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AIBU?

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Original poster

to expect my neighbours not to smoke on their patio on lovely sunny days because I can smell it and it's HORRIBLE

110 replies

SoupDragon · 15/04/2007 12:35

Of course, I am being unreasonable and I have absolutely no intention of suggesting they don't do it but it doesn't stop me grumbling to myself every time I get a whiff of cigarette smoke on my patio of in through the open kitchen door. It's so foul! I have no idea why people smoke at all, it's completely beyond me. It has to be one of the most antisocial habits in the world

OP posts:
NadineBaggott · 15/04/2007 17:04

oh the irony of day trippers heading for the Lakes for 'some fresh air' then lighting up beside the lake

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2007 17:04

yes if you have builders in then you won't be able to smoke

expatinscotland · 15/04/2007 17:03

I predict smoking will be banned everywhere but in your own home or car shortly.

I really do.

And sometimes it's even banned in your home, for example, if you have an NHS employee visiting you.

zippitippitoes · 15/04/2007 17:03

so when the ban comes int here will actually be more people smoking outised eg in pub gardens

noddyholder · 15/04/2007 17:02

Smoking keeps you skinny

FluffyMummy123 · 15/04/2007 17:01

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MrsBadger · 15/04/2007 17:00

[redraws mental pic of Aitch to look more Polard-esque]

cod I am similarly surprised at posh weddings
it is the stress don'tcherknow
trust funds don't manage themselves

AitchTwoOh · 15/04/2007 17:00

did you see HP's school? [geek]

expatinscotland · 15/04/2007 16:57

we went to England yesterday and it was weird to see people smoking in the pub!

AitchTwoOh · 15/04/2007 16:57

you snobby bitch soupy, that's her house and everything and everything and she can smoke if she wants to and everything and who are you to say she can't and everything and this is typical mumsnet and everything not even allowing people to enjoy themselves and everything.

something like that?
we've had no smoking in bars etc for a year here in bonnie scotland, it's fab. but it does mean that the smokers are outside in summer.

FluffyMummy123 · 15/04/2007 16:55

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electra · 15/04/2007 16:53

Yes, I could have written the OP myself. Smoking is, indeed anti-social. My MIL informed me that it is now banned in all public places in Wales, including pubs! Here's to hoping the same thing happens in England too - if it's in the pipe line I can't wait!

kimi · 15/04/2007 16:50

Fizzbuzz....... Get some Des O'Conner or Max Bygraves recoards and beg,borrow or steal the biggest set of speakers you can find.

OK SoupDragon just to make you happy and this more like the mumsnet we know and love......

You are being very unreasonable, the poor woman may have issues you know nothing about, it is wrong wrong wrong to look down and judge others, she has rights, you are being smokest and I have reported you to mumsnet HQ. blah blah blah blah........
Hope you feel better now.

beansprout · 15/04/2007 14:32

I agree with you too. I was going to say that smokers don't tend to care about other people but if they insist of making themselves and others around them ill with their filth, then the smell in the your garden will be the least of their concerns I suppose.

I cannnot wait until it is banned. Awful stuff.

fizzbuzz · 15/04/2007 14:29

Any suggestions for horrid people opposite me playing their awful rap music, full of swearing in practically every sentence at full blast?

Original poster
SoupDragon · 15/04/2007 14:17

But this is Mumsnet, Franny. Someone should have come along by now and vociferously castigated me for even thinking that she should stop

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joash · 15/04/2007 14:15

Although the July thing is good, it doesn't do enough - smoking should only be allowed in side their own homes.

kimi · 15/04/2007 13:59

Go to B&Q get a garden sprinkler and set it up in the wrong place to water your garden.........

OOOOOOPPPPPSSSSSSS.

FrannyandZooey · 15/04/2007 13:53

Well you kind of said that you don't actually expect her not to do it, just that you don't like it

I think we can agree that that is not unreasonable

kimi · 15/04/2007 13:47

Well its her garden and her lungs she's killing so I guess it is her right, but that does not make it any less unpleasant and nasty for you.

I can not wait till smoking in public places is banned, sadly this will not stop people in parks and beaches, and you will still get the hardcore thickos that scream "my civil rights are being infringed" because they can't smoke in the pub/restraunt/et.

NuttyMuffins · 15/04/2007 13:44

At least yours is only cigarette smoke you can smell. Next door have a regular visitor that only smokes the wacky stuff and he stand in the back garden to do it, or on the front door step, so either my kitchen or hallway stink of the stuff.

Original poster
SoupDragon · 15/04/2007 13:42

does no one think I'm unreasonable? Have I found something MN agrees on? [naive]

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kimi · 15/04/2007 13:39

Put dirty nappy bin next to the back fence nice and full, chuck on some fresh prawns for good measure then go away for a week

singingmum · 15/04/2007 13:35

Find a smell that she hates and then make sure that when you see her smoking burn a candle or find way to waft smell over at her.
Revenge can be sweet especially if the smell she hates is

FrannyandZooey · 15/04/2007 13:32

I know what you mean. When I was pregnant the woman next door used to smoke by the back door of her kitchen, and I used to have to run around shutting windows because it would come straight in my house and made me want to heave.

It doesn't bother me so much now I am not pregnant but I do see your point of view.