I just smoked in a pub!
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It was so liberating. Absolutely great. I haven't enjoyed smoking this much since I was 14 behind the bike sheds at school.
A nice quiet pub, the Oxted Inn if you know it, sitting at an empty table watching Top Gear, I thought "
it, I'm going away tomorrow anyway, what's the worst that can happen?" (For those who don't know, I'm going to New Zealand tomorrow with no immediate plans to come back)
So I lit up a quiet cigarette thinking I'm still sober enough to make my apologies and leave should anyone say anything. I smoked, carried on watching TV and no one said a thing. I finished my cig, flicked it out the door and went to get another beer.
Sat down with a fresh pint, carried on watching Clarkson et al struggling across the desert in beaten up old cars. Great television I thought, and carried on drinking.
At 9:52 I look at my phone to check the time and thought, it, I can catch the last 5 mins on YouTube let's see how serious they are about this smoking ban? So I lit up another. Again no one said anything, except the girl sitting opposite who had just come in from a cold stand outside to smoke - she looked at me suspiciously:
"Yes" said I "I'm breaking the law - I'm a criminal"
She laughed and said "Good for you!"
Finished my cigarette, watched the last minute of the programme and went outside to see two old boys smoking in the freezing cold. "Go inside!" said I "No one cares a jot if you smoke, and it's warm in there, with beer!"
The both killed themselves laughing. One was a bit nervous and British about it, while the other was all for me, shaking my hand and telling me how great it was that someone was prepared to stick up for basic decency. Carried on smoking and laughing with them just inside the door of the pub until it was time to go - my none smoking girlfriend had arrived and was killing herself laughing at the site of blatant law breaking in a public place, being loudly and enthusiastically celebrated by obviously good, decent citizens.
All in all, it'sing great to break the law and get away with it, when the law is quite clearly an ass. It's a clear moral principle that the right to determine the smoking policy of a building rests with the owner of that building and no one else. I urge everyone, smoker or not, to light up in a pub for the sheer sense of righteousness it gives you over the idiotic law makers who decide that one, nannying policy should apply to all establishments, at all times, everywhere, and think this is a reasonable way to run a country. It is not. It never was and it's up to you me and everyone else with a functioning mind to make sure that our outright refusal to listen to their stupid laws ensures it never will be.
A nice quiet pub, the Oxted Inn if you know it, sitting at an empty table watching Top Gear, I thought "
it, I'm going away tomorrow anyway, what's the worst that can happen?" (For those who don't know, I'm going to New Zealand tomorrow with no immediate plans to come back)So I lit up a quiet cigarette thinking I'm still sober enough to make my apologies and leave should anyone say anything. I smoked, carried on watching TV and no one said a thing. I finished my cig, flicked it out the door and went to get another beer.
Sat down with a fresh pint, carried on watching Clarkson et al struggling across the desert in beaten up old cars. Great television I thought, and carried on drinking.
At 9:52 I look at my phone to check the time and thought,
it, I can catch the last 5 mins on YouTube let's see how serious they are about this smoking ban? So I lit up another. Again no one said anything, except the girl sitting opposite who had just come in from a cold stand outside to smoke - she looked at me suspiciously:"Yes" said I "I'm breaking the law - I'm a criminal"
She laughed and said "Good for you!"
Finished my cigarette, watched the last minute of the programme and went outside to see two old boys smoking in the freezing cold. "Go inside!" said I "No one cares a jot if you smoke, and it's warm in there, with beer!"
The both killed themselves laughing. One was a bit nervous and British about it, while the other was all for me, shaking my hand and telling me how great it was that someone was prepared to stick up for basic decency. Carried on smoking and laughing with them just inside the door of the pub until it was time to go - my none smoking girlfriend had arrived and was killing herself laughing at the site of blatant law breaking in a public place, being loudly and enthusiastically celebrated by obviously good, decent citizens.
All in all, it's
ing great to break the law and get away with it, when the law is quite clearly an ass. It's a clear moral principle that the right to determine the smoking policy of a building rests with the owner of that building and no one else. I urge everyone, smoker or not, to light up in a pub for the sheer sense of righteousness it gives you over the idiotic law makers who decide that one, nannying policy should apply to all establishments, at all times, everywhere, and think this is a reasonable way to run a country. It is not. It never was and it's up to you me and everyone else with a functioning mind to make sure that our outright refusal to listen to their stupid laws ensures it never will be.
AJS- said:
I finished my cig, flicked it out the door and went to get another beer.
I hate those selfish tts like you who think cigarette butts aren't litter. I know you're a brave rebel fighting against the system and I know they've stolen all your ashtrays, but ffs, do the decent thing and find a bin! 
biglepton said:
AJS- said:
I finished my cig, flicked it out the door and went to get another beer.
I hate those selfish tts like you who think cigarette butts aren't litter. I know you're a brave rebel fighting against the system and I know they've stolen all your ashtrays, but ffs, do the decent thing and find a bin! biglepton said:
I hate those selfish tts like you who think cigarette butts aren't litter. I know you're a brave rebel fighting against the system and I know they've stolen all your ashtrays, but ffs, do the decent thing and find a bin!
Then tell them to put ash trays there again. If someone can't put an ash tray on the table, where the ts like you who think cigarette butts aren't litter. I know you're a brave rebel fighting against the system and I know they've stolen all your ashtrays, but ffs, do the decent thing and find a bin! am I meant to put the butts?By the way, it's an extreme act of selflessness to get up, walk to the door and flick the butt out compared to simply dropping it on the floor.
AJS- said:
Then tell them to put ash trays there again. If someone can't put an ash tray on the table, where the am I meant to put the butts?
I put a clue in my post to help you - go and find a bin. I'm sure they have them in pubs - you'll probably see decent people putting empty crisp and nut packets in them. am I meant to put the butts?AJS- said:
By the way, it's an extreme act of selflessness to get up, walk to the door and flick the butt out compared to simply dropping it on the floor.
Enjoy New Zealand - don't rush back. . . .AJS- said:
Well dropping a cigarettes in a bin would set fire to the bin, which I'd think any civic minded fellow would agree is far worse than a cigarette end on the ground.
I'm sorry, I didn't realise finding a way to put out the cigarette before binning it would be such a challenge to you.And smokers wonder why they've lost all their privileges?
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