May 08, 2002
Better Smoke get in your eyes than mine!
My publishing panic is over and all is well with my world thanks to some fellow bloggers here on Blogger.
Thank you Aaron B. wherever you are and thanks also to my fellow Bloggers who posted in the Discuss/Troubleshooting/User-to-user sections.
I'm dead tired tonight--it's the pause before Ariel Sharon lets loose his dogs of war again, but this time, I think we know what to expect and the end is looking near for Arafat and his Pal pals. "Time for them to go."
I've never shared my smoking problems until now, but they are legion. Last time I looked, cigarettes and tobacco and their use were still LEGAL, but you'd never know it!
I think most people *now* treat child molesters and rapists better than they do smokers!
I'm currently being bothered about my habit by my oral surgeon and my building manager...wonderful.
The periodontist claims that smoking retards the healing of gum tissue. OK, I might believe that partly.
It prolly doesn't help one's teeth and gum condition, but if all the smokers quit, wouldn't that guy see a lot of his patients disappear? Do you think he secretly wants to send every one of his smokers a fruit basket?
The building manager is a bit "concerned" because the odor of our smoking (the couple that smokes together, stays together) from the apartment can be detected "in the hall."
Oh, dear.
What if Hillary Clinton came here? She would pitch a fit.
Her hubby Beezlebubba was more concerned that Hitlery found out he'd been smoking a cigar in the Oval Office than that he was getting a hummer from a girl young enough to be his daughter, not to mention engaging in conduct unbecoming the gravitas of the Presidency!
Now I know the residual smells of smoking in buildings isn't the best, but what about my fellow tenants who were cooking garlic?
(That, you could smell all over the building!)
And then there's the air freshener the landlord has sprayed in all the common areas---Citrus/Floral/Spice Surprise. Heavy, dank, cloying--to some, *this* is air pollution.
How I wish I were a heroin addict or an old-fashioned alcoholic some days; then my vice wouldn't announce itself in an olfactory way to one and all. But then, most addicts and drunks usually smoke,too, so I'd still be busted.
I wonder if I were smoking pot instead of tobacco if the complaint would be the same....
Be that as it may, I've invested heavily in Glade plug-ins, Carpet Fresh, Clorox everything and even a $400 "ionic" air filtering machine in hopes that it will mask or destroy the *stench* eminating from my indulgence of my right to smoke a legal product!
G-d knows, the Founding Fathers not only made the future of this country on tobacco from growing it and selling it, but the Constitution was written on paper made from hemp!
Americans have the inalienable rights to smoke, eat or drink whatever they choose, even if it's bad for them (and that includes illegal drugs, BTW, but the inanity of the War on Drugs is a topic for another day)!
But "it takes a village" of PC Police like Hitlery to make us stop exercising those rights.
Dammit, if I have to move to France to smoke, I'm not going to be happy.
