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Before I moved to e-cigarettes (and when I still didn't hate travelling), I had a memorable experience desperately trying to find a smoking lounge in an airport
by keldaris 9y ago
Before I moved to e-cigarettes (and when I still didn't hate travelling), I had a memorable experience desperately trying to find a smoking lounge in an airport in Prague with a friend before our connecting flight took off. Got lost, stumbled into some desolate employee-only areas and barely made our flight, but damn did that cigarette feel good.
Nowadays, even though I consume nicotine via e-cigarettes (mostly indoors), the smoking break is still a lovely social habit, where a great many useful ideas are habitually exchanged with co-workers. I don't particularly miss cigarettes myself, but I will greatly miss smoking breaks when the last holdouts finally quit smoking.
- bonniemuffin 9y agoI wish society had more excuses to take a 10-minute break just to sit down and talk to random people, without the dying from smoking part.
- satysin 9y agoA little off topic but hey it's the weekend so here is a little story about smoking - I worked with a guy who used to go out for a "smoke break" every few hours with the others but never smoked. He used to grab a coffee and put the little white plastic stirrer in his mouth so he felt more a part of the group. Anyway he got to retirement age and at his leaving gathering management presented him with a beautiful silver cigarette case. Turns out the only people who knew he didn't smoke were the smokers. He had never actually ever put a cigarette in his mouth. I'm not sure why but I really love this memory. He was a great guy, full of funny stories and great life advice.
- bmelton 9y agoI'm glad you shared that. The perfect follow-on gift would be a silver coffee stirrer.