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Originally Posted by asaris
One of my biggest pet peeves is people who get upset at my smoking when it's their own fault that they're standing so close to me. One time I was walking down the street, chatting with someone and smoking. A girl joins our conversation and 10 minutes later, she's talking about how rude I was, smoking near here. I mean, I understand that smoking bothers some people, but hey, not smoking bothers me. How about some equal consideration?
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that one drives me nuts as well. i do not smoke next to entrances and exits when outside--i enjoy my habit but don't feel a need to push it on others. i make it very easy to avoid me if someone should desire it, but some people still feel a need to stand right next to me and complain i'm smoking.
a few friends and i went out to eat a while back and while waiting outside for our table, some of us decided to have a smoke. there was a small crowd outside since it was raining a little and everyone wanted under the little shelter. so we walked out into the rain, about 20 feet from everyone else to light up. a woman left her group under the shelter and came to stand right next to us--then proceeded to cough and wave her hand in front of her face. she then made some comment to her friends (20 feet away) about rude people smoking everywhere she went.
we politely let her know we wouldn't be at all offended if she wanted to stand under the shelter away from us--or if she really wanted to be out in the rain, she could go 20 feet in the other direction.