Posted by Allan on 4/14/2008, 6:11 am
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Sorry in advance if what I'm seeking advice on is slightly similar to other topics here. Anyway though, to everyone who posts here, I've kept wondering, if you've ever been caught smoking by someone you've been trying to hide your smoking from, which excuses have helped you catch the least flack/anger/etc. from others?
I came extremely, extremely close last year to getting caught as a smoker by one of my friends(thanks to my anti-smoking parents, which I only reluctantly told them that I smoke, after I had JUST ONE extremely stupid lapse in not covering my tracks enough *sigh*), and I've been constantly amazed that this female friend of mine hasn't guessed and/or figured it out all this time that I've been a smoker for some time(I'll note that I didn't smoke, back when me and this girl first became friends). Thing is though, I'm just so damn ready to tell her I smoke(I just really, really wanna admit it to her I smoke), and get any annoyance periods she may have about me hiding it for some time from her over with. Especially since I almost felt like telling her last summer, when I went to a hemp fest with her last year, and deep down was pissed at myself for not telling her I smoke that day(not surprisingly).
Also, me hiding my smoking from this girl is just getting to the point of major annoyance, and I'm tired of hiding what's increasingly become a major part of me, and habit I love doing, away from her(I've also hinted to her that I was gonna reveal a major secret(my smoking) about myself to her several months back). It's like I'm repressing a major part of myself I wanna express to her, every time I deny and lie to her about my smoking. I just so badly wanna tell her I smoke, especially after I learned the hard way last summer that I felt way more free in being a smoker once my parents(despite them being antis) knew I smoke, than I did beforehand, when I used to hide my smoking from my parents. Not to mention how refreshing(and in another way, liberated) I felt after telling them, and NO LONGER having to hide it from them.
Which excuses have worked the best for others here in minimizing anger/flack/etc. that you've gotten from such person(s) you've tried to hide smoking from, if you've gotten caught smoking? I'm thinking that I'll just use something along the lines of being very stressed about life events, and that smoking really helped in reducing my previously high internal stress levels, but I'm not sure what'd be the best thing to say. Hope I can get some good advice from y'all here....
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