{"id":1055,"date":"2006-05-26T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2006-07-06T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T16:58:10","slug":"before-you-hear-it-from-someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"before you hear it from someone else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/48\/153384388_7558df9675.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s set the groundwork which I can only set HALF of it because the other half I can&#8217;t even talk about yet.<\/p>\n<p>May&#8230;has sucked&#8230;we clear on this? SUCKED.<\/p>\n<p>So I decide yesterday that I was going to go to the gym and I grabbed &#8216;Cita and drug her out there with me.<br \/>\nTo reward ourselves we decided to get a latte from the casino, because EVERYONE knows that those indian casinos make thee best Starbuck Lattes.<br \/>\nI have 15 bucks. She has 15 bucks.  So we park our asses at a .5 cent machine.<\/p>\n<p>I smoke. The casino has a large section for non-smokers. I&#8217;m also a smoker that won&#8217;t smoke in public because I fear that someone will walk through the smoke and get all weird.  I smoke at home. I smoke at the bar with the other smokers and I smoke at the casino. I do not smoke in the non-smoking part of the casino.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not a smoker and you say, &#8220;can you put that out?&#8221; I will jump to put my smoke out and then spend the next 20 minutes telling you how sorry I am I smoke.  I don&#8217;t even care if you are mean to me about asking me to put it out. I PUT IT OUT.<\/p>\n<p>So i&#8217;m sitting at this .5 cent machine and this guy starts COUGHING so loudly.  I mean, it&#8217;s SOOOO obvious what he&#8217;s trying to do, but it&#8217;s gone from &#8216;cough cough&#8217; to &#8220;hack hack&#8221;.  I look over at him and he gives me the EVIL EYE and then COUGHS IN MY FACE.<\/p>\n<p>Let me just take a second to remind you, if he would have said a single word about putting out my smoke, I would have JUMPED, but he COUGHED IN MY FACE ON PURPOSE!<\/p>\n<p>I very nicely say, &#8220;Sir, there is a whole section of non-smoking right over there.&#8221; and I mean, I said it so nicely I could feel sugar forming on the corners of my mouth!<\/p>\n<p>He GROWLS&#8230;I use this word not for effect, but to truly describe his tone, &#8220;I DON&#8217;T WANT TO GO *pregnant pause* OVER THERE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I go back to playing&#8230;and smoking&#8230;.and then I start shaking because I am now&#8230;what is this? PISSED? Me? ANGRY? yes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HE THEN COUGHS NON STOP IN MY FACE. &#8220;HACK-THE FUCK-HACK!&#8221; IN MY FACE.  &#8216;Cita thought for sure he was going to pop something because he was coughing so loudly IN MY FACE. He wasn&#8217;t even playing his machine anymore, he was focusing on coughing on me.<\/p>\n<p>And then something in me snapped.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to the man and I said oh so sweetly, &#8220;Sir, if you cough on me one more time, I&#8217;m going to take this here ciggarette and put it out on your arm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a sound from behind me, It was &#8216;Cita&#8217;s jaw dropping.<\/p>\n<p>He retorted with, &#8220;Good, I&#8217;ll sue you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and I said something that came from my heart, &#8220;I&#8217;m not scared.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not scared anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still going to be one of those people that will ask if my smoke is bothering them and put it out. I&#8217;m also the person that will let the old lady go in front of me at the grocery store. I&#8217;m also going to the person that doesn&#8217;t put up with RUDE ASS PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a non smoker and someone is smoking and it&#8217;s bothering you&#8230;just ask them to put it out. If they don&#8217;t put it out, they are rude and they are going to die anyway&#8230;and they are going to smell.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a smoker and someone says in any tone, &#8216;ick please put it out.&#8217;, just do it. You can spark up later.<\/p>\n<p>But if you run into that little bastard from the casino, smoker or non smoker you better do what I did right before I got up from my spot.  Take a big ol drag of your smoke and blow that fucker right in his face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kristine, did you just say you would put your smoke out on him?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes, I did.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You know it&#8217;s time to get you into anger management, right?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that smoke is STILL billowing around his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s set the groundwork which I can only set HALF of it because the other half I can&#8217;t even talk about yet. May&#8230;has sucked&#8230;we clear on this? SUCKED. So I decide yesterday that I was going to go to the gym and I grabbed &#8216;Cita and drug her out there with me. To reward ourselves we decided to get a latte from the casino, because EVERYONE knows that those indian casinos make thee best Starbuck Lattes. I have 15 bucks. She has 15 bucks. So we park our asses at a .5 cent machine. I smoke. The casino has a large section for non-smokers. I&#8217;m also a smoker that won&#8217;t smoke in public because I fear that someone will walk through the smoke and get all weird. I smoke at home. I smoke at the bar with the other smokers and I smoke at the casino. I do not smoke in the non-smoking part of the casino. If you&#8217;re not a smoker and you say, &#8220;can you put that out?&#8221; I will jump to put my smoke out and then spend the next 20 minutes telling you how sorry I am I smoke. I don&#8217;t even care if you are mean to me about asking me to put it out. I PUT IT OUT. So i&#8217;m sitting at this .5 cent machine and this guy starts COUGHING so loudly. I mean, it&#8217;s SOOOO obvious what he&#8217;s trying to do, but it&#8217;s gone from &#8216;cough cough&#8217; to &#8220;hack hack&#8221;. I look over at him and he gives me the EVIL EYE and then COUGHS IN MY FACE. Let me just take a second to remind you, if he would have said a single word about putting out my smoke, I would have JUMPED, but he COUGHED IN MY FACE ON PURPOSE! I very nicely say, &#8220;Sir, there is a whole section of non-smoking right over there.&#8221; and I mean, I said it so nicely I could feel sugar forming on the corners of my mouth! He GROWLS&#8230;I use this word not for effect, but to truly describe his tone, &#8220;I DON&#8217;T WANT TO GO *pregnant pause* OVER THERE.&#8221; I go back to playing&#8230;and smoking&#8230;.and then I start shaking because I am now&#8230;what is this? PISSED? Me? ANGRY? yes&#8230; HE THEN COUGHS NON STOP IN MY FACE. &#8220;HACK-THE FUCK-HACK!&#8221; IN MY FACE. &#8216;Cita thought for sure he was going to pop something because he was coughing so loudly IN MY FACE. He wasn&#8217;t even playing his machine anymore, he was focusing on coughing on me. And then something in me snapped. I turned to the man and I said oh so sweetly, &#8220;Sir, if you cough on me one more time, I&#8217;m going to take this here ciggarette and put it out on your arm.&#8221; There was a sound from behind me, It was &#8216;Cita&#8217;s jaw dropping. He retorted with, &#8220;Good, I&#8217;ll sue you.&#8221; and I said something that came from my heart, &#8220;I&#8217;m not scared.&#8221; I&#8217;m not scared anymore. I&#8217;m still going to be one of those people that will ask if my smoke is bothering them and put it out. I&#8217;m also the person that will let the old lady go in front of me at the grocery store. I&#8217;m also going to the person that doesn&#8217;t put up with RUDE ASS PEOPLE. So if you&#8217;re a non smoker and someone is smoking and it&#8217;s bothering you&#8230;just ask them to put it out. If they don&#8217;t put it out, they are rude and they are going to die anyway&#8230;and they are going to smell. If you&#8217;re a smoker and someone says in any tone, &#8216;ick please put it out.&#8217;, just do it. You can spark up later. But if you run into that little bastard from the casino, smoker or non smoker you better do what I did right before I got up from my spot. Take a big ol drag of your smoke and blow that fucker right in his face. &#8220;Kristine, did you just say you would put your smoke out on him?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, I did.&#8221; &#8220;You know it&#8217;s time to get you into anger management, right?&#8221; &#8220;Yep.&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure that smoke is STILL billowing around his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}