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Citizen complaint of the day: Stop moving his outdoor ashtrays indoors
By adamg on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 8:43am
A citizen who recently resumed smoking after 17 years complains that workers at a Cleveland Circle condo complex keep removing the hand-made ash trays he keeps putting out by a bench near Cassidy Playground so he can "have my coffee and cigarettes and watch the geese" and comply with the complex's rule against smoking inside.
H/t Hingle McDingleberry.
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okay
I'll be that guy... WHY would you start smoking after 17 years?!? (5, OK, 10, maybe.. anything longer.. wow)
Signed, a former smoker who's glad he quit a few years ago.
Are you really surprised that
Are you really surprised that others might not want you smoking near the playground?
Just guessing
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's got to do with the ban on smoking in Boston parks...
Here's the thing... smokers
Here's the thing... smokers don't give a rat's ass about the ban. They're still smoking in the park, whether it be cigarettes or weed, and they're still flicking their butts everywhere for someone ELSE to clean up. The least they could do after they toss their lit cigarette is to step on it to put it out! Most are too lazy to even do that! I don't walk around the park throwing my trash on the ground expecting others to pick it up after me -- why do smokers think their own shit doesn't stink? Check out the Public Garden, first thing on Monday morning, when many people are walking through the park on their way to work -- you'll see plenty of stoners lighting up in the park. Think they care about the smoking ban?
more ashtrays, fewer butts on the sidewalk?
Since we're not going to get everybody to stop smoking, maybe it's not a bad thing to have more public ashtrays, and encourage smokers to use them instead of just throwing their butts everywhere.
Lazy or Stubborn...
So why in the world doesn't he take his ashtray back to the house with him??
He's deliberately leaving his ashtrays in a park. Those who don't know they are ashtrays will view them as trash and dispose of them accordingly. Those who do know they are ashtrays will dispose of them because of the "no smoking in public parks" rule.
After the first one disappeared most people would have figured out not to leave it there.
Disclaimer: My elderly mother would go outside to smoke when visiting me for a weekend or longer. She always brought her ashtray back in with her afterwards.
Thank you
Thank you for this article and this moment I haven't laughed this hard all day long and I cannot stop laughing at this article . And I am still laughing some please pass me some tissue there are tears in my eyes. This is too much.
Love how the complaint
was submitted as "Illegal Parking".