@Pastorpiper: I think you handled that well. I don't know if you need a wake-up call. But if you should decide to stop smoking, it should be your decision and yours alone. And I agree that it is a strange experience to be caught off guard like that.
I Got a Scolding Today
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I dunno about the lightning strikes. My dad was struck by lightning twice in his lifetime. When he had to get a hip replacement, it was on the same side that both the lightning strike's charges went to ground through. Coincidence or many-decades-long cause to effect?
Then there's that one National Park Service Ranger who had been struck by lightning on seven different occasions (the last time I heard about him, anyway).
Giving up smoking a pipe (or any other thing some busybody considers to be a "bad habit") will MOST CERTAINLY NOT prevent one from eventually dying, as there is no Guarantee printed on the back of anybody's birth certificate.
Then there's that one National Park Service Ranger who had been struck by lightning on seven different occasions (the last time I heard about him, anyway).
Giving up smoking a pipe (or any other thing some busybody considers to be a "bad habit") will MOST CERTAINLY NOT prevent one from eventually dying, as there is no Guarantee printed on the back of anybody's birth certificate.
I agree with workman that the woman was responding to her brother's illness and demise. I don't think it was hypocrisy, just the usual self-contradiction. I just had bacon for breakfast. I'm wearing a t-shirt that says, "Keep Calm And Eat Bacon." But I like pigs. They're interesting critters -- smart, energetic, adaptive. I've stood near a sow who had built a nest in the woods and had her litter of piglets. I was careful and quiet, advised that she could be defensive. I appreciated the whole scene. I still like bacon. It's the human condition. Health-wise, many things are a balancing act. Some people overdo, pipes or bacon. Some are so susceptible, just a little of some offending exposure will make them ill. I'm not a young person, not a young adult, but I'd like to live much longer. Choose, and balance your pleasures.
No. She had reason to dislike smoking, she didn't have reason to say something to someone else, as an uninvited criticism.
OK I got one. My sons friend says to me today, "You know smoking's bad for you?" I looked up at him from my chair and said,"So is food, but you don't hear or see me coming over to your parents house and making that obvious statement, now do you?" He responded, " You got a point." I told him that if I spoke to his dad about his son's protectionist leanings, his father probably wouldn't be too happy that his son was regurgitating mindless propaganda in another man's home. I told him we'd keep the discussion to ourselves. Something in the water here lately, huh.
Had I had time, I'd have sought the manager and informed him or her of the boorish comments by an employee.
Bug, I might've known the snarks would be you. }
I've had a few every now & then myself. Yoda, I'm with you. If they're not paying my bills (especially if I'm paying theirs) , personal pain or no, I don't need them as my self-appointed Messiah.
I've had a few every now & then myself. Yoda, I'm with you. If they're not paying my bills (especially if I'm paying theirs) , personal pain or no, I don't need them as my self-appointed Messiah.
I fully agree. My mother smoked cigarettes for 50 years and died of lung cancer. That never gave me a sense of needing to warn others. Some folks smoke all their lives and live into their 80's and 90's. Some don't. We can all make out own decisions on how to live our lives. I smoked cigarettes for 20 years and quit, not out of fear, but because of an embarrassing cough. After a number of years I began smoking cigars on occasion. Now I've switched to pipes and am enjoying it.
I try to follow what Jesus said about judging others: "whoever is without sin, cast the first stone."
Not that smoking is a sin, of course, but if someone I love is hurting themselves by some behavior, I would lovingly share my concerns. But to come down on some stranger? No way. They can do what they want.
Maybe it was a business tactic,,put you off smoking so she could buy your pipes at a knock down price to sell lol.
As my father once put it "opinions are like assholes, everyone has them and they all stink"
Most of my friends and family know I smoke a pipe. My immediate family doesn't mind because they know why I started, it reduces stress and calms me down. When you have anxiety disorder you take calm however you get it. I nice evening smoke is better than a handful of pills to me.
The rest of my family and friends either do not mind or know better than to say anything because I've earned the reputation of telling them to stuff it in the past.
It sounds to me like this lady is still dealing with the death of her brother and obviously blames smoking for it. Understandable but it was not her place to lecture you, a stranger and a customer, on the matter. You probably handled it best, I'd likely of started a war of words with her. But I'm stubborn like that haha
Most of my friends and family know I smoke a pipe. My immediate family doesn't mind because they know why I started, it reduces stress and calms me down. When you have anxiety disorder you take calm however you get it. I nice evening smoke is better than a handful of pills to me.
The rest of my family and friends either do not mind or know better than to say anything because I've earned the reputation of telling them to stuff it in the past.
It sounds to me like this lady is still dealing with the death of her brother and obviously blames smoking for it. Understandable but it was not her place to lecture you, a stranger and a customer, on the matter. You probably handled it best, I'd likely of started a war of words with her. But I'm stubborn like that haha
These tobacco is bad offences' and public discussions are starting to really get on my nerves lately,back in the 60-70ies no person was opening these discussions but today this seems to becoming obligatory.
+a few dozen, techie & seldom. I came to terms with my mortality eons ago & gave myself a wake (srsly) for my 30th b-day. Everything since then has been gravy!
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