Pet peeve

Yeah, one thing that I absolutely HATE, I mean completely despise is when people ask me for cigarettes. No, it isn't because I'm cheap. I can honestly say that I tend to be quite giving. I have narrowed my hatred of this act down to five valid reasons:

1. If you could afford your drug habit back then and no longer do those drugs how is it possible to not afford a $6 a day nicotine habit?

2. Bumming cigarettes to people reminds me of rehab. I HATED rehab

3. It gives me the impression that you are treating me like your bitch, mistaking my kindness for weakness. I fear I may act out and show how unweak I am

4. The people who bum from me all have some sort of income in the form of a paycheck or government assistance (I have neither)

5. It forces me to face the fact that I am unable to quit smoking. I HATE being a smoker myself.

I still have a neighbor who knocks on my door, calls me on the phone or, get this... WATCHES OUT HER WINDOW waiting for me to pull in in order to ask for a cigarette.

I mean, c'mon now. Its not like I have magical, super-flavorful cigarettes. They're fucking Marlboro Mediums bought at the same stores everyone else buys from.

I guess I am a bitch. I rarely say 'no' anymore.

My newest goal is to simply deny ALL requests for smokes. If I offer, that's different, but I'm done with the handouts.

 

I'll only give someone a cigarette if I know they'll return the favour by giving one back to me sometime. And likewise, if I need to ask for a cigarette, I'll return one to the person once I buy myself a new pack. I hate freeloaders.

 

fuck ur neighbour sounds like a loser, OD
id tell him/her to fuck off and get their own

i dont mind sharing my ciggies - but i prefer to b the one to offer, its only with friends who i know wud do the same for me (and sometimes do)
if a random comes up to me on the street and asks for a cigarette i flat out say no
i dont hav the money to go giving out my fags to ppl i wudnt know from adam

and yea bumming ciggies reminds ME of rehab too - id never really thought of that before but yuk ur right
only i was the one doing the bumming at rehab most of the time

gd goal to set!

 

Its funny, when people pahhandle for money on the street I always tell them 'I'm broke but ya want a cigarette?'. They tend to say 'no' for some reason. Weird.

 

thats usually cos they want the money for booze - over here anyway
one thing i also dont give randoms.....money

u want to get drunk - fine, pay for ur own habit
ive got a fucking meth habit to pay for (not that id tell them that but i think i look enough like a methhead for them to work out wat my moneys going on....meth and cigarettes)

 

OK your neighbor is nuts. Thats so over the top. I do want to defend it a lil. My bf does it now and then. But his reason is that I hate when he smokes. He doesn't smoke usually if he doesn't have a pack in the house. If he does get one he keeps it in the basement where he has to go down there to get it and sometimes smoke it down there so it doesn't bother me. My sinuses can't take it. He gets to where he wants to smoke when he drinks, just like 2. So rather than buy a whole pack and irritate me and make me sick, he bums a couple off his friends at the bar. And of course if he had a pack he would give them some. Now and then if they are a lil resistant or are getting down to half a pack or so he will pay them for them. So in that situation there is a reason for it rather than just being a cheap low life, and of course he would never ask someone he didn't know. These are all good friends. Don't ask someone you wouldn't be willing to buy a drink for in return.