This is one of the more unusual threads I can remember.
This is one of the more unusual threads I can remember.
"Thread discipline". That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on DBR.
It is my homage to the "well actually" crowd.
When the banned smoking in bars in Seattle, they did it on a predictably overreactive way. You couldn't smoke inside, of course. But you also couldn't smoke within 100 feet (I believe) of an entrance to a building.
So, when the ban took effect, they did a newscast where they stood in the single place one could legally smoke downtown - the center of a large intersection.
Love you Seattle - never change.
During my "working" career, I marveled at the exiled smokers who would go outside at five degrees below zero to sneak a but every hour or so...they brought dedication to their craft.
no they did not. But as a dedicated obit reader, I note that quite a few of those guys have moved on to the celestial smoking parlor.
p.s. eventually my employer even banned smoking anywhere on the premises, inside or out...there tended to be a Wall of Smoke near many of the doors...
At my first job out of college, I worked at a corporate HQ with a few hundred people. We had a company-wide event and I noticed that the admin for my small department seemed to know the CEO really well (not insinuating anything in poor taste). Afterwards I asked her how she knew him and she said they were both smokers so spent a lot of time outside together.
In my job of repairing X-ray equipment, I found some of the heaviest smokers were X-ray technicians and nurses. Smoking was even allowed in cardiac cath labs . . . during cardiac caths!!! Most X-ray equipment had a yellowish tint from years of smoking in the rooms.