At work, the building manager has posted little signs that people are no longer allowed to smoke on the steps at the front or rear entrances, and to please keep their dirty shameful habit to themselves. Ha ha, no the sign says to please smoke in the picnic bench area in the parking lot. It doesn’t really affect me, I’m not a smoker. The people smoking on the steps never bothered me either, but I guess other tenants in the building have complained, hence the new no smoking signs.<\/p>\n
At first, when I saw the sign, I felt kind of bad for the smokers. It’s not like the workers would blow smoke directly in your face as you entered the building. I didn’t see a problem.<\/p>\n
I don’t particularly like smoking or cigarettes, but all this backlash against those who do has gotten a bit crazy. I’m just waiting for the day when they won’t even be allowed to smoke outside, in the open air. It reminds me of that south park episode, where all the smokers in the town were ridiculed and harassed, people shouting derogatory epithets at them like “tarlungs.” very funny. Plus you know, enough with the signs. jeez.<\/p>\n
So, I felt sorry for them, at first. Poor smokers. They are so reviled. But when I walked outside to put some mail in the box just now, there was a guy on the front steps smoking. Right next to the sign telling smokers to not smoke there.<\/p>\n
And for some reason, it really irritated me. Yeah, it sucks that you have to go smoke in the parking lot, but that’s what the owner of the building has decided, and it’s his property to make such decisions. And who the hell does this smoker think he is anyway? The sign is for EVERYONE ELSE, but he’s special. He doesn’t have to listen or follow the rules. He can make up his own set of rules and everyone else be damned.<\/p>\n
So now I don’t feel sorry for the smokers, because of assholes like him who are above it all.<\/p>\n
And I realized that this “I’ll do whatever I feel like” attitude is what really frustrates me about smokers. Littering is probably at the top of my “most hated” list. And smokers think that somehow their precious little cigarette butts don’t constitute as litter. That they can throw those nasty stubs anywhere they want, it doesn’t matter, it’s their personal RIGHT and DUTY to drown the world with them. I’m not saying all smokers do this, but most of them do, the ones I’ve seen anyway, and the sheer amount of cigarette butts on the grounds EVERYWHERE YOU GO is proof enough for me that the majority of smokers are ignorant jerks who think they can fling their trash wherever they feel.<\/p>\n
In summation, on one hand I’m annoyed that people can’t do whatever they want; on the other, I’m annoyed that people do whatever they want. I’m such a mess of annoyance and contradiction, I don’t know what to do with myself.<\/p>\n
I guess mostly I just don’t want people treating the world like their own personal trash receptacle. Although really, does it matter if the trash is on the ground or in a bag somewhere in a landfill? I just don’t want to have to SEE it I guess.<\/p>\n
I’m such an asshole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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