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Lost my lunchtime smoking spot
Since I'm still pretty new to the leaf, it's been only the past two weeks that I've had a lunchtime cigar, maybe two or three times a week.I'd been walking down to a 20 acre grass field type park that's outlined with a paved path and the occasional bench here and there. I've always entered and exited the park from the same side, taken a seat on the same bench in the shade, and fired up. I've never been given the stink-eye from passers-by.
Here in California smoking is VERY unpopular, and I'm a courteous person. So when families with small kids walk by, I take that time to stand up, stretch my legs, and walk away from the path, letting them pass by far away from me & my odor. Today I saw a guy walking the path with a lunch bag in his hand, looking for an open bench (most were occupied with people sleeping on them). When he sat down next to me I got up and decided to have a walk for the remainder of my cigar, figuring this guy would like to eat his sandwich without smoke. Once I was up and walking around, I saw something that nearly made me swallow my cigar - a big fat NO SMOKING sign RIGHT above the very bench I'd been sitting on the last two weeks for my lunchtime cigar! Ugh. I took a walk and finished my stick standing around in an empty parking lot. I can't believe I'd been sitting right under a no smoking sign... Even more unbelievable is that nobody called me on it.
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Tatuaje Whore
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Re: Lost my lunchtime smoking spot
That sucks but it doesn't surprise me. Here in the bay it is harder & harder to find a place to smoke. I still find it idiodic that I can't burn an organic product in the open air; yet incense, charcoal, diesel, firewood, etc are all "tolerable" burning products.
I feel for you man. I end up smoking in my car in commute traffic... plenty of that for me to sit in. Good luck on finding another spot!
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Evolving Lead Puffer Fish
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Re: Lost my lunchtime smoking spot
wek.. too bad we can't all have a smoking tent outside of the office like the Governator
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[SIZE=3]If any one ever calls you out on it tell them that you work for a private company to research to see if anybody knows how to read public signs.
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Full grown Puffer Fish
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No, whats Unbelievable is the fact theres a No Smoking sign OUTSIDE!!! Thats messed up. I don't think I'd ever care to live in California. Bans on most guns that I own, can't hardly smoke anywhere. They can keep it
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Alpha Puffer Fish
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Bummer. Hope you find another spot, sounds like you really enjoyed that one!
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real good, ya?
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I'm gonna go down there today and look around. Tough decision for the day - Which stick to take with me? Fuente Don Carlos, Ashton VSG, or an LGC Reserva Figurado? Tough decision... I have all three with me.
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Is the park a public park or is it on private property? If it is a public park is there a law or ordinace on the books to back it up? If it's a public spot and there's no law the sign may not mean anything.
Here in NYC buildings post signs indicating that you may not smoke within X feet of the enterance, but as long as you are on public property there is nothing they can do about it. My college actually had the audacity to post signs on DOT street poles around the building. After I complained about vandalism of the street poles, some of them got taken down by the city, but the school put some right back up. |
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real good, ya?
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I had more cash than normal my last trip to the B&M so I splurged a little. Same trip I also bought my dad an Ashton ESG and a Partagas 160 for fathers day, AND I bought a lighter. It was an expensive stop at the B&M! The smoke I was having when I spotted the no smoking sign yesterday was a Fuente Curly Head, to give you an idea of how econo I normally go.
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