On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:47:59PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > I gave up smoking back in the days when it was still legal in offices here. > I used to end the working day with an enormous ashtray full of fag-ends, > which is unthinkable these days. Even though it was still legal to smoke in > offices, the company I was with instigated a no-smoking policy and we had to > go and stand outside. At first I resented the limitation on my freedom to > kill my colleagues slowly, and make their days even worse than they already > were, but before long it was obvious that it gave me several extra breaks > during the day and plugged me into a rather democratic network where you got > to befriend a lot of people you wouldn't otherwise even have met.
I've never been a smoker. I'm one of those people that tends to be hypersensitive to it. If I smoke a cigarette, my throat will be thrashed for a month, and that's without inhaling. However, I've noticed the social benefits of smoking. When my ex-wife and I split I was working at a large company, and one of the women there (not a direct cow-orker) that I considered particularly attractive was a smoker. I was tempted to take it up to have an excuse to hang out with her. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
