I had to write this out of sheer frustration at the people smoking outside of my bedroom window…
I have no problem if someone decides to smoke; it is their life. However, when I have no choice where my room is, where the windows are, and someone else chooses to smoke directly under my bedroom window, I get angry.
Why can’t they walk ten feet away from the building? It is a parking lot, not a busy street. Just walk over to the fence, smoke, and then walk then ten feet back to the back door.
This is a new phenomenon, in eleven months I haven’t had anyone else do this. Most people smoke out front, on their way somewhere, or near the back door. I ran out to ask the person to move yesterday and they were gone. Today they are back but I am too riled up to go outside.
Argh!! I can’t move my room to another spot, why can’t they move their bodies and cigarettes a few feet away? —LZ
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
pull the screen out and dump a bucket of water on them. then they stop smoking under the window.
Fuck off, they’re OUTSIDE.
Yes, but when they smoke by windows the smoke blows INSIDE, so essentially, they’re smoking INSIDE, BT.
Sometimes I seriously question your ability to function at a somewhat basic level, BT. Let me guess: velcro shoes. Amirite?
Why don’t you go out and ask them to move, OP? They probably don’t realize it’s bothering you. Most smokers aren’t assholes, really. I used to be able to smell the smoke coming from my neighbours’ apartment, but the new super is great about putting the exchangers on so no more smoke smell, so I definitely feel your pain, OP. Asking might help. if not ask the super to address the problem.
Go outside, politely explain that their cigarette smoke is blowing inside your window, ask them to move, then go back inside and see if they do. If they don’t, complain to your superintendent.
This solution is not difficult to figure out.
velcro shoes hahaha
OMG Lezzie, you must be me neigbour! Mine complained their clothes smelled of smoke due to the rezzies smoking outside? Yet they will grill the fuck out of a dead animal on the barbie and let that stench fill the entire building. Fuck off to y’all!
Take a page from ye olde days of Elizabethan England. Dump your overflowing commode on them from your window and respond to their howls of protest with something like “Tuppence for a knee-trembler, Ducks”
They may not stop smoking but you’ll meet a whole bunch of new friends that way.
aah the olde gozunder..it goes under the bed or ye olde chamber pot
We had them at my Gram’s farmhouse on the Nashwaak. The bedrooms were upstairs, the loo was on the ground floor. It was a cool place to be a kid.
Do you have a choice to close your fucking window?
BT is right PK essentially she can close her window to keep the smoke outside. Fuck you’re dumb sometimes.
But balls we forgot the fucking world rotates around them. Unless they are doing something illegal, then fuck the right off.
I’m with Ninja Boot. If they get mad and try fighting you just remember you have the high ground.
I’d just spit out the window and say, “I can’t spit in my room yo.”
They probably *are* doing something illegal. Hallways in apartment buildings are probably in the same league as public buildings (they’re common areas) and as such there’s no smoking (because I’m sure people would be smoking there if they could), and in order for the smoke to cause a disturbance in OP’s apartment they’d have to smoke pretty close to the building, and as per city by law, there’s a minimum number of meters they have to be from a building to smoke. If they were smoking the min number of meters away OP wouldn’t be able to smell the smoke in their unit.
And why should someone have to close their window in their own apartment? Like you two would be accommodating if someone told you the same thing. Probably spout your same “world doesn’t revolve around you and your smoking” crap. Not being able to use all the facilities in your residence (including the option of opening windows) is pretty much the same as not being able to use a room. Everyone has the right to live comfortably in their own home and make full use of what they’re paying for.
sounds like you are in the pits, in real time, do you live in the basement, if so, i would suggest one of two things here. either suck it up, or at the worst, close your window.having an open window invites all kind of strange things to happen. whether you get a stray tom cat pissing on your window, someone smoking out it, or at the worst, someone coming in and raping you while you sleep.is this the next thing we will hear from you? i hope not. the only other sane option you have, is to find a place on the second floor somewhere else.
PK I suggest you read the law. The distance is from an entrance or an air vent, not the building itself. Further nowhere in the OB bitch did he or she say they were smoking in the hallway.
I didn’t state that they were smoking in the hallway nor did I think OP was talking about this person smoking in a hallway.
Reading comprehension. Get some.
And one could argue that a window serves the same purpose as an entrance. The whole idea of a ban on smoking near an entrance is to avoid smoke going in and out of the building and subjecting others to smoke. This is confirmed by the law including air vents. By smoking by the window, the smoker is allowing the smoke to enter the building and subjecting others to smoke. That could probably be challenged in court as canada’s legal system tends to work on precedent and case law.
“By smoking by the window, the smoker is allowing the smoke to enter the building and subjecting others to smoke.” No. The person that has the window open is doing that. They still do have the option of opening or closing the window. If you want to live in a bubble close your window. Don’t like neighbors, move. It’s the smokers resident too.
If there was noise pollution, would you scream out your window for everyone to shut-up? Or close the window?
If you smoke outside my window I reserve all right to dump water on you or to pee out the window. Feel free to come up and try and rag me out before I throw you down a couple flights of stairs. =D
These comments clearly show that all smokers are in fact assholes.
My downstairs neighbor smokes on her patio and when she does the smoke comes up through my patio door. I just close my door for a couple of minutes and then open it back up again when she is done.
This could be an option for you, could it not ?
Piss in a spray bottle…aim out window.
According to your logic, balls, it’s the fault of the people going in and out of a building through an entrance when they are subjected to smoke when someone smokes by the entrance breaking the by law…isn’t the by law designed to prevent that? Silly me for being so inconsiderate to those so blatently breaking laws to protect the health of those who don’t choose to harbour such a filthy, disgusting habit. How selfish are we, non smokers are to want to breathe clean air in our own apartments! Maybe we should all just not go into our apartment buildings at all because it’s our own fault we decided to come in and out through an entrance way! And clearly, it’s our job to bend over backwards to those who willingly choose to put their own health at risk (remember, smoking costs the health care system WAY more than fat people do! I’m so glad I was able to correct your obvious miscomprehension of the fact and figures in that thread, bro tim)
As for air vents — well of course it’s the fault of the tenants if smoke comes in! Silly us for wanting to use our air exchangers.
melectric’s right: it’s smokers like the ones in this thread that make all smokers look like assholes. You talk about non smokers as if we’re pieces of entitled shit, when it’s you people who have no consideration for others. Bunch of fucking hypocrites if you ask me.
For once I agree with sebastard whole heartedly.
Justify it all you want but smoking near an entrance of air (entrance, air vent, window, etc…) is just an asshole move.