Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: noisy kids in restaurants... Message-ID: <8491@watarts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 14:59:40 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8491 Posted: Wed Jul 10 14:59:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:07:56 EDT References: <220@cuuxa.UUCP> <620@adobe.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30 Summary: In article <620@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes: >I remember sitting in a small cafe/restaurant in Bangor, Maine some >time last year, when these two kids (maybe 14 or 15) sat down near me >and had a hot dog. Not long after that, they each pulled out large >cigars and started to puff on them, for godonlyknows what reason. I >hate cigars. I also hate Illinois Nazis, but that is something else. >Anyway, after about 4-5 minutes of this obnoxiousness, I finally >turned to the kids and said, "Hey--why don't you put those goddamned >things out--they smell like shit!" (which they did). I was 23 at the >time, and I'm not entirely sure why they listened to me, but they >both put out the cigars, sat foolishly for a minute or two, then >left. I don't normally do things like that, but I'm glad I did. I >have enough of a problem with somebody smoking cigars that actually >likes them, but a couple of kids who were doing it only to impress >each other was too much for me. Goddamned kids. Kids these days. >Grumble. Cough. > >GlennNOWASTEDBYTESFORSIGNATURESHEREReid Sami Kehala and Eric "The real thing" Murray, two World renonwned bridge players of Canadian Origin sat down one day at a bridge table for some team of four play. They pulled out two huge stogeys and asked if the opponents would mind them smoking, as soon as they said they wouldn't they looked at each other and put the cigars away saying no reason to waste a good cigar... -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis