sigh Does it make me a sanctimonious bitch to whine about how immature many of my peers are?
Vaguely-related, in that it involves Smoker Girl: back towards the beginning of the semester, she’s sitting outside (smoking), and I come out and unlike my bike from the rack. She asks me why I ride my bike. I say because, you know, I enjoy it, plus it’s often more convenient than the bus or getting a ride. She asks if I mean I don’t have a car, which I confirm as true. She expresses utter astonishment that my parents did not buy me a car before sending me off to school, because what’s the point of going away to college if you don’t have a car so you can go on road trips down to Mexico and stuff?
You’re kidding, right? Drunks falling back into thier rooms at 3am are quiet as mice. They don’t decide to play lacross against the security doors at the end of the dorm hallway or play music loud as shit cos I’M DRUNK AND NOT READY FOR BED! And hell, since underage drinking is in fact illegal and all, RAs report that to the police, right?
People who voluntarily signed up to live in a non-smoking dorm should not be smoking in the dorm. This is a no-brainer.
On the other hand, people who are all “Ohmygod, cigarette smoke!!1!!1 It burns! My lungs, they are seizing up!!! I’ll never breathe properly again!!! Everyone in a 3 mile radius will now get emphysema and cancer and we’re all going to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!” can get a grip and maybe see someone about that martyrdom complex.
Dear Dorm Room smokers. Keep it up. I don’t find the smell to be obnoxious. So long as you don’t blow the smoke directly in my face, we’re cool.
I have never, and will never, understand this hate people feel towards smoke. Strong BO and more than a hint of perfume are, imo, worse. Much worse. Those things aren’t illegal though, nor do I want them to be. I simply avoid them.
If you can smell smoke from behind a closed door, and that tiny bit of smoke bothers you this much, you live a sheltered, boring existence and I feel sorry for you.
Back in the day, no one complained about PCBs in the water, having sex with 12 year olds or having a state religion. If only we could go back to those days, these things would be just fine, just like smoking…
Jesus christ, can you people not read? Some people have allergies. Bad allergies, which can be triggered by all sorts of particulate matter in the air. This includes smoke.
Is it causing me severe distress to the point where I can’t breathe? No, and I never fucking said so. Is it an unnecessary factor that is worsening an already-existent problem? Yes. Would I be fucking thrilled if it didn’t bother me, and I didn’t have allergies and didn’t spend thirty-some bucks per month on drugs to control them and didn’t need to get pissed off when someone was smoking inside the non-smoking dorm? Yeah.
NinjaChick - I think you have a valid complaint. You signed up for non-smoking accomodation, and people are smoking there. That’s a bad thing. My ire is directed at the university, who, in order to make a point, have made the situation worse for everyone. Were there choices of smoking and non-smoking accomodation, I think it highly likely that the policy would be more (though not perfectly) respected in the non-smoking dorms.
But that isn’t the situation, unfortunately, and you are getting the short end of the stick. Which sucks.
At this point, I have to as if I’m being whooshed or not?
Now, as far as smoking, the only real thing that bothers me is that I don’t like the smell. It doesn’t make me sick, but I think it’s not exactly roses. HOWEVER, there is one exception. It’s kind of stupid, but growing up, my grandmother on my dad’s side always smoked like a chimney. So her house ALWAYS smelled like smoke.
Well, Gramma died a little over two years ago, and this summer Mom, Baby Sis and I went to clean their house, as Papap was going to a retirement community. And…the house was almost scary. It no longer smelled like cigarettes. So it still looked the same-but it wasn’t. I couldn’t wait to get out of there.
Forgive us for thinking you were being melodromatic when you told us you were going to knock the smoker over very hard, and then kneel on the smoker’s chest until the smoker cannot breathe, and punch the smoker in the face many many times, until your knuckles break and you cannot physically punch the smoker any more, and then kick the smoker over and over and over in the stomach until the smoker is dead. It was a silly conclusion for some of us to jump to.
I paid to get out of a lease early to get away from smoke. I never complained, because smoking was not against the rules there. I just quietly paid and moved to on-campus housing with a rule against smoking.
If I have to deal with some self-entitled jerk who moves to a no-smoking building with the intention of smoking inside, then yes, I will be furious, and will probably imagine myself beating them up.
I grew up in a family of chain smokers and I (somehow) still have a sense of smell. BO and perfume from another person doesn’t leech into your own clothes to make you smell like shit (and yes to all of you smokers no matter how much you douse yourself in perfume YOU STILL SMELL LIKE SHIT).
You can tell someone to take a shower or go lighter on the perfume. Try telling a person to smoke less.
I don’t see how caring about what you smell/have to put up with (she fucking PAYS to attend this college and live in this dorm, she shouldn’t have to put up with something that ISN’T FUCKING ALLOWED IN THE FIRST PLACE) has to do with what type of existance they lead. Nice attempt at trolling though.
I would have some sympathy for the smoker girl except that the dorm rules forbid smoking. If she wants to smoke in her own room, then she should get a place to live off-campus. If you were caught smoking pot, what would happen? You would get into some sort of trouble. Same thing with underage drinking. If you got busted, you got in trouble. One of the lessons you should be learning in college is that your own desires are not paramount and there are consequences for not following the rules. The Residence Hall is failing to do there job properly and help her learn the latter lesson.
When I was in college at Virginia Tech, you could opt for a non smoking room or a smoking room. I think that they segregated the smokers onto a different floor, but it has been a long enough time that I can’t recall. Even as a smoker, I preferred to smoke outside, so I didn’t stink up my room which was small. When I was there, you could smoke on campus, just not in the buildings which worked out fairly well. It was a given that parties and bars would have people smoking and that they would reek of cigarettes and other items which could be smoked.
One year, I lived with smoker roommates and we smoked in the apartment. I didn’t notice it at the time, but friends have assured me that our place smelled like an ashtray and that was why everyone’s girlfriend preferred to spend the night at their place.
Edited to Add: I remember all the stupid shit that we and our hallmates did on a regular basis, and smoking would probably rate as the least annoying. My neighbors had a dead bird in their dorm room for several months. That was pretty gross.
Remembering back to my dorm - no, not so much. It was a very mellow place. While there were many ill-conceived activities and many decisions that seemed much cooler at the time than they are in retrospect… those activities and decisions tended to be quiet.