Posted by Rittmeister
on 1/6/2009, 5:23 pm
32.176.217.216
My wife is a regular smoker who enjoys her habit (as I do) and over the years that we have been together she has been fairly skillful in dealing with abrasive comments from nonsmokers--until recently, she left work early to stop at the DMV office to renew her driver's license. As the local office near our home is some distance from her workplace, she had two cigarettes during the drive.
She arrived at the office smelling of smoke, went into the DMV and even though the office was somewhat crowded she didn't have to wait long.
A young African-American male waited on her, while preparing the paperwork for her renewal request, made an utterance within earshot about her Ashtray breath being the pits. While wishing to avoid a scene, my wife bit her tongue and said nothing. To say the least this experience angered her and she believes that smokers are the last minority that it is permissible to oppress with the blessings of government. I did call this DMV office to protest my wife's treatment and got what I would call a luke warm response. Has anyone else had any experiences with discourteous, ill-mannered nonsmokers?
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