This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.
In the food court inn the mall the blue tables were non smoking and the gray were smoking. The thing is, they were all mixed in so essentially the whole food court was the smoking sense. Don’t get caught smoking at a blue table though, you’ll get kicked out.
Back when cigarette smoke extended only as far as your personal space.
People even smoked on the dancing floors in clubs at least in my city. Grinding there, pint in one hand, a ciggie in another.
Back in my childhood “it wasn’t me” was a legit excuse even when you completely smelled of cigarettes after having smoked some, because even non-smoker parents had a hard time telling with all the cigarette smell. Smelling clothes wouldn’t mean anything. Fingers, perhaps, if someone had just smoked.
Not old enough for this, but growing up o had a friend with parents who were heavy smokers. It made a weird relationship in my brain that cigarette smell is related to friends, so for years everytime I smelled a cigarette it would give me some weird nostalgia.
Eventually I tried 1 cigarette and it made me sick lol
My message to people thinking about trying smoking:
If you try a cigarette and you don’t like it, it’s a shitty experience. If you try a cigarette and do like it, that’s much worse.
There’s no upside.
And, for friends who currently smoke, the best line of attack I’ve found is: “You really like giving awful companies like Philip Morris your hard-earned money?”
Also, way fewer murders per dude nowadays. Tubular.
Not just cigarettes. Old, stale cigarette smoke smell that seeped into every piece of fabric and carpet, staining everything. I think its one of the reasons brown and grey shades were so popular.
Most restaurants would have smoking sections right next to the none smoking sections, as if the smoke knew the rules.
Most restaurants would have smoking sections right next to the none smoking sections, as if the smoke knew the rules.
“Smoking or non-smoking”
‘Non-smoking please’
* sits you right next to the smoking section *
‘You could just tell me to go fuck myself.’
Oh no. This topic is going to bring out all the people who can’t tell the difference between “breath” and “breathe”!
Just go get your huge dictionary everyone had in their house the had really thin and easily torn pages.
In my town, there are mostly electric vehicles nowadays. I was out walking along a larger road in my neighborhood when I noticed a bus and two cars passing each other, and it suddenly hit me that earlier in my life, that would have been a very noisy affair, but it wasn’t. I also realized how much the world used to smell like gas. And does anyone else remember the rainbow colored gas puddles you used to see and smell in parking lots? I don’t remember the last time I saw any of those.
Then I realized there is a world where my kids can grow up outside of noise pollution, cigarette smoke and car fumes, and it made me a little more hopeful about the future.
I remember those puddles. You’re right I haven’t seen them in years.
What town do you live in that has more electric cars than gas powered? Doesn’t sound believable; but if it is, then that’s fuckin’ sick.
Scandinavia, like that guy guessed, is right
93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.
I don’t know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that’s also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.
I’d guess in Scandinavia
Remember playing in those fucking puddles? Swimming and them? Eating fish from them?
Well, the bigger ones.
Are you from the future?
Do people not maintain their cars cause ive only seen gasoline puddles out in the desert from folks rupturing their tanks while offroading. That should not be frequent enough for it to be normal.
Old cars must have leaked more frequently without it breaking them, because I can remember oily puddles under parked cars quite a lot from my childhood (which was in the 90s).
Now the world smells like watermelon cotton candy.
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My town has a big billboard up that talks about how we can breathe easy because the town has banned smoking indoors.
The thing is, I’ve been here for over 10 years and that’s been true the whole time I’ve been here. It’s very odd.
i’d be willing to bet they just put it up, and then it either still have the rights to it, because lazy way to spend money on “social progress” or something, or they lost the rights to it, and literally nobody has bought the rights for it since then, so the old ad is still just kicking around up there.
It’s a recent thing. Which is part of the oddity.
huh, might be due to vaping then. Maybe they just didnt want to spend the money lmao.
Though to be fair, i do think the rates of people smoking is probably going up, now that we’re one or maybe two generations detached from regular smoking, it might start to swing back. Social norms are weird like that.
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I was in Vegas recently and made the mistake of cutting through the casino as a shortcut, the 80s came roaring back to my nose holes… so gross!
Yeah I never noticed the smell of smoke until myn parents quit when I was a teenager. And then stopped noticing it again when I started smoking. And then started noticing it again when I stopped.
Same
And now it smells like weed.
Most restaurants and airplanes, not so much. Which, even as a cannabis user, I appreciate.
Cigarettes and lead fumes.
And people don’t understand why there are so many MAGA folks.
My entire generation is filled with people who have never read a book since high school. It used to baffle the hell out of me, and then I learned about how bad the lead saturation in our environment really was back then. It’s a miracle I know how to spell my own name TBH.
Go to a German Bundesliga match if you want to relive this part of the past.
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I just had an involuntary flashback of a host at a restaurant asking if we would like smoking or non smoking. It didn’t really matter since the whole place smelled like smoke…
Lies. Some of it smelled like leaded car exhaust.
