We have been blessed here on the left coast to receive a reprieve from our usual dreary wet winter weather with a few nice days. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I tossed on a jacket, grabbed a coffee, loaded my favourite cob with H&H Butternut Burley, and headed to the front porch to read the morning paper(s).
About 1/3 of the way through my bowl, I get this feeling that I am being watched. Lowering my paper, I see a massive black SUV creep by, with the female occupant giving me a look that would melt ice. Being in a particularly chipper mood this morning, I give her a wave and a smile, and go back to my paper. Four or five minutes later, I hear another vehicle, this one stopping on the gravel shoulder infront of my house. Sure enough, its the same black SUV, with the same woman...although this time, she gets out to tell me off for smoking - on my own damned property!
Knowing that sense probably isn't high on this womans list of attributes, I decided the best course of action was to let her rant, rather than argue, but sadly, this experience just destroyed any good mood I was in (and, due to my being irate, destroyed my puffing cadence, now I am gulping hot smoke with a vengeance!).
About 1/3 of the way through my bowl, I get this feeling that I am being watched. Lowering my paper, I see a massive black SUV creep by, with the female occupant giving me a look that would melt ice. Being in a particularly chipper mood this morning, I give her a wave and a smile, and go back to my paper. Four or five minutes later, I hear another vehicle, this one stopping on the gravel shoulder infront of my house. Sure enough, its the same black SUV, with the same woman...although this time, she gets out to tell me off for smoking - on my own damned property!
Knowing that sense probably isn't high on this womans list of attributes, I decided the best course of action was to let her rant, rather than argue, but sadly, this experience just destroyed any good mood I was in (and, due to my being irate, destroyed my puffing cadence, now I am gulping hot smoke with a vengeance!).
