That last sentence is the second most surprising and funny thing I have seen today. Bravo!
LOL, my dating philosophy was "date someone you are already friends with, and attends a near by high school." That sounds uber creepy until you realize that I was married when I was 20, and that woman was a person that I met when we were in high school. We went from friends to dating, back to friends again, and back to dating again. In the intervening time (ages 18-19) I tried a little bit of ordinary dating (if you count dating a woman you met at an under age gay dance club as ordinary), but I genuinely have no clue how adults date.
I was
kinda the same way. I grew up in a household filled to the brim with strong women and girls, so respect for women as human beings was sort of drilled into me. I also drank the "generic fruit drink" when it came to sex being incredibly serious and life changing, so while I was not saving myself for marriage or anything I did have some hold ups. I broke up with one girl I was dating because I thought that we were getting to the point that she would want to have sex and I didn't want to have to say "no" to her because I wasn't feeling it deeply enough. I was a moron. She was wicked hot, smart, and sweet.
That said it was the early '90's and HIV was still pretty rampant. I had seen a couple of people I love die of complications from AIDS, so that was just another brick to pile on the burden of sex. That and seeing too many "very special episodes" of 90210.
Thank you
Like Cryo, I wouldn't say it was moronic. You intent was good. It's a bit sad, but it's noble of you to do stuff like that. I've happened to let myself get into weird situations before due to having a hard time/can't saying no to things I feel like I should be saying yes to (see the above "I don't like one night stands") come to think of it, I should stop this.
MiL stories from today.
We are driving down the highway. My boys are talking about some video game stuff. FiL, Wife, Me are all just looking out the window in silence. MiL then starts laughing hysterically for 10-15 seconds. None of us say a word - even the boys just keep talking about video games completely ignoring her. At the 15 second mark it was clear she was forcing the laugh, so I ask "What? What're you laughing at?" She replies, "I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU!!!!!" And then 30 seconds later a little chuckle.
On the way back from the destination in the first half of the story the boys were in the back fighting over a bag of carrots. They were being *****s but I didn't care because it was low level fighting. Out of nowhere she starts singing with the clear intent to overpower their volume....
MiL: (singing) HEY JOOB don't make it sad. Take a sad song and make it better
She messed that up and kept repeating the same incorrect first two lines. By the time I lost it she was yelling and the boys were screaming and tearing apart the plastic bag throwing carrots all over.
No problem, I just didn't want to turn my answer into a debate on accident.
With the conversion thing, I'll give some context: I live in Salt Lake now, which is the largest city in my state, but I grew up in a small (well, it's large for Utah, but small comparatively) farm town that was at least 80% mormon. For most of the people I grew up with, Temple marriages were a very important goal for them, and that required both parties to essentially be LDS and in good standing with the church. It was never out of malice, but just meant that they wanted to potentially turn the relationship into a serious comittment (I've mentioned it before but the average age for marriage here is super young, especially in smaller towns). It just ended up being a difference of opinion and goals, though it only ever came up with male partners.
Again, I don't want anyone to pick up on this and make a deal about it, it's just some context for why I have that criteria for dating.
It's fine. I find it (and I don't mean to be offensive or anything) kinda cute how unwanting you are of someone starting an argument. Well, if it's "I don't want to get into it" then it's valid. But if it's "I don't want to make anyone upset" then it's cute.
Either way, I don't know how difficult it is for you, but if I was in your place, and it's wasn't harder for me to move. I'd move asap. Then again, if I was in your place, I'd probably be enough like you to do exactly what you did/do.
Don't forget folks, Sharknado 3 is on Wednesday at 9 PM Eastern.
Already set my alarm.
Honestly though, the sequel was pretty bad, and I have very low expectations for the third one. But the kid is excited to see it so meh.
In other news, I've decided to pull up stakes and move to another LGS. My former shop decided to shift their draft night to every other Saturday, since attendance was paltry. This would be fine, except these Saturdays are the ones I'm on call, so I'm not able to attend. Also, right after telling me this, they proceeded to package their online orders. I asked if they would let me trade in some stuff I had to get the last few cards from Origins I needed. They agreed to do so, right after they finished packing up their orders. Normally, this would take them like five minutes. And so I waited alone at the counter. Five minutes passed. Ten minutes gone. Twenty minutes down the drain. At thirty minutes, after being the only person at the counter, despite them having two out of two employees working on packages and zero other customers needing their attention, I just grabbed my bag and left. Look, I understand you guys gotta get your ***** shipped out (keep in mind this was around 5 in the afternoon, so the PO wasn't getting it 'til the next day at the earliest) but could one of you please take five minutes just so I can give you my business?
I'll probably only go back there for prerelease events for the days my new shop doesn't run them, and to pick up limited/exclusive product they can't get yet (***** like Vaults and goofy stuff like Commander's Arsenal.) Am I in the wrong here?
Mixed feelings here. No matter how friendly you feel you are with a store, they're there because it's a business, so expecting that they'll drop everything they're doing to help you is a bit egotistical. I say this as a generalization, not necessarily directed at your scenario. (I had to learn this for myself.) In your case, if they knew it was going to be quite some time before they finished packing up the stuff they should have told you an approximate wait time because that's just rude. So I would have probably done the same thing or asked how much longer it would be. But if you can't draft there then finding a new home makes sense regardless of an isolated incident. I believe that if you make an effort to stay faithful to one establishment which is small enough to care about that sort of thing then you get rewarded for it. I do all my IRL business at my LGS and I don't get free stuff from them or anything, but they treat me a hell of a lot better as a regular face than if I was just some random guy.
That sentence referred to my attitude when I was in my late teens where in I took what I was taught and thought that made me some kind of "white knight" crusading for the honor of women in the bedroom (when I was really just inflating my own ego). Of course my upbringing led to me having much less socially influenced sexism, and yes I was raised to treat women as human beings (which is probably why I never had too much trouble moving past the friend zone), but I also thought I knew what was best for myself and the woman I was with. Not only was I bit too hard on myself and my own urges, the few times I had the chance to have sex and steered away from it I thought I was being some kind of feminist hero.
I was a kid. Many of my ethics and morality were poorly defined and very one-dimensional.
Oof. Yeah, it took me a while to wash off the Catholic School, where I was told someone who wasn't a virgin was like a used piece of gum: no one wants to chew it the second time around (also: condoms don't work). Complete with visual aids, a boy and girl were given a fresh piece of gum. Then they were asked to hand it to someone else after they'd chewed it and see if that person wanted it. This was proof that sex tainted you forever.
... Yeah. I'm not so uptight anymore, but that kind of thinking made me a pretty big ass in high school.
Don't forget folks, Sharknado 3 is on Wednesday at 9 PM Eastern.
Already set my alarm.
Honestly though, the sequel was pretty bad, and I have very low expectations for the third one. But the kid is excited to see it so meh.
Really? I thought the second one was better than the first by a country mile. I loved the original, but it had some definite issues with pacing (the beginning was slow and focused waay too much on Fin's family life and his bar.) The second cuts the bull***** and gets straight to the part you want to see, people getting eaten by flying sharks. Not to mention it having a variety of guest stars, who actually sort of work in their respective roles (Matt Lauer and Al Roker absolutely nailed it) and most of the new jokes (the baseball scene, jumping the sharks, etc) feel like proper homages to the original without being samey. I'm pretty stoked for the third one, and apparently we're getting David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek, Michael Winslow, Penn & Teller, Mark Cuban, and Jerry Springer, as our guest stars. Seems solid.
In other news, I've decided to pull up stakes and move to another LGS. My former shop decided to shift their draft night to every other Saturday, since attendance was paltry. This would be fine, except these Saturdays are the ones I'm on call, so I'm not able to attend. Also, right after telling me this, they proceeded to package their online orders. I asked if they would let me trade in some stuff I had to get the last few cards from Origins I needed. They agreed to do so, right after they finished packing up their orders. Normally, this would take them like five minutes. And so I waited alone at the counter. Five minutes passed. Ten minutes gone. Twenty minutes down the drain. At thirty minutes, after being the only person at the counter, despite them having two out of two employees working on packages and zero other customers needing their attention, I just grabbed my bag and left. Look, I understand you guys gotta get your ***** shipped out (keep in mind this was around 5 in the afternoon, so the PO wasn't getting it 'til the next day at the earliest) but could one of you please take five minutes just so I can give you my business?
I'll probably only go back there for prerelease events for the days my new shop doesn't run them, and to pick up limited/exclusive product they can't get yet (***** like Vaults and goofy stuff like Commander's Arsenal.) Am I in the wrong here?
Mixed feelings here. No matter how friendly you feel you are with a store, they're there because it's a business, so expecting that they'll drop everything they're doing to help you is a bit egotistical. I say this as a generalization, not necessarily directed at your scenario. (I had to learn this for myself.) In your case, if they knew it was going to be quite some time before they finished packing up the stuff they should have told you an approximate wait time because that's just rude. So I would have probably done the same thing or asked how much longer it would be. But if you can't draft there then finding a new home makes sense regardless of an isolated incident. I believe that if you make an effort to stay faithful to one establishment which is small enough to care about that sort of thing then you get rewarded for it. I do all my IRL business at my LGS and I don't get free stuff from them or anything, but they treat me a hell of a lot better as a regular face than if I was just some random guy.
See, and that's just it. I used to work in retail myself, and I'd always drop whatever I was doing to help a customer...unless I was helping another customer. I thought about asking them about a wait time, but I was literally standing right in front of them at the counter, so I didn't want to appear impatient or rude. And like I said, they had two guys working that day, and both were doing packages. It'd be one thing if it was just the one and I'd be completely interrupting his packaging job, but there were two.
Believe me, once I choose a shop, I do my damn hardest to do all my gaming business there. And the guy that co-owns the store (not either of the guys working that day) is actually a longtime friend of mine and the guy who taught me to play Magic, plus the location was fairly convenient from where I was living when he opened the shop (about 40 min. or so.) I seriously considered texting him, but ultimately I refrained because I didn't want to create a rift in our friendship. The regulars were okay for the most part, there were plenty of places to get food around the area, and it was in a safe part of the neighborhood. The new store is about 15 minutes out, also has multiple places to eat (although most of them are Italian, not big on italian food) and parking is in a parking garage across the street, so it's pretty safe. They're new, but it seems like they'll be okay once they're around a while and break that stigma of "new game shops always go out of business in less than a year."
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Yeah, that's really weird. What happened to customer is always first?
That being said my lgs has been pretty dicky in terms of stuff I've seen. Like loudly complaining about a customer who was still within earshot. The customer apologized but still. His crime was coming in for his online order too soon (they don't say to wait or anything, but the employee and owner were complaining). I kinda get it, but not how they did it.
So a few pages back I mentioned that I read a bit of stuff on wikipedia. I decided to check my history (my computer only keeps around 10 days or so.
I average around 14.5 pages a day on wikipedia. It's worse than I thought. It's funny looking at the random things that come in order in the history. Some related, some not.
In my experience LGSs have terrible customer service and are ignorant of guidelines that I would consider Retail 101. Even the stores around here that are staffed by nice friendly people don't know the first thing about merchandising or selling their product.
I worked a lot of retail and retail management the absolute bare minimum expectation of an associate would be to greet the customer and let them know how long they should expect to wait. That being said, most everywhere I worked would expect you to set aside your other work and prioritize the customer at the counter.
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In my experience LGSs have terrible customer service and are ignorant of guidelines that I would consider Retail 101. Even the stores around here that are staffed by nice friendly people don't know the first thing about merchandising or selling their product.
I worked a lot of retail and retail management the absolute bare minimum expectation of an associate would be to greet the customer and let them know how long they should expect to wait. That being said, most everywhere I worked would expect you to set aside your other work and prioritize the customer at the counter.
It's cause they're hiring nerds. My buddy works at a toy store (like, high value collectibles, not toys'r'us), and had one coworker who was hired because of his knowledge of G1 Transformers. But this dude was terrible at this job, had no hygiene and lacked a basic understanding of professionalism.
I love you nerd-kind, but in general you're not the best at life sometimes.
It's fine. I find it (and I don't mean to be offensive or anything) kinda cute how unwanting you are of someone starting an argument. Well, if it's "I don't want to get into it" then it's valid. But if it's "I don't want to make anyone upset" then it's cute.
Either way, I don't know how difficult it is for you, but if I was in your place, and it's wasn't harder for me to move. I'd move asap. Then again, if I was in your place, I'd probably be enough like you to do exactly what you did/do.
It's honestly that this isn't the forum for those kinds of debates, and Cryo has asked us not to turn this thread into a debate thread a few times already. I don't mind debating, but there's a time and place.
Honestly, I would love to move but that's going to be a ways off. Weird culture here aside, I hate living in the desert.
Oh I totally get that, I was trying to avoid generalizing, but of course it's because they're hiring nerds.
Nerds who thinking working at a game shop will be all play and no work.
Frequently the problem is that they're hiring their friends, nerdy or otherwise, who have no sales skills or work ethic. That's why I didn't single out nerds initially. I'm pretty nerdy but I was also an excellent salesperson and merchandiser.
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He exists. I just don't like the guy as an artist.
I don't like his music either, but I think most musicians should take a leaf out of his book and try to keep their ticket prices low.
Usually it ain't the artists who control the ticket prices, and even if they did, I don't blame them for hiking their tickets when they make five cents per song sold on Itunes.
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On the topic of LGS, the one here,to be honest has a boss/owner who isn't listening to his costumers or even the L2 judge here when it comes to magic related stuff. He mainly opened the store as to sell board games,which he was into playing when he was in college. The town we live in isn't really a college town. Also he wants the store to be a secondary income source.
For example the L2 had to talking him into using table numbers for the pre-releases,he gives out a pack to anyone who takes part in an event or you can turn that pack into store credit and end up never having to pay for an entry fee again since you can use store credit to pay for the entry fee. The workers have little to no clue about anything. for example before the pre release on Saturday afternoon, I came into the shop around opening to see if they had any tickets left, the guy behind the counter had no clue what I was asking about so ended up calling the boss/owner.
Honestly, I would love to move but that's going to be a ways off. Weird culture here aside, I hate living in the desert.
You should move to Madison! It's nice and cold here when it isn't the middle of the summer, and there's a pretty amazing magic scene. (The EDH scene apparently has been growing recently as well.)
I had a really always time at the lgs a few weeks back where in our 4 man EDH pod, Karn started his first turn with a mountain. The store owner said he could use basics in his colorless decks, just he couldn't have colored spells. I corrected the player, he didn't believe me, but eventually, due to others agreeing with me, he accepted it. I told him I didn't mind him still playing with the deck, cause basics in very niche cases are better than non basics who have extra effects (we are both casual and budget). But it was a bit sad to see a budget player essentially be cut off from one of his decks.
Am I a terrible person if I feel that anybody who smokes without explicit consent of each and every person that might inhale air that has been polluted by said smoker should be burned alive?
Am I a terrible person if I feel that anybody who smokes without explicit consent of each and every person that might inhale air that has been polluted by said smoker should be burned alive?
Yes.
You probably don't feel that but are just ranting.
In more social terms: no, *sympathizing*. ***** sucks. But there is no easy way around it. I get really upset when people who have E-cigs think that we don't get a choice in whether or not we breathe their recycled air. Some guy at our lgs would open the door outside, smoke his e-cig and come back inside. The wind and the fact that he is right outside the door made it so that everyone inside the lgs also smoked his e-cig.
Am I a terrible person if I feel that anybody who smokes without explicit consent of each and every person that might inhale air that has been polluted by said smoker should be burned alive?
I rarely smoke, only the odd cigar here and there, but grew up around smokers and in highschool/college most folks were smokers of some sort.
The marijuana smokers who were incredibly obvious about it and didn't have any regard for other people were annoying. I don't want to smell your low-quality weed and BO.
The tobacco smokers fell into one of two categories: those who smoked because it made them feel "cool" and those that smoked to have something to do (these were almost exclusively ex-mil or still in service.)
Of the first group, a few were actually conscientious about their smoking. These were the people who stood downwind so everyone else wouldn't be stuck breathing in the waste. Usually, they didn't give a *****. Great indicator of personality, actually. I don't keep much in touch with those folks.
Especially when traveling, I've come to give fewer and fewer *****s about inhaling secondhand smoke. For some people and areas, smoking's just something that happens. Pass a fagot around with friends and just chill.
I don't really mind breathing in the occasional bit of second hand smoke, but if you clearly don't give a ***** about the people around you I might be a bit annoyed.
That being said, 90% of e-cig and vape smokers are usually pretentious douches and fall into my first category.
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I've smoked 2 cigarettes in my life. I got really good at blowing rings in college, but never could inhale.
Is talking about smoking pot okay on MTGS since it's legal in my state?
Like Cryo, I wouldn't say it was moronic. You intent was good. It's a bit sad, but it's noble of you to do stuff like that. I've happened to let myself get into weird situations before due to having a hard time/can't saying no to things I feel like I should be saying yes to (see the above "I don't like one night stands") come to think of it, I should stop this.
Kick her out of the car.
It's fine. I find it (and I don't mean to be offensive or anything) kinda cute how unwanting you are of someone starting an argument. Well, if it's "I don't want to get into it" then it's valid. But if it's "I don't want to make anyone upset" then it's cute.
Either way, I don't know how difficult it is for you, but if I was in your place, and it's wasn't harder for me to move. I'd move asap. Then again, if I was in your place, I'd probably be enough like you to do exactly what you did/do.
Already set my alarm.
Honestly though, the sequel was pretty bad, and I have very low expectations for the third one. But the kid is excited to see it so meh.
Mixed feelings here. No matter how friendly you feel you are with a store, they're there because it's a business, so expecting that they'll drop everything they're doing to help you is a bit egotistical. I say this as a generalization, not necessarily directed at your scenario. (I had to learn this for myself.) In your case, if they knew it was going to be quite some time before they finished packing up the stuff they should have told you an approximate wait time because that's just rude. So I would have probably done the same thing or asked how much longer it would be. But if you can't draft there then finding a new home makes sense regardless of an isolated incident. I believe that if you make an effort to stay faithful to one establishment which is small enough to care about that sort of thing then you get rewarded for it. I do all my IRL business at my LGS and I don't get free stuff from them or anything, but they treat me a hell of a lot better as a regular face than if I was just some random guy.
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... Yeah. I'm not so uptight anymore, but that kind of thinking made me a pretty big ass in high school.
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Really? I thought the second one was better than the first by a country mile. I loved the original, but it had some definite issues with pacing (the beginning was slow and focused waay too much on Fin's family life and his bar.) The second cuts the bull***** and gets straight to the part you want to see, people getting eaten by flying sharks. Not to mention it having a variety of guest stars, who actually sort of work in their respective roles (Matt Lauer and Al Roker absolutely nailed it) and most of the new jokes (the baseball scene, jumping the sharks, etc) feel like proper homages to the original without being samey. I'm pretty stoked for the third one, and apparently we're getting David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek, Michael Winslow, Penn & Teller, Mark Cuban, and Jerry Springer, as our guest stars. Seems solid.
See, and that's just it. I used to work in retail myself, and I'd always drop whatever I was doing to help a customer...unless I was helping another customer. I thought about asking them about a wait time, but I was literally standing right in front of them at the counter, so I didn't want to appear impatient or rude. And like I said, they had two guys working that day, and both were doing packages. It'd be one thing if it was just the one and I'd be completely interrupting his packaging job, but there were two.
Believe me, once I choose a shop, I do my damn hardest to do all my gaming business there. And the guy that co-owns the store (not either of the guys working that day) is actually a longtime friend of mine and the guy who taught me to play Magic, plus the location was fairly convenient from where I was living when he opened the shop (about 40 min. or so.) I seriously considered texting him, but ultimately I refrained because I didn't want to create a rift in our friendship. The regulars were okay for the most part, there were plenty of places to get food around the area, and it was in a safe part of the neighborhood. The new store is about 15 minutes out, also has multiple places to eat (although most of them are Italian, not big on italian food) and parking is in a parking garage across the street, so it's pretty safe. They're new, but it seems like they'll be okay once they're around a while and break that stigma of "new game shops always go out of business in less than a year."
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EDH
BGGlissa, The Traitor - Recursion (Primer)
WBRKaalia of The Vast
URGRiku of Two Reflections
WUBSydri, Galvanic Genius
UBRamirez DePietro
GWKrond, The Dawn-Clad
GWUDerevi, Empyrial Tactician
RGOmnath, Locus of Rage
Modern
UG Infect
That being said my lgs has been pretty dicky in terms of stuff I've seen. Like loudly complaining about a customer who was still within earshot. The customer apologized but still. His crime was coming in for his online order too soon (they don't say to wait or anything, but the employee and owner were complaining). I kinda get it, but not how they did it.
So a few pages back I mentioned that I read a bit of stuff on wikipedia. I decided to check my history (my computer only keeps around 10 days or so.
I average around 14.5 pages a day on wikipedia. It's worse than I thought. It's funny looking at the random things that come in order in the history. Some related, some not.
I worked a lot of retail and retail management the absolute bare minimum expectation of an associate would be to greet the customer and let them know how long they should expect to wait. That being said, most everywhere I worked would expect you to set aside your other work and prioritize the customer at the counter.
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
I love you nerd-kind, but in general you're not the best at life sometimes.
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Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
Nerds who thinking working at a game shop will be all play and no work.
Honestly, I would love to move but that's going to be a ways off. Weird culture here aside, I hate living in the desert.
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Frequently the problem is that they're hiring their friends, nerdy or otherwise, who have no sales skills or work ethic. That's why I didn't single out nerds initially. I'm pretty nerdy but I was also an excellent salesperson and merchandiser.
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
That is all.
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What'd he do?
He exists. I just don't like the guy as an artist.
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I don't like his music either, but I think most musicians should take a leaf out of his book and try to keep their ticket prices low.
Currently Piloting:
EDH
BGGlissa, The Traitor - Recursion (Primer)
WBRKaalia of The Vast
URGRiku of Two Reflections
WUBSydri, Galvanic Genius
UBRamirez DePietro
GWKrond, The Dawn-Clad
GWUDerevi, Empyrial Tactician
RGOmnath, Locus of Rage
Modern
UG Infect
For example the L2 had to talking him into using table numbers for the pre-releases,he gives out a pack to anyone who takes part in an event or you can turn that pack into store credit and end up never having to pay for an entry fee again since you can use store credit to pay for the entry fee. The workers have little to no clue about anything. for example before the pre release on Saturday afternoon, I came into the shop around opening to see if they had any tickets left, the guy behind the counter had no clue what I was asking about so ended up calling the boss/owner.
You should move to Madison! It's nice and cold here when it isn't the middle of the summer, and there's a pretty amazing magic scene. (The EDH scene apparently has been growing recently as well.)
Yes.
You probably don't feel that but are just ranting.
In more social terms: no, *sympathizing*. ***** sucks. But there is no easy way around it. I get really upset when people who have E-cigs think that we don't get a choice in whether or not we breathe their recycled air. Some guy at our lgs would open the door outside, smoke his e-cig and come back inside. The wind and the fact that he is right outside the door made it so that everyone inside the lgs also smoked his e-cig.
I rarely smoke, only the odd cigar here and there, but grew up around smokers and in highschool/college most folks were smokers of some sort.
The marijuana smokers who were incredibly obvious about it and didn't have any regard for other people were annoying. I don't want to smell your low-quality weed and BO.
The tobacco smokers fell into one of two categories: those who smoked because it made them feel "cool" and those that smoked to have something to do (these were almost exclusively ex-mil or still in service.)
Of the first group, a few were actually conscientious about their smoking. These were the people who stood downwind so everyone else wouldn't be stuck breathing in the waste. Usually, they didn't give a *****. Great indicator of personality, actually. I don't keep much in touch with those folks.
Especially when traveling, I've come to give fewer and fewer *****s about inhaling secondhand smoke. For some people and areas, smoking's just something that happens. Pass a fagot around with friends and just chill.
I don't really mind breathing in the occasional bit of second hand smoke, but if you clearly don't give a ***** about the people around you I might be a bit annoyed.
That being said, 90% of e-cig and vape smokers are usually pretentious douches and fall into my first category.
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Church of the Wary
Is talking about smoking pot okay on MTGS since it's legal in my state?
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