To the woman glaring at me while I swept up cigarette butts outside my store this morning, puffing on a cigarette right under the sign next to the doorway that says “NO SMOKING”… what was your fucking deal? Why were you giving me the dirty stink-eye, and why did you feel the need to walk over and say “Here’s another one.” and flick your nasty butt at my feet.
I have never had someone do something so rude to me in my entire life! I hope you get lung cancer.
—Cleaning up after your dirty habit
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.
Some people just have no respect.
It’s disgusting.
Holy fucking hell if that woman did that to me I’d seriously fuck up her car if she was parked near by.
The total nerve of some people. I can respect a person who wants to keep there property clean and tidy, but to have someone come up to you and do this is totally disrepectful. I’m not a violent person but if someone did that to me I couldn’t see me holding back my temper. I would have picked the butt up and pinged it back at her and followed it with my hand across her face. What a hateful and rude bitch
Yeah, I’m with Wonder. Should have stuffed all those butts down her throat.
OK…wa da fuck….sooo sorry shit face! So sad – too bad. You were rounding the mutherfuckers up, did one more kill you?
You’ve had a quiet fucking life if that’s your worst climax. Count yer blessings and piss-off.
That woman is basically the cunt of all cunts. Her addiction is a fate worse enough, don’t worry.
Gee Smee, tell me you wouldn’t be pissed if it was you that she did it too
Gee. That means I got a store and a job and the worst thing that somebody EVER did to me was add a butt to the pile I was sweeping……hmmmm. Yah, that’s a real bad pile a shit to be in, eh? Wow, since you point it out…gee…..I would be so mad…. your right. My bills would be paid, I’d be busy all day, could do what I wanted, and I’ve had a sweet protected life….come to think of it, I WOULD BE MAD AS HELL….THAT FUCKING BUTT PUT AT MY FEET IS THE WORST THING ANYBODY HAS EVER DONE TO ME!!! …….Give me a break.
We’ll your certainly gettin’ riled up here talking about it. Me thinks you’d probably go ape shit.
Smee, if you were the shopkeeper in that situation, and your BP didn’t notch up, a couple of veins didn’t start throbbing in your pasty forehead, and your arms didn’t start trembling with the desire to do a hammerlock on the cow before destroying her head with repeated elbows, you’re a medical marvel.
Either that or you’re a docile, beaten-down, broken wretch. OK, I’ll go with the latter.
Heh Bastard Fish.
You were the one that reacted by ‘going to fuck my car’ and suggested to ‘stuff those butts down my throat’.
And you think I’M worked up? Geeze man, get a grip on the action…”Here’s another one”. Good thing you don’t have a life and a gun! You’d shoot us all.
Un-Realist in Darkage:
You folks are regular ticking time bombs if you truly feel that way, God help you if anybody looks at you the wrong way. Listen to yourselves. OK, try this…Imagine you are explaining your actions to a judge and how this poor Smee deserved what you did to her for saying “Here’s another one”.
You better add the nasty dirty stink-eye look too, so the judge can really feel the pain.
Hey, Smee, God help *us* if you can’t see why what that woman smoker did was so ignorant. Because, in my experience, socially inept folks who truly cannot understand why certain actions are base, graceless and…quite frankly, assholish…tend to be people who routinely (and I’ll grant you this, usually without malicious intent) are baffled by why they leave so many irritated or angry people in their wake. That’s if they even notice – usually they don’t.
Ticking time bomb? Not me. I just have a well-adjusted threshold of intolerance for truly rude behaviour.
Would I actually perpetrate physical violence on the smoker in question? No. Although I’d dream about it. In reality, I’d probably take the lead from what my Mom did years ago. She was just getting into her car when someone in another car flicked a butt out their window. My mother calmly picked the cigarette up and threw it back in the litterer’s vehicle. So, in this situation, were I the shopkeeper, I figure the most poetic thing to do would be to pick up that specific cigarette butt and bounce it off the woman, saying pleasantly “You missed…please aim more carefully into the butt can the next time”.
I’ve never met a smoker under 60 that didn’t have a personality disorder or seem stuck at age 14. Did the smoking cause them to become that way or is that why they took up smoking in the first place? I guess it doesn’t really matter, either way they’re screwed.
doubtful, the reason smokers sometimes do the things they do. They’re fucking tired of draconian and bullshit laws.
The biggest bullshit law is that kids can’t go into a tabacco shop but they can go into a fucking liquor store. That tobacco products can’t be shown in these same store (that kids aren’t allowed in) or the product priced. Fuck last time I was in the liquor store the product was out for all to see and priced. That’s just one thing, I won’t get into the rest (but I’m sure someone will).
So just look at it as the protest of the smoker.
Bro:
The tobacco laws may well be hypocritical as hell, but something tells me that this was less about protesting and more about being a grade A piece of crap because she disapproved of the OP for having a job that required him to sweep up after her.
Besides, smoker or no (and I am), there’s *still* such a thing as common courtesy, and if there was an ashtray (or some other recepticle), then the woman in question should have used it. That’s what they’re there for, y’know?
That was a shitty thing to do, and yes she will get it in the end, karma and all.
oh my what a bitch!!!
Dino called it, that woman’s a cunt. And Smee, it’s not that this is the worst thing that will ever likely happen in the OP’s life, but the context of the situation warrants the bitch. Not only was the woman smoking in a no smoking area, but she’s was being malevolent and shitty…especially because she went out of her way to walk over to the shop owner, flick the butt at her feet, and effectively say, “clean my shit up.” That is rude, no matter how you slice it.
I really don’t like the comparison of alcohol to cigarettes. Tobacco is known to be seriously harmfulnotonly to yourself, but to everyone around you, no matter how good your intentions are. Alchol can be dangerous, but only in situations where the person using the alcohol is dangerous to begin with. If you’re stupi enough to drive drunk, or get alcohol poisoning, or get in bar fights, I bet you’re stupid when you’re not drunk as well. If you are tricked into starting smoking as a child by your stupid parents/friends, or advertising, you find yourself addicted and screwed.
Smee, if you were minding your own business on your door step, having a few beer, and you were picking up the cans to bring them to the garbage and some guy came by and threw another empty at your feet, and told you to clean that one up too, would you not be pissed?
Oh I get it! Smee IS the lady who flicked the cigarette butt at the shopkeep! It all makes sense now! 😛
I’d be pissed but I’d probably react with “why are you such a bitch?” because I would honestly be curious about why someone would act like that to a complete stranger.
Smee, I’d punch your fucking face in. And I’d tell the judge flat out I punched your face in, and that I’d gladly do it again. And when I got out of jail, I’d punch your face in once more for good measure. You wanna be a snotty bitch? Fine, if that was me you did that to, you’d have a reason to be one.
Oh oh oh, I’ll get the popcorn…ok, have at it folks. We haven’t had a good flame war in weeks.
I agree, Three. Kay’s been awfully quiet lately.
Hey, Outtatown – we’ll visit you in prison. Second time around…not so much.
Though I was not referencing Kay, I guess that’s how my comment could be interpreted. Sorry Kay if you felt that was aimed at you.
FWIW, Kay you’ve been much more constructive, less rant prone, and generally nicer to everyone on the board.
less time on my hands…
OP, cancer? tsk tsk tsk
Hey, let’s get out ta town.
On the beer can thing, that’s like throwing money at me, I can’t object or get mad at that. Keep it coming. You’ll need to try another analogy.
Redcat, you get to come to the front of the class, no flies on you! Yes itsmee!
Anyhow, chill the fuck out. I didn’t and don’t miss the point of the OP, (and by the way that should O’B’ for original ‘Bitch’) it’s the seriously distressed overreaction to a simple act that I find upsetting, the OB’s, hello’s, Basterd Fish’s, SometimesIWonder’s, Dino Jr’s (to my surprise), Realist in Dartmouth’s, and Outtatown’s reactions immediately turned to violence!
Way to go folks! Give your fellow bitch some slack. Turn the other cheek. You never had a bad day?
Gees man, whale oil beef hooked.
The internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS isn’t it.
What do you expect from a smoker, the majority of them have no self respect (this one also has no conscience) nor any respect for the environment (just count the discarded butts). I’d have gone the otherway with this and thanked them for assisting you in keeping the place clean & tidy, after all they could have flicked it in the other direction, in complete ignorance as normal!
What would any smoker do when they are faced with a spent butt in their hand/lips and there is someone there cleaning up right where they would normally flick it? Look on the good side, at least they put it your direction!
No smokers are just fucking pissed off with the idiocy. Really, no smoking on an OUTSIDE patio with smoke spewing cars, buses, and trucks going by, idiocy. Venues which spent 10s of thousands of dollars for ventilations systems which worked.
Remember the Boston Tea Party.
No, that’s not quite it. Smokers are pissed at themselves.
They pay dearly to feed an addiction they spend most of the time hating every minute of it. They know it’s stupid, they know it’s poison and gonna kill them if they don’t smarten up. But an hour or so later it’s back, that urge, gotta have a smoke, gotta feel that smoke again. Quit later, smoke now. It’s a hideous mind fuck and you hate it, but right now, fuck-it and have a smoke, the body’s croaking for it. So there you are, all this shit running around in your head as you smoke that stick, and you notice, now that your calming down from the craving, shit look at those butts being swept up, fucking gross! This smoking shit stinks, fuck, I gotta quit, that’s it, right now, throw this sucker away, Hey, I say to my self, I’m quitin’, fucking right, this is bullshit. This butt’s going to the pile………”Here’s another one.” I said as I walk away with determination to let that be the last. I hate myself for giving in, what a stupid shit!
Come on, now, Smee, while smokers can certainly be a self-lacerating bunch, due to the fact that they know damned well they’re addicted (guilty as charged), that *doesn’t* excuse the behavior that the target of OP (OB)’s Bitch exhibited toward him/her.
I’m certain that most smokers have been the target of reproachful stares, and all of us have crappy days whether we smoke or not. But while that may explain why the smoker acted the way she did, it certainly doesn’t make it right. You’d think the smoker might have remembered those nasty stares she received before she decided to pay the disfavor forward in the direction of a convenient target.
So, the Bitch is legit, imho.
Willyeckers , sorry to burst your bubble but there are far worse things I could be doing like drinking or shooting heroine so please don’t presume all smokers are slaves to addiction and hate themselves for it. You do enough hating for us anyway…. For the record, some of us really enjoy a good smoke as much as we enjoy our stoked ego’s.
The attitudes in here is a reflection of the city’s. That is why Hellifax is such a festering shit-hole. Great city great people, not so much. Relax you bunch of fuckers. You all need more Weed or Prozac, what ever your drug of choice. You need to chill-the-fuck out that is forsure.
Holy fuck, it was a cigarette butt for fuck sakes. Pretentious much?