Just had the following conversation with a SPOTD who lit up a cigarette directly underneath the No smoking in this area sign hanging outside my building.  It was reasonable that he may not have seen the sign because it was hanging from the ceiling and the path he’d taken to get there meant he might have missed it so I didn’t go on the attack immediately.

Me: Excuse me, this is a “no smoking” area.

SPOTD: Well, woop de doo.  How about that?

Me: So if you could just move out of this enclosed area, that’d be great.

SPOTD (taking another big drag): A “no smoking” area, you say?

Me: Yes.  Because it’s a covered area beside office windows.

SPOTD: Well then, I’ll just stand one metre away and everything will be perfectly okay.

Me: Actually, if you could just stand three metres away, you’ll be in the path of traffic and it’ll be much better for everyone, I’m sure.

Grr.  I can appreciate that he might not have seen the sign initially because it was hanging above him but still, there’s something about nicotine that just gives people the sort of mentality that you usually only find in a bin of assorted by-products out the back of an meat processing plant.

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