Got a short funny story.

[aka_Queenie]

These are amazing! I'm still to scared too whip it right out. I sneak vape in restaurants. LOL Of course being in Cali it probably *is* illegal.

 

[Allan.GH]

...However, if I do catch someone staring, I'll just stare back. Depending on the situation, I'll even take a hit or two off my PV while maintaining eye-contact (there are rules, after all) just to send the message that I'm not gonna stop just because of an disapproving stare. My daily-driver is a Darwin with a SS CE2, sporting a bright orange drip-tip, so there's no confusing it with an analog, even for the stupid...

This is how my mind works: If that happened with me, you know...that I stared because I haven't seen anyone else vaping in public...I'd keep starting for a bit, then take out my PV and give it a hit. It would make for a nice story. LOL

 

[Off Topic]

I vape everywhere. I don't try to hide it, but I don't blow it in people's faces either. So far no one has said anything, but I'm ready.

"I'm sorry, does the smell of blueberries offend you?"

 

[Baldr]

oops - posted to wrong thread.

 

[jpargana]

one of the moms comes up to me and says "Your setting a bad example for my children". With an analog in between her fingers.

Oh my! So, there were you, engaging in a perfecly legal activity, and a much safer one than smoking (the mother wannabe doesn't mind smoking, by the way, it's the vaping that upsets her...)
Well, if she really believes that what you're doing is morally unacceptable, then it's her job as a mother to explain to her kids that in her opinion, what you're doing is wrong. It's not your job to educate her kids. I mean, what comes next? "You can't have ice cream anywhere near my kid, because he's on a diet?". Some people...

 

[Dying2Live]

this is mainly the reason I stealth vape. it's overdramatic people out there that make me feel weird about enjoying my pleasurable vape anywhere I'd like. but every now and than I get in my moods where i just don't give a crap and do what I want where I want.

 

[Nikkita6]

Know how some off those anti smoking people just go way over board? Like the ones that throw caughing fits when they see you smoking 30 feet away?

Well, the other day I was in friends car while he was picking up some food, i got bored and took my vap out to take a few puffs, and i see like the fifty some year old lady like ten feet away in her car with the waffing the air away and caughing hysterically. And to top it off, the window on the side of the car she was close to was closed. Some people just agitate the hell out of me.

LMFAO.... it is amazing how full of crap ppl can be

 

[Uma]

Know how some off those anti smoking people just go way over board? Like the ones that throw caughing fits when they see you smoking 30 feet away?

Well, the other day I was in friends car while he was picking up some food, i got bored and took my vap out to take a few puffs, and i see like the fifty some year old lady like ten feet away in her car with the waffing the air away and caughing hysterically. And to top it off, the window on the side of the car she was close to was closed. Some people just agitate the hell out of me.

Before I discovered vaping, that old lady coughing her head off would have been me... except with a cigarette in her hand waiting to be lit.

 

[JoeDLion188]

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E-cig story. While vaping in a park and sitting on a bench, 50 ft. away from the playground one of the moms comes up to me and says "Your setting a bad example for my children". With an analog in between her fingers. I proceeded to look up and stare he down for a good ten seconds. I just said "What? How can you say that with an actual cigarette between your finger and I'm smoking an e-cig." She just walked away after that.

The only thing that would make that funnier is if she also had Bud in her hand!

 

[Poeia]

I vape everywhere. I don't try to hide it, but I don't blow it in people's faces either. So far no one has said anything, but I'm ready.

"I'm sorry, does the smell of blueberries offend you?"

My planned comeback has always been a puzzled "You're afraid of second-hand waffle?"

This being New York City, I've never needed it. I've had a couple of people ask me if it was one of those electric things (neither of my Chucks could be confused with anything else) but that's it.

 

[Taegost]

I have a somewhat perverse sense of humor sometimes. For example, I have started having an argument with myself in an elevator just to horrify whoever else is there if they seem sort of uptight. This is especially fun if my husband is around because he often plays the straight man -- he'll look at them apologetically and explain that my meds were just changed but he doesn't THINK I am dangerous, etc.

So I hopped on an elevator alone, it stopped at the next floor for someone to hop on; and I had been vaping. I had the e-cig in my hand. She looks all horrified, and asks "what's that!?" Okay ... I'm a bad girl I know ... I calmly explained to her that I am a scientist (true) and it was a secret mind control weapon (not true) in development to which the user is immune; but everyone who inhales the scentless vapor becomes highly suggestible. I explained she shouldn't worry because her exposure in the elevator is minimal but she should avoid timeshare salesman for the next few hours.

I did it totally straight and serious, and I think she really believed me because I could see her in the far corner holding her breath. LOL!! When she got off I laughed so hard I almost fell down and peed myself!

That has to be the best response ever... A woman after my own heart

 

[Nikkita6]

My planned comeback has always been a puzzled "You're afraid of second-hand waffle?"

This being New York City, I've never needed it. I've had a couple of people ask me if it was one of those electric things (neither of my Chucks could be confused with anything else) but that's it.

hehehehehe .... I am stealing both of these

 

[bigtiime]

I may be a bit more tolerant of people. We have to realize that for the last oooh . . .200 years or so, "you see inhale and exhale, you think smoke". Very funny stories! ty!

 

[Poeia]

I may be a bit more tolerant of people. We have to realize that for the last oooh . . .200 years or so, "you see inhale and exhale, you think smoke". Very funny stories! ty!

I understand thinking it's smoke. In most situations I ask before I vape. If someone asks me what it is or asks me not to "smoke" I'm more than willing to explain politely how a PV works. But the people who make a big show of choking aren't just assuming it's smoke, they are behaving rudely and obnoxiously based on that assumption. I'm happy to be rude to people like that in return.

 

[Creniker]

I had a young boy walk up to me on Halloween, maybe 11 or 12. He had just come from the house where I was watching and taking picture of my little boy with my wife as he trick or treated. I was vaping and he said "You smell like smoke." I laughed and said "No I don't." He looked confused (when his mother said this, she never got this response) and I explained to him that I was using a electronic cigarette, which was not producing smoke, and I had not smoked in months, so there was no way I smelled like smoke. He said "ohhhh." and walked away. Many a time have had the cough-er as well. If they continue to stand by me, I blow it in there direction while smiling. I just don't have the patience for it. I know it doesn't smell bad. I have this woman at work who get there the same time as I do, and we have to wait by the door for our manager to open it. I vape while I wait and one day she said, "That smells delicious." I replied "It taste delicious." The point to this nonsensical paragraph is that some people are just a little more open minded then others. Don't feel like you should tolerate people just because they choose to be judgmental.

And rustybikes, I do the same thing, and can't wait to use my similarly thought up response when someone finally says something.

 

[Jaguar G]

E-cig story. While vaping in a park and sitting on a bench, 50 ft. away from the playground one of the moms comes up to me and says "Your setting a bad example for my children". With an analog in between her fingers. I proceeded to look up and stare he down for a good ten seconds. I just said "What? How can you say that with an actual cigarette between your finger and I'm smoking an e-cig." She just walked away after that.

Here you go...

 

[mariahpoo]

Here you go...

Wow! Just Wow....

 

[AddyTude]

I have been pretty lucky I guess...When my boss found out i was vaping - she said "Cool, you can do that right at your desk!"
I told her i was hesitant in case anyone went to HR or something...she then suggested I blow it right at them...LOL.
Very unexpected! She's pretty straightlaced and a former smoker. Heck, she even told her boss' boss (VP) that I was vaping, and that it was cool to vape at the desk. I thought I was in twilight zone.