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Don’t dare stand still or make eye contact in Halifax or some loser will bum a cigarette! I work really hard and make sacrifices in order to afford the luxury. If you’re gonna smoke—you have to fuckin’ BUY THEM. —Pissed Off in Downtown.
This article appears in Nov 22-28, 2012.
19 Comments
Well it seems ther’s still some lower down the ladder than the cigarette smoker !
Those who bum smokes ………LLLL OOOOO LLLL ~;p
If you’re adamant on smoking, I’d recommend getting your hands on some american ciggys… they won’t take it after you show them the pack.
“If you’re adamant on smoking, I’d recommend getting your hands on some american ciggys… they won’t take it after you show them the pack”
Or, instead of smoking really gross tasting cigarettes just so even the bums won’t want them, say no. I say no and it works for me…
is so funny that this bitch comes up today. i just took my little one home to mommy, and i was waiting for the 52. i had no less than 5 people ask me for a smoke. fuck me gently, don’t anyone buy their own anymore. i looked one guy dead in the eye, and told him no, and he gets all well keep your fucking cigarettes then, exactly, i will keep all my smokes asshole.
Buy menthol. Problem solved.
Just tell them that you can’t, in all good conscience, give them something that gross, smelly and dangerous to their health.
hezz has the best idea, do they still make menthol?
i quit 6 years ago after smoking for more than 40 years. no idea how i managed it, just put the pack down and said that was it. never had a relapse or urge that lasted longer than a nano. weird.
Keep your eyes on their body language. They may just be scummers taking the world’s filthiest habit to a new level of low; or it could be a distraction to set you up for a blitz attack while you’re fumbling with your belongings.
Dab the end of a couple smokes in meth or crack and give them away. Then you will have the last laugh. Better yet, give the laced smokes to the fat bums. They’re the worst.
Furious that is not a solution for anyone. I must assume you are joking about the crack/meth solution. Crack, fat bums, etc. Are you sure you don’t have a secret desire for a fattie???? A little fat fettish perhaps???
that furious is a closet fattie, honey
Hauling out a smoke in public is equivalent to hauling out a french fry in a McDonald’s parking lot with a thousand seagulls.
YAY!!!!! IT’S CHEQUE DAY!!!!! WOOT WOOT. The only day of the month when everyone has smokes. Right, Blow Me?
BAHAHA, SHITTY-D, that actually made me LOL.
Also: probably why the estimated wait time on my Service Canada call is ‘greater than 45 minutes.’
Though, for some reason, I picture some poor fuck sitting in a dark closet somewhere with a rotary phone and a computer with an old CRT monitor from 1995 answering all the CPP/EI/OAP phone calls.
Shit! I didn’t know it’s” cheque day” today.Grocery store was packed.
GDM, you quit cold turkey? Damn…I would be a basket case if I tried that! I have struggled with smoking since I was 15 (a few years ago haha), and just quit using Champix. I haven’t had one for two months, and plan to steer clear of them for good. My friend’s mother was just diagnosed with lung cancer, so we both quit to support her in some way.
And, yes, they still make Menthol….That’s what I smoked, and I couldn’t give them away if I tried! Lol!
And LMAO @ cheque day! Does this mean I shouldn’t go to a certain store with a name that resembles a “Large orange & black striped exotic feline” tonight??
People would always ask me for gum in junior high because I was always packing, so I switched to that lemon ice gum Excel used to make. Nobody wanted dat shit but me.
hey hezz! yeah, i did, but absolutely cannot claim any points for it. previous attempts at quitting usually lasted an hour, tops. i hate being told what to do, even by myself.
this one just happened, and i am very very grateful. one small thing maybe, i did say to myself ‘look, if you only last an hour, it’s ok, there’s always another day, don’t beat yourself up’
perhaps taking the self abuse/loathing for failure out of the equation did the trick.
i started when i was 12. quit for 5 years while i was pushing out the babies, then went back to school and picked it up again along with the descartes.