Worst experience smoking in public?

[plantlvr]

Was thinking about this the other day, would like to hear all of yours.
I was working a route in downtown San Francisco awhile ago taking care of office and restaurant plants. I stopped in a smoking area outside a building [lots of other smokers there] but there was no ashtray.So I walked over to the gutter and stomped it out. As I was walking away a woman started screaming at me because I dared do that next to her parked car! I mean she was really letting me have it. I should have picked up the .... and tossed it in a garbage can [ I usually do but not that day]. I looked at her license plate and it was a Diplomat plate! That cracked me up, and I yelled back at her to 'stick it where the sun don't shine'.
All in all a very unpleasant experience.

 

[JenJen]

One experience sticks in my mind. This was about 6 years ago and I was at the Wild Animal Park in San Diego. I stepped away from people and lit a cigarette. Honestly, the closest person to me was at least 50 feet away, I had snuck off to an off the beaten path area where nobody was. Well for some reason, this woman with a stroller and a toddler came walking up to me, sniffed the air with disgust and gave me the look. I looked right back at her and asked "can I help you?" I mean there was NO reason for her to come over to where I was. She said "You are smoking?" I said "Yes, I am. Which is why I walked way over here away from where any people are. It was your choice to come walking up to me so if you don't like it, I suggest you leave and take your nasty looks with you!" She gave me another pissy look and walked off. I must have been PMSing because generally I don't get nasty with people like that, but she just ...... me off! lol It's not like I walked up to HER and lit up. I was trying to be polite!

As I have said many times, it will be legal to stone smokers in California within the decade! Mark my words!

 

[plantlvr]

That was just rude of her, honestly some people....The woman who yelled at me wasn't even in her car for cryin out loud! She saw me snuff my cig as she was walking to her car, I was half a block away when she started screaming at me! Some diplomat she was

 

[martha1014]

I was outside at my son's house smoking a cigarette. My grandson had gotten a new bike for Christmas. He asked me not to blow smoke on his new bike. I just said okay. Other than this I have never experienced any kinda of problems.

 

[SharpandPointy]

There is a very nice Italian Restaurant my wife go to on occasion. After 10pm, they used let you smoke in the bar. (not any more) Like myself, the owner is a cigar smoker and I bring him a nice cigar when I go there. So my wife and I are sitting at the bar and I lit up a cigar. Some distinguished looking woman from the other side of the bar yelled across "That thing is disgusting, put it out?! I looked calmly at her from across the bar and said " I'm terribly sorry ma'am, I just lit this up to cover up the smell of that cheap perfume you are wearing" I can say that she was more than flabergasted but the guy she was with had all he could do to keep from laughing.

 

[MeMa]

There is a very nice Italian Restaurant my wife go to on occasion. After 10pm, they used let you smoke in the bar. (not any more) Like myself, the owner is a cigar smoker and I bring him a nice cigar when I go there. So my wife and I are sitting at the bar and I lit up a cigar. Some distinguished looking woman from the other side of the bar yelled across "That thing is disgusting, put it out?! I looked calmly at her from across the bar and said " I'm terribly sorry ma'am, I just lit this up to cover up the smell of that cheap perfume you are wearing" I can say that she was more than flabergasted but the guy she was with had all he could do to keep from laughing.

that is hysterical SharpandPointy! I've been dying to say that to more than a few women and the cologne on some men! yikes - I just want to say 'soap is less expensive than that cheap cologne and smells better!"

 

[rocks82]

There is a very nice Italian Restaurant my wife go to on occasion. After 10pm, they used let you smoke in the bar. (not any more) Like myself, the owner is a cigar smoker and I bring him a nice cigar when I go there. So my wife and I are sitting at the bar and I lit up a cigar. Some distinguished looking woman from the other side of the bar yelled across "That thing is disgusting, put it out?! I looked calmly at her from across the bar and said " I'm terribly sorry ma'am, I just lit this up to cover up the smell of that cheap perfume you are wearing" I can say that she was more than flabergasted but the guy she was with had all he could do to keep from laughing.

I love the masshole attitude.

guy @ a work softball game "ugh... you SMOKE!? revolting. You do know you're LITERALLY killing me right now" I replied "not fast enough" and blew him a kiss.


add on experience:
When I was about 20, I was staying at my sister's place for a weekend. Trip got extended by a day due to a really nasty blizzard. I was bundled up to step outside and smoke when my sister's b---h roommate grabbed the unlit cigarette out of my hand and broke it into little pieces while saying "Smoking is SO bad"

I was seeing red. That was my ONLY cigarette left. I resisted, but I wanted to knock her out cold.

 

[Zofryer]

Ten thousand years ago when I was a punk rocker with three foot liberty spiked hair, I was standing outside a club in athens, georgia, minding my own business, smoking a marlboro red. This cult had form inside punk called "straight edge". Their brainwashed followers believed in "no sex, no drugs, no alcohol, no meat" or something like that. And in all fairness, I was friends with a few of the kids and hanging around with most of them wasn't any more irritating than being trapped on an elevator with a smarter Kirk Cameron with better taste in music. They had that far off pelosi stare thing going on, but they were tolerable. I even knew a few that smoked.

So I'm outside this club and up walks a group of three of these guys with their "sXe" patches and poorly done ink pen tattoo's.

"You don't need that <explicative>" said their fearless leader and pulled my lit cigarette from my mouth, and threw it on the ground and stomped on it.

Granted, if a group of my friends hadn't been standing 20 something yards away and witnessed the entire exchange, I probably wouldn't have hit him so hard. I was your typical image conscious teen and had no choice. His friends scampered away. He picked him self up, apologized, and left.

And on that note,

Yanno kids, I know you are bombarded by violence in popular media, and peer pressure can be overwhelming at times, and violence actually can be very effectively used to end confrontations, but it's never your best choice.

 

[Stephaniems]

Knocking the hell out of someone taking something out of your hands and tearing it up is human nature male or female. Never has anyone ever taken anything out of my hands like that before and I seriously don't recommend it. Brain turns off instincts turn on.

Thats just rude.

 

[youfillintheblank]

one time, just to be weird, I put a lit cigarette in the mouth of a Santa statue that was in the mall I used to work at. We used to smoke in the service hallways, nobody really cared. This was just at closing time, christmas was just over, the mall was DEAD and the Santa was near the service door. There was a gap between his lips, he was asking for it, it was the perfect fit for a cigarettte.

I witnessed a security guard (who smoked) walk by it, notice the anomaly on Santa, take the cigarette out of Santa's mouth at the same time one of the mall managers walked out of the service door. He thought the guard was smoking in the mall hallway and commenced to giving him s**t. I felt BAD, but also too afraid to admit it, I know he explained the situation and talked his way out of it, he didn't get fired or anything.

 

[Pugzley]

Way back in 1985, I was at a McDonald's drive through in Guam. It was 7 in the morning and I was smoking, stopped to get something to eat on the way to work. My ashtray had been stolen out of my car (my car was stolen a month before and they took it.)

I was casually flipping my ashes out the window as I waited for my food. I noticed this guy, a woman and 2 small kids in the car behind me in my rearview mirror. I swear, I didn't know what was going on but they all seemed to be getting more and more excited back there.

So, I smoked the cig down to the .... and flipped it out the window. *ell, spit and corruption! The guy literally leapt from his compact car and ran to my window as hard as his fat little legs would carry him. He flashes a badge at me. Says EPA on it. Tells me to get the blank outta my car and pick up that .... or he's going to give me a big ticket right there on the spot.

Well, I'm flabbergasted to say the least. So, I open up my door and look down on the ground. There' must have been two hundred cigarette butts on the ground. Everyone must have flipped theirs out where I did mine.

I said, which .... is mine? He says I don't know just pick one up.

I said, when you can prove which one is mine, I'll happily pick it up.

He was so mad, his face was red. I could see the "family" practically bouncing up and down in their car with excitement.

I told him to sod off and got my food and left him standing out there with his mouth hanging open. EPA my unowhat.

Feh. I was shaking when it was over though. Really made me mad to be accosted like that on private property by someone like him.