[MD] Smoking

[Ant McWatt]

Mary stated January 19th 2010:


When you live down here [in Texas] you quickly learn to cater to religious people.  You
sort of pander like a sycophant.  It's the safest way.  I've been prayed
over, invited to "pack the pew" night, looked at askance, and maligned at
various times over the years enough to know it's best just to not bring it
up at all, and if you get backed into a corner, just smile sweetly and lie,
lie, lie your way out of it.  Why is this so?
 
 
Ant McWatt comments:

Survival?  


Mary also observed:

It's a real education.  Smoking outside with people that would otherwise be total strangers day after day,
at 10, noon, and 2, for as many years as you end up working at a place is a
real education as opposed to the kind you're supposed to get.


Ant McWatt comments:

Yes, I noticed recently (probably with the banning of indoor smoking at British pubs in 2006)
that outdoor smoking gives you entrance to the largest informal social club in the world.  It's
not great biologically (and as that late great Texan, Bill Hicks once said, "there are 
better drugs for you!") but socially and, occasionally, intellectually it's a different matter.
 


 
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