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A\u00a0post or two ago I discussed my sheer glee at the long-awaited return of spring.\u00a0 This stills holds true for me, but I realized that spring brings something else with it – the uninhibited smoker.\u00a0 For most of winter these\u00a0folks\u00a0hide from the elements\u00a0in cars, doorways, and alleys, but at this time of year they are free to roam about as they please, exhaling in the general direction of passers-by.<\/p>\n
Now don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 I was once a smoker and I know how it feels to be shunned,\u00a0sent outdoors, and endlessly harrassed about the dangers of smoking.\u00a0\u00a0I also know the reality of having the precious few places where your habit is acceptable begin to vanish before your eyes…I get it.\u00a0 Tough times.\u00a0 BUT I think I was always a conscientious smoker.\u00a0 I made efforts not to be in the way or to let that stream of smoke from the end of my cigarette trail towards the only non-smoker in the room.\u00a0 And I don’t see the same kind of respect very often anymore.\u00a0 It’s almost as if the smokers have banded together to\u00a0punish those who have\u00a0wronged them, i.e. non-smokers.<\/p>\n
So I guess that’s why it bothers me to have to hold my breath and duck out of the way of the long line of smokers who crowd the front of my office building.\u00a0 There is a sign (or should I say ‘small sticker’) posted that clearly says NO SMOKING WITHIN 9 METERS OF THE DOOR.\u00a0 No one follows this rule.\u00a0 I often feel the urge to point it out, but I haven’t had the guts to yet.\u00a0 Then I’d always just be ‘that girl’ to them.\u00a0\u00a0 My suggestion: change the sign to NO SMOKING WITHIN 9 METERS OF THE DOOR or you risk being kicked in the kneecaps.\u00a0 I think that would get their attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Has anyone seen my steel-toed boots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A\u00a0post or two ago I discussed my sheer glee at the long-awaited return of spring.\u00a0 This stills holds true for me, but I realized that spring brings something else with it – the uninhibited smoker.\u00a0 For most of winter these\u00a0folks\u00a0hide from the elements\u00a0in cars, doorways, and alleys, but at this time of year they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[37,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}