Reply With QuotePut a pack of condoms in there. For fun.
It's a little dish built in to the top of the toilet paper dispenser. It's obviously there so you can smoke while you take care of your business.
But I live in California, so there's no smoking anywhere, even in the territorial waters surrounding the state. It's obviously a remnant of a happier, freer time. I don't even smoke any more but I wish I could use that little ashtray.
Put a pack of condoms in there. For fun.
Condoms are meant to be for fun.
Or some mints. Count them, then return the next day to see if anyone was willing to take the bait.
Bzzt, people from South America are not allowed in this thread. You wouldn't understand the poignancy.Originally Posted by Tankero
I have fond memories of enjoying a cigarette while standing under a non smoking sign in an airport in Cali. Nobody even giving me a funny look. That was within the last decade too, so obviously Colombians do not understand the anti-smoking-nazi mentality so prevalent in America today ;-)
Does anyone else remember when you could smoke on the public bus? Or in the movie theatre? I saw The Road Warrior when you could still light up.
I just put 15 cinnamon Altoids in it and I can't stop smiling. Best. Idea. EVER.
I can't say I miss having a world that stank like smoke.
Does it weird anyone else out that you used to be able to smoke in movie theaters? I mean, I was alive for that, but it must have messed with the screen...
Anyway, if I have smoking nostalgia I just watch an episode of Mad Men.
I'll alert the media.
Nah, we automatically expect Gringos to do whatever the hell they please. Had you been a local, though, you would've gotten plenty of flakk. Mind you, in Cali, people are to distracted by all the women in boyshorts to notice someone smoking.
Well as long as you keep letting us, why should we ever stop?
You put yer weeeeeed in there.
But you're all so swollen from the HGH in your beef!
My first year of college we could smoke in class. 1991
Actually, my local client did it first. I wouldn't have had the idea on my own. I'm scared of smoking in your country unless I'm sure it's appropriate for the area. I tried smoking on the street outside a Comcel data center at 3am once and being hassled by two passing gentlemen wearing fatigues and carrying assault rifles. It turns out they only wanted to bum smokes from me but since I speak basically no spanish I was petrified and had no idea what was going on.
The last time I was in Russia (about 8 years ago) you could smoke everywhere: in elevators, in the line at the airport, on streetcars. I doubt that's changed much.
I quit smoking a decade ago and can't stand the smell of it now.
A question to the smokers here. Why the fuck don't smokers ever throw their cigarette butts into the bins provided. We have a smoking garden and it is littered with cigarette butts even though there are concrete bins provided for the purpose. People will stand a foot away from these bins, finish their cigarettes and drop the butts next to them.
I really don't get it. Could someone please explain the concept to me?
Every now and then smoke will smell REALLY GOOD to me and little flirtations will flit through my head. I'll remember smoking in the wintertime, snow falling as I puffed under an awning, or sitting in a hottub with a drink, smoking with friends.
The rest of the time (98%) it makes me angry that people are still allowed to smoke at all. I mean, don't they know how BAD it is for them?
It really didn't take long for the little anti-cig nazi to set up shop in my head.
Smokers are like any other arbitrary grouping of people. Some small percentage will be assholes. And ruin things for everyone else.
I know exactly what you mean. Now I look at smokers and think they're idiots. Not a very flattering or mature response, I know.
The only vice I gave up that I still miss is cocaine. Maybe if I ever stopped drinking I'd feel that loss, but I figure if I stay in shape I can keep tippling.
The scary thing is that it isn't a small percentage who do it. The paving in the smoker's garden literally has more cigarette butts than individual pieces of gravel in popular spots while the bins generally have a handful of butts.
Hell, at home even my mother-in-law used to throw her butts in our garden instead of using an ashtray until I told my wife that she would be banned from visiting if I ever saw her doing it again.
People who don't smoke should be shot into the sun.
You're totally not a troll, Bob.
At my work, they have tampon dispensers in the women's bathroom.
Don't most? My highschool had them.
O.o
How do you come by this k nowledge?
IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS:
There are now only 14 mints in the ashtray in the bathroom at my work.
Sick.
That is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I've seen cops rigorously enforce those no-smoking areas before. I guess between Cali and Bogota there's a different attitude towards smokers. Soldiers don't give a damn if you're breaking a city ordinance, and you ARE allowed to smoke on the street anyway. Smoking's the only way most of those guys keep warm at night anyhow. How did you like the Israeli craftsmanship of those Galil assault rifles though?
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