you doing??"
I said "Smoking a clove..."
He just totally went off on me. [insert Vietnamese accent here] "That so stinky! What you do that for? And you rook stinky too!"
I glanced at myself - truck is clean, I have on a pair of jeans and a tank top, no obvious stains, just took a bath, have deoderant on, etc. Gee! He must be talking about the cloves!
"Get outa here!" He says and flags me away.
Note, he didn't ask word one about my husband, or me, or anything - just turned into an instant judgemental hypocrite who sells one type of addictive substance (caffeine) but damns all who use another (was gonna say nicotine but cloves don't even have that!)
Anyway - sheeesh! Now I know what smokers put up with. I mean, yes I support laws that ban smoking in restaurants and bars because I don't want to beathe all that smoke - but if I lite up in my own car, who the fuck should care??
**Can you tell I miss the "RANTS" section of our forum?
Anyway - had to get that out. Any smokers or non-smokers have similar experiences to share? or thoughts?
[insert Jewish accent here] Discuss amongst yourselves...
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Permalink Reply by Zenobia on -
I went back to his stand a couple days ago (was careful not to lite up) and he was his normal cheerful self, LOL, although no apology or reference to what happened.
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