Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bob From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Smokers enjoy the taste but NOT ashtray junk! Message-ID: <241@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:48:19 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.241 Posted: Wed Aug 21 11:48:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:24:30 EDT References: <684@ttidcc.UUCP> <600@hou2g.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 35 Summary: Organization : Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls NJ Keywords: In article <600@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X) writes: >>> ... That's why smokers >>>grind their cigs into the floor with their shoes--there are plenty of trash >>>cans, but no ashtrays. :-) > >>Then why is the biggest pile of cigarettes on the floor always under the >>wall mounted ashtray (if there is one)? > >Easy! Because people have thrown so much junk into the ashtray >above that it's become a trash can! :-) > > This is total BS. In high school I worked in a grocery store and among my duties was sweeping the floor at the end of the day. Despite the fact that there was a butt can at the end of EVERY AISLE the majority of crap on the floor was cigarette butts. Aside from this, every car which i have ever been in has an ashtray in it. But what do smokers do with their butts? They toss them out the window. I swear to god that one of these days Im going to get out of my car, pick the thing up, and toss it back in. The ones that are slighly more considerate fill up the ashtray first, and then dump the full ashtray into the street. I have also witnessed a tobacco chewer do this with his spitoon ( a styrofoam cup ). My theory is that nicotine severely disrupts brain function turning otherwise decent people into thoughless, inconsiderate slobs. And to tie in another flame, they are prime candidates to be shot through the lungs ( only the ones that use the world as their ashtray ). > Scott Bob Weiler.