Smoking in the shelter is a problem that won’t go away, it seems. Some of you are just assholes and don’t care, some of you are just plain ignorant, so a pox on you rude idiots that smoke in the shelter while the rest of us who don’t want to smell your fucking stank (or some of us who have asthma, or have children).
Do know you look like a complete fucking asshole when people are shivering outside the shelter while you puff away inside, then RACE to get on the bus in front of everyone ahead of you who had to stand outside the stop? And you work at the hospital? Seriously? Do you run around there like a child, all proud of yourself for bolting in front of everyone (who froze thanks to you) and holding your arms out at the curb as soon as the bus gets there? How childish do you have to be?
I don’t care if people smoke, I’m not against it, but for fuck sakes have some common DECENCY for people around you—YOU chose to smoke, not me. So smoke outside the stop (not just in the doorway either, fuckwit, the smoke fills the shelter) or if you’re that cold, put the fucking cigarette out. And for fuck sakes wait your turn to get on the bus, you look to be well over 40 yet you act 18. Get a clue and a life you useless old rude chimney-smelling hag. Waiting for Metro Useless and its fucked-up schedule sucks already, you don’t need to be making it worse. —I Know I Know, Buy A Car and Shut Up OB 😉
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
It really is a problem that wont go away. I think more and more people should call out people smoking in shelters.
Like OP said some people just don’t care.
You call them out they say F-You and everyone is shooting dirty looks at each other.
Some people only care about themselves. This is not right but this is the mentality of alot of people.
people suck
there should be some other way to get back at them…
like punishing them as you would a cat.
bring a small squirt bottle with you (like the mini fabreeze ones) and just spray them constantly until they fuck off.
for added fun, refill with urine for a nice fine misty golden shower…
This really frightened me because it sounds exactly like I wrote it.
The fabreeze answer is the best idea in a long time.
Get the most perfumed or flowery version, spray ALL OVER the place making sure to cover the guy/girl. They will stink like a cheap hooker all the live long day.
HAHAHAHAHA HA.
But be prepared to run or possibly get beaten or burned.
Anyone that is such a selfish schmuck could be less than happy having to smell someone else’s plumes of stank.
Maybe instead of spenading 50 + million they don’t have to create more bus routes…they could cancel that idea & with what money they do have. They could use some of the money to build smoking & nonsmoking shelters ,on the routes that already exist !
something tells me they wouldn’t build new shelters, they’d just partition the current ones.
All bus shelter smokers should be hung by thier eyelids and kicked in the groin until they blink.
hey, that’s not all us smokers. just some of the more ignorant ones. most smokers go out of their way to accomidate you fucking whining nons. we even stand in the fucking rain,get soaked, and what the fuck do you care. and add to that,on any given no windy day,there is a lot of air space betwixt you and i. so, go out of your way next time,and shut the fuck up about all smokers being pricks.
There are a lot of accommodating smokers out there, LS, but it’s the ones who aren’t that mar the rest of y’all.
Problem *is* with calling them out is that if they have the balls to smoke in a shelter, you have to wonder what they’d do if you called them out. You have to be really careful these days.
I’m sorry, but any way you slice it, smoking is a nasty, dirty, stinky habit. It smells, and the smoke gets into anything absorbent and stays there until you clean it out. Ever steam cleaned a carpet in a smoker’s apartment? Well I saw the apartment next door to my old unit’s carpets get steamed cleaned when i went to have a look at the larger unit, and the people who lived there smoked and the carpets were dingy and dirty as fuck from all that smoke.
Smokers can try and rationalize it however they want, but no one is going to buy all the excuses that a lot of smokers have. Deep down, y’all know a non-smoking life has A LOT more benefits to a smoking life (health, financial, etc…). Smoking’s your choice — I don’t really give a shit who does and doesn’t suck on cancer sticks, but just stay the fuck away from me when you light up. I wouldn’t willingly go over to your space when you were smoking, and if you were there first and then start smoking after I got there, I’ll move, but don’t get all up in my grillz and light a fag and then give me dirty looks when I move (just like this morning at the terminal).
Also (yes I’m in a ranty-shitty ass mood today so eat it), why in the FUCK do some smokers think it’s OK to randomly light up in a crowed of people? Like, perhaps you could walk a few steps down the sidewalk away from the [non smoking] crowd to light up your shit stick? No, that would require too much effort and consideration, I guess. Just like it takes too much effort and consideration to actually read the “don’t fucking smoke within 10 metres of this building’s doorway” signs and, oh, I dunno, FOLLOW THEM?
Fuck sakes.
i’m a considerate asshole. i’m the guy in the red/white columbia coat with a yellow/black duffel bag smoking way the fuck off to the side at the bridge terminal near the driver’s shelter.
everybody who hates bus stop smokers should come over and give me a pat on the back. i’m an dirty, disgusting smoker who is part of the reason why the gas you put in your car doesn’t cost $2/L. and i do it in a kind and selfless way. well…as kind as i can be.
i’m a subsidizing coaster.
Smoking at ANY bus stop is a problem. I was standing next to a guy who had some flavored smoke, not really paying attention.
But then I get home and the gf’s like “You stink! What the hell is that?” Turns out the stench stuck to me like glue. Washed my clothes and my jacket that night. Had crack a window, which was awesome on an evening with -10 temperatures.
Ever since then I stand about 20 feet away from the bus stop.
To the smokers that actually give a fuck – Thank you!
I fucking hate it when people smoke in the bus shelter. I actually don’t see it very often, though.
I had a girl ask me sometime last year if I minded if she smoked, and I said I did – she made some sort of rude comment to her friend! I just said, “Hey, you asked.”.
Thanks to the smokers who smoke in the wind and the rain. I don’t hate you, just your habit.
Since when have there been heaters in bus shelters? You’re shivering outside? Maybe it’s because you’re outside. Now if you said you were getting soaked in the rain, it would have made more sense.
Shelters do block wind, and while I suspect OP is referring to Lacewood terminal, there are a few privately owned shelters in the city, like the Burnside jail and in front of the NS. If there are yellow dots on the glass, the shelter was meant for smokers.
The lacewood terminal is the bane of my existence. Ugh.
I’ll be happy as a pig in shit when they move that fucking thing (preferably by the new rec centre on lacewood).
A well timed and placed fart is quite effective at moving personnel.
A smoker myself, I would likely have taken issue with the bitch.
wow mr. bastard you’re farts must smell like my dogs invisible poison gas bombs^^