As we’ve remarked before, the one nice thing about smoking bans, is that it forces smokers to congregate in small, defined areas – where it’s easier to to talk to smoking women – and where the topic naturally turns to smoking more often than not.
And today, as we were corralled in a smoking area, we had an all-too-brief conversation with an attractive 25-ish secretary, who was unfortunately more than halfway through her Virginia Slims 100 just as we arrived. After the usual “hi” and “it sucks that we’re stuck out here to smoke” conversation, we did manage to elicit that she had been smoking for more than ten years, and that she didn’t want to quit anyway but never would because of all of the harassment smokers receive. Best of all, though, was when we mentioned that she certainly looked like a dedicated smoker because only serious smokers exhale regularly through their nostrils (which she did on almost every drag), her answer was: “Oh, I love to blow the smoke through my nose. It tastes so good that way!” Sadly, she finished her cigarette after that and headed back to work.
We don’t have much business in the building where the encounter took place – we’ll have to find a way to change that
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The only problem with this, that SOME non-smokers have seemed to overcome, is that standing there to enjoy the sightings looks a little foolish when you are a non-smoker. Personally I always feel very self-concious.
Comment by Jim — April 1, 2006 @ 10:07 pm
Just to finish my thought. I find it terribly frustrating, with the smoking bans, to sit in a bar and watch groups of gorgeous women heading outside to smoke. Following them outside to stand there and watch them just seems like something a little wierd. Like they, and everyone else is going to wonder what the hell you are doing, no? When they could smoke in the bar you could causually watch their smoking performances discreetly and then approach the one you liked best later and it all was very natural.
Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.
Jim
Comment by Jim — April 1, 2006 @ 10:25 pm