The back of the Airplane...

[The Fool]

I was so touched yesterday by your generous responses to my *Did you smoke for decades* thread that it brought up a sweet memory that I wanted to share with all of you and hear your stories.

Remember way back before 9/11 when flying was a fun, social thing to do? It was one of the very first places where smoking was restricted, we had to sit in the back of the plane. The memory that I had yesterday, when so many of you reached out your hand to me in friendship here was that I knew several non-smokers who CHOSE to sit in the back of the plane with us because they said that the smokers were more fun. I swear I'm not lying, and it was true, you could hear people laughing and joking back there while the front rows were stone silent.

We all know what happened in the ensuing years, smokers became the lepers of the 20th Century. Still, I think that there is a grain of truth in the fact that whatever part of our personalities led us to pick up the smoking habit in the first place, may, on the positive side, have provided us with fun loving spirits. I know that's what I felt coming from all of you yesterday. Cheers

 

[NanC]

I do remember...and miss...those days! I don't mean I miss smoking, but miss not living in a nanny-state.

I enjoyed your earlier post so much...brought tears to my eyes, actually...but I was too busy to post at the time. Welcome, welcome welcome!

I'm 54 and smoked for 38 years, but don't really remember what I paid for them then...that was back in the days when a pack could last me a whole week!

Again, welcome!

Oh, and yes...smokers were/are always more fun!!!

 

[rusalka]

i feel we are more fun as well. that is why I started smoking in the first place.

 

[glowgirl]

I agree, smokers are less tightly wound and usually more tolerant. Not that I haven't met nice non-smokers but a lot of them are so judgmental.

 

[stover.p]

I remember those days...............The smoking section. You can't even find a smoking section in a smoke shop anymore! I remember as a kid my mom sending me to the store to get her "the ones with the target on front" is all I could remember at the time. I was 5! The first pack of smokes I bought was .90 but I was also in college. I didn't start smoking until then. Now being smoke free is such a new adventure. I can smell and taste again........

Congrats on your 6 months and keep it up

 

[DC2]

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table. ~Michelle Pfeiffer

 

[Shaka]

Hi Ms. noFool. Love your avatar.

Always enjoy your posts... maybe because it's things only us, uh, more "mature" members can reminisce about.

"Fun loving spirit" Yup, I can live with that description! lol

 

[sherid]

I was so touched yesterday by your generous responses to my *Did you smoke for decades* thread that it brought up a sweet memory that I wanted to share with all of you and hear your stories.

Remember way back before 9/11 when flying was a fun, social thing to do? It was one of the very first places where smoking was restricted, we had to sit in the back of the plane. The memory that I had yesterday, when so many of you reached out your hand to me in friendship here was that I knew several non-smokers who CHOSE to sit in the back of the plane with us because they said that the smokers were more fun. I swear I'm not lying, and it was true, you could hear people laughing and joking back there while the front rows were stone silent.

We all know what happened in the ensuing years, smokers became the lepers of the 20th Century. Still, I think that there is a grain of truth in the fact that whatever part of our personalities led us to pick up the smoking habit in the first place, may, on the positive side, have provided us with fun loving spirits. I know that's what I felt coming from all of you yesterday. Cheers

I am a teacher. Up until the mid 1990's we had smoking lounges in school. There was also a non-smoking lounge. The smoking lounge was always packed and one of the loudest, funniest places you could imagine. There were some anti-smokers then also who would come in waving their hands through the smoke and complaining. Invariably, though, when someone suggested that they go, instead, to the non-smoking lounge; they would say it was no fun there. They would then sit down and join the fun. I retired a few years ago, but my friends who are still teaching tell me the lounge is no longer any fun. People come in, get a drink, and go back to their rooms to work alone. Denormalization of smokers has cost us many unnecessary social opportunities and has isolated not only smokers but also the non-smokers who liked hanging out with us.

 

[lovinlife]

Talking about smoking in the airplanes. As a child a remember adults smoking in the grocery stores, and the carts having ashtrays of some sort attached to them. Just the other day I was in a locl grocery store and with out even thinking pulled out my e-ciggy and started smoking mmmm . . . Then a young man approached me about what ZI was doing . . . by the time I got done talking to him I am pretty sure he went and got himself one of his own. LOL ! ! ! Leave it to the "smokers/Vapers" to talk to just about anybody - including a stranger!