Consider yourself asked.
I would like to live vicariously.
I've never had an ANTZ say anything to me about vaping.
I can only hope that someday...
Ha! Okay. -
First off for everyone else, TL;DR: Just skip to the next post, this is anecdotal.
There is a busy bus stop. I despise it. I'm in a city
(No point in driving.) where there are usually 20-30+ people. More when it is bad weather. Waiting for the bus I decided to vape. I'd seen other vapers in the wild in that area on break so I did what they did. With everyone piled over at the bus stop, and not wanting an argument, I walked maybe 15-20 feet away over to the wall. Near no building entrance doors and where no one was standing. I'm vaping away, quiet. Nautilus Mini so I'm obviously not chucking clouds. It was a S'mores liquid so it wasn't pungent.
A family of six stops halfway between the crowd and me and starts chatting with someone knew going in the opposite direction. I go back to vaping and check the time. The teenage girl with them walks directly over no more than a foot away, dead center. The teenager starts open mouth forced cough/hacking, and I mean hacking at/on me directly, while glaring.
I'm not the most intimidating looking person in the world, which is why I'm guessing the teenager thought she could get away with it. I got ....... I went from 0 to 60 in a split second. I screamed at her while pointing that I was standing away from everyone else intentionally and to not stand in front of me and to get away,
now. As the teen walked away I'm still screaming that coughing at someone was a good way to get attacked by a stranger. That she was lucky that I wasn't someone unstable.
(Disclaimer: This is the internet, I might be unstable for all we know.)
The adult motions to act like he was going to say something to me and I just shook my head 'no' while glaring. I honestly thought I was going to end up in a fight for screaming at his teenager coughing on me. I continued to vape for another five minutes until the bus showed up. The adults said nothing but started coughing as I walked past without the PV in my hands. I let loose with a string of obscenities that still hangs over the harbor today.
They stopped. - Life went on. The bus ride sucked as we were packed in like sardines.
That was the only time 'in the wild' I had problems as a vaper with strangers.
(By telling this story, I'm probably jinxing myself.)
That day I just had enough. I hated when people would open mouth fake cough at me as a smoker. I treated this no different. - If I had been cloud chasing that day those people would have lost their minds.
