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melancharisbron ([info]melancharisbron) wrote,
@ 2009-05-29 13:13:00

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Oh, joy: another environmentally-triggered migraine
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...

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[info]yonmei
2009-05-29 07:59 am UTC (link)
Tobacco.

Other than that: yes.

(When the law changed in Scotland, it was very amusing to me how suddenly pubs and such turned inside out: the tables/chairs on the pavements, which had previously been for non-smokers who really couldn't stand a tobacco-y fug, suddenly became resources for smokers who wanted to take their meal or a drink outside.)

Of course we don't reliably have a climate in Scotland that makes sitting outdoors a pleasant experience. It's nice today, though.

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[info]melancharisbron
2009-05-29 09:24 am UTC (link)
Spelling correction noted - I've spent too much time using the Japanese transliteration of it タバコ, which uses the syllables ta-ba-ko.

Put it down to the still-threatening headache...

if the wind's just a bit friskier, then smokers on terraces are actually okay. But today? Dead calm, to 1-2 km. In my direction. *le sigh*

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[info]yonmei
2009-05-29 10:19 am UTC (link)
I would not ordinarily bother to correct that kind of spelling mistake - except you'd already noted you were correcting another one... *weak smile*

Given how lovely it is to sit out on a terrace and enjoy the air and the sun, I do appreciate how unpleasant it is having a smoker go puff their foul air at you... especially if they are doing so on purpose. And cigarette smoke doesn't give me headaches. (Does make me cough, in an enclosed environment, but even on the stillest day the open air provides enough diffusion that I'm not normally bothered by it out of doors.)

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