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I'm amazed by all the smoking apologists who have posted on this thread. You'd think they owned stock in tobacco companies. Bad habits, especially those that cause unpleasantness or injury to others, should never be excused, because many others have them or they are trends of the times. Thankfully, I never went places where people smoked, when I was young. The practice has declined, but still persists. I cheer, whenever I hear of another facility or an entire city, that has banned smoking.
No apology from me, I'm a lifetime non-smoker. I also suffer fools poorly... My parents were idiots, but I love them and don't try to blame any of my hang-ups on them.
I remember before the total indoor smoking bans (and even after, thanks to places that were legally "outdoors"), my parents would force me to go to restaurants with bars that weren't separated from the rest of the restaurant and to baseball and football games where the concourse was legally "outdoors" but seemed indoors to me. My brother and I would object and express our concerns about second-hand smoke, but our parents just wouldn't listen. At the same time, our parents would say that we would be disowned if were ever caught smoking. To this day, I can't stand that my parents would force my brother and I go to inside smoke-filled places just to keep them company.
Oh no, poor you! Well, like many others here, my parents forced me to LIVE in it!
You weren't as mistreated as the many people who were raised in a household of smokers.
I remember before the total indoor smoking bans (and even after, thanks to places that were legally "outdoors"), my parents would force me to go to restaurants with bars that weren't separated from the rest ofthe restaurant and to baseball and football games where the concourse was legally "outdoors" but seemed indoors to me. My brother and I would object and express our concerns about second-hand smoke, but our parents just wouldn't listen. At the same time, our parents would say that we would be disowned if were ever caught smoking. To this day, I can't stand that my parents would force my brother and I go to inside smoke-filled places just to keep them company.
How old are you? It used to be that everywhere pretty much allowed smoking. Where were they supposed to take you?
OP, you could have avenged their mistreatment of you by eating a lot of Mexican food and then farting in their face.
That would have showed them (or made them smell....)
I remember being a young kid in the 80s. My family would go on these long road trips to northern Sweden in the middle of January. No seatbelts in the backseat. My sister and I took turns sleeping in the back window of the car, and the backseat. We were constantly fighting while my dad was trying his best to stay on the icy road...lol. My mom was sitting in the front passenger seat smoking, Windows almost all the way up..Lol!
My sister and I complained, swore we would never smoke ourselves. My parents blew us off..thinking we whined too much.
Looking back now, they feel bad..... But we survived just fine.
I remember before the total indoor smoking bans (and even after, thanks to places that were legally "outdoors"), my parents would force me to go to restaurants with bars that weren't separated from the rest ofthe restaurant and to baseball and football games where the concourse was legally "outdoors" but seemed indoors to me. My brother and I would object and express our concerns about second-hand smoke, but our parents just wouldn't listen. At the same time, our parents would say that we would be disowned if were ever caught smoking. To this day, I can't stand that my parents would force my brother and I go to inside smoke-filled places just to keep them company.
You think that is bad......I rode in a PINTO with no seatbeat!
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