As, a waitress, I tend to take my job pretty seriously. More seriously than others anyway. I eat at restaurants in my downtime. I expect to be treated with respect and served as though my business is important. So when a woman I was serving on Saturday began a heated discussion with my manager, I wanted to know what was up.
“What was wrong with her?” I asked. “Was it something I did?”
“No,” he said. “There were people smoking outside and she was upset about it.”
Excuse me?! WTF?! Look, I am a smoker. I have no intention to quit anytime soon, but I actually support the smoking ban in Indiana. I, as well as other fellow smokers, know that people don’t want to breathe in second hand smoke. I mean COME ON, if I had a baby and someone lit up right next to me, I’d flip. SO I UNDERSTAND. That’s what this ban was intended to do!
So what the fuck do the non-smokers want from us?! We can’t inhale cigarettes while we pore over mystery novels, coffee in hand, at Steak and Shake at 3am. We can’t have that satisfying smoke after we WAY overdo it at the Chinese buffet. And now it’s not even socially acceptable to light up in places where it’s legal. Like outdoors! How was anyone “hurting” this woman by having a cigarette away from her general area? Was the smoke drifting in through the brick walls, through the foyer, around the kitchen, and into her food? No. She was just bitching to bitch.
Just like a tree in an empty forest, if I’m smoking away from society, am I really doing anything wrong? I mean sure, I’m slowly killing myself, but that’s decision I made for myself. I don’t need pre-menopausal soccer moms running to “the man” and tattling on me.
I’m seriously thinking about writing a letter to the editor politely asking all the whiny non-smokers to shut their damn mouths.
All that being said though, I really like this commercial:
Great choreography, around the bear traps and all. Even better lyrics. Ah, PSAs are becoming so clever. This person hated it, lol. But its WAY more fun than this one I remember from back in the day:
Ugh, whatev, I need a cigarette…
Crystal Said:
on March 4, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Yeah..that lady just wanted to bitch. I mean c’mon the people where outside!
You can’t smoke in the restaurants down here and I miss Michigan because you could up there. Although, I haven’t had a cigarette in a month, I should just quit.
I love the magical amount commercial. The second one was a little creepy, I don’t think I remember it.
Miranda Said:
on March 5, 2008 at 5:27 pm
As a fellow smoker I say TRUE THAT!