09-22-2009, 04:14 PM
Doc wrote:
[quote=AlphaDog]
Hmmmm. Have you considered the possibility that smokers make an extra effort to annoy you because they've learned you're so annoyable?
Nah. With one exception, they were strangers who came with party guests. The exception was my aunt (not a blood relation) who has the IQ of a carrot.
That's your problem then. Tell those friends to stop inviting the uncouth friends. My boyfriend/partner smokes. He smokes outside the apartment 95% of the time because he hates the smell indoors. He only started smoking out the bathroom window recently because I gave him the OK during wintertime at night. If it's 2AM, I would rather have him smoke out the bathroom window & close the door to shut it out than freeze his ass off in 5 degree weather on the stoop.
That's just another kind of even compromise based on (our) reality & realistic applications. Other than super late at night when he's in his boxers, he smokes outside, all the time. You know why? Because he's polite, like a lot of smokers. They realize they walk a tight rope and have an addiction, so a lot try their best to accommodate it. The new proposals to ban smoking in public parks/spaces in NYC has a lot of people up in arms because it's going too far. Even the non-smokers are coming to the smokers' defense. The non-smokers include folks who have never smoked not just former smokers. Imagine you're in Central Park and you can't smoke even though it's a good 46 long blocks. That's a pretty huge radius and inconceivable for a lot of New Yorkers and they find it unfair.