This has been really bothering me, and my DH too.
Last weekend we went to a theme park with my two stepchildren (and my bump! I am 12 weeks pg), and knowing how bad the queues get we headed straight for the ride that usually has the longest queue. It was already a wait of around 45 minutes - but we started queueing and were telling each other bad jokes to pass the time.
Suddenly, we smell smoke. I noticed it first because my pregnancy has had me heaving at the slightest smell of smoke, and my DH noticed it about a minute later and looked around for the culprit - it had said at the start of the line that no smoking was permitted in the queue, so we were both shocked to suddenly smell it. I started to heave a little bit, so my hubby located said guy (he was in the very large family behind us) and informed him that he shouldn't be smoking in the queue. The guy says "Yeah I know." DH blinks and says "But you're doing it anyway?" The guy just smirks. DH asked him to put it out please, and the guy starts to argue very loudly and aggressively, saying it's a free fucking country etc. etc. I butt in, saying that I'm three months pg and I'd really rather not be breathing in smoke, and finally the guy's Mrs pokes him and tells him to put it out. He does so, and we say thank you.
That should have been the end of it. But as soon as we turn back to our kids, we hear him saying really loudly "Can you believe the attitude of some people. Fucking idiots. Total cunts." Etc etc, In front of his OWN 4 kids and our two. I just talked over him and asked everyone what their favourite knock knock joke was, and we just tried to ignore him throughout the rest of the queue. About 15 minutes later he started swearing again and left the line, presumably to go and smoke elsewhere, and didn't return (thank goodness).
I have to ask, because his reaction has been bothering me, WAS I being unreasonable to ask him to stop smoking when the sign CLEARLY said no smoking, and I was literally heaving as I was talking to him?? All my instincts say I was well within reason, but then why did he react so badly? We asked nicely, we said thank you, what the hell was his problem? And who the hell behaves that way in front of children??
GRRRRRRRRRRR.