My house is a “smoke-free” zone. I know that cramps the style of my smoker friends and family. I realize it’s a pain in the ass to go outside for your fix. I provide a receptacle to put your butts in when I invite you over, and once you leave I flush the filth down the toilet and wash the dish.
My beef is when you drop in unexpectedly, you pull up in your car that you smoke in with the window down “so your car doesn’t smell like an ashtray” (uh, yes it does) and put your cigarette out on my paved driveway right in front of my door AND LEAVE IT THERE! At least have the decency to pick up your stomped on butts. How about grinding them into my kitchen floor? At least then I can just sweep them into the corner and hoover them up once a week. Why would you even think this is ok? The next time I come visit you I’m going to throw my empty chip bag into your rose bushes or fire my pop can up on your deck before I come in your house. —Your Butts Burn My Ass
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2011.
Good Bitch,
For some reason people think littering cigerette butts is “OK”
It’s not. Stop doing it.
It is a pain to be a friend of smokers.
You FLUSH THEM?????
Why do you think our lobsters are so irritable and jumpy?
They stink up the garbage can. I’d flush them too cigs are nastyyyy.
i don’t think this guy would be very tasty http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/12…
He fared better than Pinchy >: ( Rooooooooo.
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I wish I could buy that big old boy and set him free, pg. Ya live that long, you deserve some respect!
Oh – and wrap up the butts in tinfoil and straight outside to the garbage. Sheesh.
i was gonna add that commander but i figured you would^^ that one claw is bigger than my head snubiz
I’d say he should be put out to stud. Pass on those survivor’s genes.
Oh – I just read the article! They did release him! Yay!!!
takes too much time o.p., and common sense.need i say more?
I have a friend like this, and I’ve observed that certain smokers, not all, but many of them seem to have little gross habits that I don’t think they even notice, because smoking is such a part of their life that they have blinders. Anyway, her habit is when we’re hanging out together and she flicks the ashes, she won’t notice if some drift onto me. It’s not a big deal or anything…but it’s something you’d think someone would notice? If their ashes were drifting onto someone else? I think this throw-your-butt-anywhere thing is a part of that.
maybe if you stopped spitting all over her when you talk, spewing your verbal diarrhea, she’s return the favor and flick away from you….
OP, don’t bother inviting them over. Instead, go to their house when you all want to gather and leave a big shit in their toilet. See if they enjoy cleaning up after you. When they complain, say “Hey, reminds me of that shit you leave in my yard.”
Your ‘smoke free’ house/area + smoking friend = a mess and angst for you. Hmmmm?? Basic math tells you that some subtraction may equal no mess or angst. Many non-smoking people in the world that you can have as friends. Just take the steps needed, if you feel so hard done by, and you are free. The ‘butts’ are in your court.
The smokers at work often flick their cigarette butts into the bark mulch around the shrubs leaving that lovely smouldering odour. Someone usually has to pour their water or coffee on it. Not even the common decency to step on the butt when they litter, just flick somewhere flammable. I’m glad the cardboard dumpster is nowhere near where they smoke.
Maybe we can get one of those cigarette butt thingies that are weighted at the bottom with a tube and a little hole you shove the butt in.
I also notice that almost all the smokers at work are young women. Are young ladies the largest smoking demographic now?
i hate the flick troodon. who remembers really heavy sand ashtrays? in airports and your doctors office
I feel horrible shame… and I don’t even do any of these things… except smoke. Which puts me on par with Bin Laden obviously. Problem with the non-smoking movement (all hail those better than me) is that in your desire to control you did not look far enough into the future. Must smoke outside… all outdoor ashtrays taken away… blank butt and put in tin in pocket. Dispose of properly. That’s what I do. Others, not so much… then again maybe smokers do it as a big FU… I don’t know.
What I do know is that I hate when people paint everyone who does something they don’t like with the same giant brush!
That being said; totally legit bitch. Some smokers need to give their heads a shake and stop embarrassing the rest of us… the militant non-smokers are doing a fine job of that.
Flame away my friends!
rosie my love^^it’s easier to paint things with a big brush. you can come and smoke on our side porch or in our backyard anytime xox