I'm really convinced of this, at least where I live.
Classes started last week and already I have had a dozen people asking me if I was smoking illegal drugs. Some even asking to share with them. I educated them, but they immediately get turned off.
Besides that, I have been given a hard time on multiple occasions.
I walk into my favorite local coffee shop and ask them if they allow electronic cigarettes. They pause, and say I have to take it outside on the patio. No big deal, its a beautiful day outside. I sit outside enjoying my vape, coffee, meal, and a good book. All of a sudden the owner (possibly a manager) starts telling me that I can't have "that" on the premises, much less smoke it. I ask him what he thought it was, and he said it was for a specific illegal substance. I tell him no and what it was, and start to explain what it is in the juice when he asks me, "and I'm supposed to just believe you?" This irked me, why did he have to be so rude? I sure wasn't trying to be. He eventually just asks me to leave, so I pay my tab and sit on the bench across the street to finish my coffee. Not sure if I will be taking my business there anymore.
A second time was on campus. Before I ever vaped inside, I talked with campus security to make sure it was ok. They asked me to show them my mod and what it "produces" (the vapor cloud). They said I could, under their own discretion. During a break from one of my classes, I stepped in the hall to have a vape, having a conversation with one of my buddies. A professor walks out of a classroom, does a double take, and tells me I can't smoke in here. I tell him that its not smoking, just vapor, and that I had checked with security to make sure it was ok. He simply replied, "look, I don't make the rules and I'll call campus security to make sure...yadayada." I stopped and went back to class.
Tonight, in a nearly empty building, I had a night class. Again, on break, my teacher asks me to take it outside. Ok, ok, I need to vape outside (or in a secluded staircase). But then she said that it contained formaldehyde. Huh? I don't even bother with that.
In conclusion, I now only vape outside where it isn't crowded. Winter is coming and I'm not looking forward to it. Luckily, I can vape inside my work building and found a coffee shop that has no problem with it.
Am I being rude or irrational here? I try to always make sure no one has a problem with my vaping before I do it inside, but someone always seems to have issues.
Alright, excessively long vent over.
Classes started last week and already I have had a dozen people asking me if I was smoking illegal drugs. Some even asking to share with them. I educated them, but they immediately get turned off.
Besides that, I have been given a hard time on multiple occasions.
I walk into my favorite local coffee shop and ask them if they allow electronic cigarettes. They pause, and say I have to take it outside on the patio. No big deal, its a beautiful day outside. I sit outside enjoying my vape, coffee, meal, and a good book. All of a sudden the owner (possibly a manager) starts telling me that I can't have "that" on the premises, much less smoke it. I ask him what he thought it was, and he said it was for a specific illegal substance. I tell him no and what it was, and start to explain what it is in the juice when he asks me, "and I'm supposed to just believe you?" This irked me, why did he have to be so rude? I sure wasn't trying to be. He eventually just asks me to leave, so I pay my tab and sit on the bench across the street to finish my coffee. Not sure if I will be taking my business there anymore.
A second time was on campus. Before I ever vaped inside, I talked with campus security to make sure it was ok. They asked me to show them my mod and what it "produces" (the vapor cloud). They said I could, under their own discretion. During a break from one of my classes, I stepped in the hall to have a vape, having a conversation with one of my buddies. A professor walks out of a classroom, does a double take, and tells me I can't smoke in here. I tell him that its not smoking, just vapor, and that I had checked with security to make sure it was ok. He simply replied, "look, I don't make the rules and I'll call campus security to make sure...yadayada." I stopped and went back to class.
Tonight, in a nearly empty building, I had a night class. Again, on break, my teacher asks me to take it outside. Ok, ok, I need to vape outside (or in a secluded staircase). But then she said that it contained formaldehyde. Huh? I don't even bother with that.
In conclusion, I now only vape outside where it isn't crowded. Winter is coming and I'm not looking forward to it. Luckily, I can vape inside my work building and found a coffee shop that has no problem with it.
Am I being rude or irrational here? I try to always make sure no one has a problem with my vaping before I do it inside, but someone always seems to have issues.
Alright, excessively long vent over.
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