Okay, for my smoking friends... you don't want to read this next bit. I just need to vent a bit.

If it were up to me, Belgium wouldn't just stop at banning cigarette smoke from a variety of indoor places - it would go the whole hog, and make ta tobacco illegal. I am sick to the back teeth of sitting on a terrace, comfortably enjoying my place under the sunshade, out of the strong sun, but then having several people park at a near-by table and light up.

Worse, the fresh cigarette smoke triggers every other smoker near-by into lighting up yet another ciggie. Damn it if I were not the absolutely only person who was NOT smoking.

And to the old lady who thought she was going to smoke me out of my chair? I paid for my damn drink, same as you. Trying to actually check if I was still downwind of your effluvience was just plain rude. Too bad I didn't have a flatulance-making meal the previous couple hours - it would have been delivered, all just for you. And I would have enjoyed it.

Okie-dokie </rant> The lovely friends who happen to be regular users of ta tobacco can tune in once more.

ETA - well, actually, to subtract - a spelling error, due to the distraction of an over-tight jaw and still-incipent headache...