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AIBU?

to be really annoyed with the smokers outside the hospital?

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 14:49

There are no smoking signs everywhere and there is an allocated smoking area right opposite the entrance to the hospital but there were about 10 people all smoking right outside the hospital doors. Everyone has to walk past them inhaling their smoke. WIBU to say something to them? Point them in the direction of the smoking area? I have a feeling I'd be old to f-off but why should they be allowed to stand there unchallenged?

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motherinferior · 04/07/2014 16:10

I would like someone to breathe doughnut fumes on me

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limitedperiodonly · 04/07/2014 16:25

How do you feel about wine fumes motherinferior?

I had the best kind of lunch yesterday - paid for by someone else on expenses. I had two glasses of wine, admittedly large ones.

From there I went to Zara and bought a pair of jeans and three t-shirts in the sale. In the changing room I told the stern woman in charge with the walky-talky that she must be really tired what with it being hot and her being heavily pregnant and everything.

Yeah, all right, so I was trying to sneak in 14 items rather than the maximum 10, but it was hot and she was big - due at the end of August, as it happened - and I felt for her.

She let me in with my things and I like to think she was slightly revived by my wishing her good luck as I left.

I wonder now if she was a smoker. If she was, I take it all back Wink.

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motherinferior · 04/07/2014 16:33

I love a spot of tipsy shopping. And, obviously, an on-expenses lunch.

I am not a smoker, and write plenty about the Evils of Smoking, but some buggers do still smoke.

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LastTango · 04/07/2014 16:36

Didn't we do this thread a few weeks ago?

We're ALWAYS doing this thread, aren't we?

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 16:37

The smoking shelter is within hospital grounds - it's just opposite the entrance on the other side of the path/drop off area. Really not sure why we should have to just put up with it and hold our breath. As another poster said, they're the ones breaking the rules. The signs are everywhere and they have a designated area. Why can't they go be stressed/worried/ill there?

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limitedperiodonly · 04/07/2014 16:45

We're ALWAYS doing this thread, aren't we?

Those of us who are still clinging to life lasttango.

I count myself amongst the clean living, so I'll be defending the right of filthy smokers to indulge their putrid habit long after they've gone. Unless something else gets me first.

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 16:54

Limited, you are aware that I'm not objecting to their smoking - just where they are doing it.

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Numanoid · 04/07/2014 16:56

I won't even do it in a bus shelter, I'm overly-conscious of making other people breathe smoke.

I think on this occasion it was a case of inconsiderate people, not all smokers disregarding others.

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CoffeeTea103 · 04/07/2014 17:09

Fgs just hold your breath and walk on. No one is forcing you to stand there. It's just one of those things you deal with and carry on.

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 17:12

Why coffee? They're the ones ignoring the signs. Should they be allowed to smoke inside if they want to as well?

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7Days · 04/07/2014 17:22

I agree the ordinary person should just hold their breath and walk on, and don't be so bloody precious about it. Do people get similarly swoony when it comes to the car exhausts in the car park? People are probably struggling to cope in stressful stressful situations so cut them some slack, especially if you are only nipping in to outpatients for your toenail.

It's different to someone with breathing difficulties being expected to put up with it though, so for that reason they should of course be a bit away from the entrance.

But that's not really the complainers point in a lot of cases

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 17:27

Again - why should people have to just put up with people breaking the rules?

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limitedperiodonly · 04/07/2014 17:50

bumbleymummy What rules exist on a public thoroughfare as it was at my hospital?

There might have been a place that the smokers were trangressing as marked by those brass or steel studs in the pavement.

Do you know what? By the time I was well enough, and well beyond the time I was bored enough to shuffle down from my sixth floor ward in my Primark PJs and slippers to experience a bit of East London atmosphere with my mum, I was beyond caring about the shabby collection of smokers at the revolving door.

I'd gone in at early October when it was unseasonably warm. By the time I was well enough to walk it was late November when it was uncommonly fucking cold and my nurses told me to wrap up warm.

I notice that they didn't warn me to wear a mask.

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bumbleymummy · 04/07/2014 18:04

limited, I don't know what the rules are at your hospital. I only know that they were breaking the rules at mine. Why should I have to hold my breath while they ignore the signs and the allocated smoking area?

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SauvignonBlanche · 04/07/2014 18:09

I was outside having a cig within 30 mins of having dd Fucking hellBiscuit
YANBU OP

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MyFairyKing · 04/07/2014 18:14

I don't give a crap if you want to smoke but I'd quite like to sit on the benches outside the hospital and wait for a taxi. However, I can't becayse of lazy people smoking there, despite there being seated smoking shelters not so tar away. It's not the smoking that bothers me, it's the complete disregard for anyone but themselves.

I have a condition that makes "holding my breath" very difficult. If you told me to do that while smoking outside a hospital by a no smoking sign, I'm not sure I would be very polite.

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TurquoiseDress · 04/07/2014 18:15

I personally wouldn't challenge them, too chicken and you'd likely get some verbal abuse for your efforts.

Mention it to security.

To me, I couldn't really care less about grown adults smoking- it's what they choose to poison themselves with.

However, the number of smoking pregnant woman outside the hospital is a bit shocking. I find it appalling, as opposed to annoying.
But that's for another thread.

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TurquoiseDress · 04/07/2014 18:36

OP I think you are not BU.

And yes I realise I've missed the point of your post & just had a bitch about smokers.


Grin

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limitedperiodonly · 04/07/2014 18:39

bumbleymummy I've told you what the rules at my hospital were - they didn't own the pavement.

Maybe your friend's hospital owned a substantial area of land outside and if so, maybe smokers were breaking the 'rules' as established by the health authority. It's not the law of the land. Maybe health care professionals who were also smokers did that too. Maybe the HCPs who helped your friend.

I say this as someone who has never smoked.

But as someone with a serious health condition I'd let them both off.

IME if you have an emergency health condition the paramedics let you bypass the gaspers at the door.

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confusedwwyd · 04/07/2014 19:30

My ds has cystic fibrosis. I'd be bloody fuming if I had to walk him through a crowd of cunts who think it's appropriate to smoke outside a hospital. Their right to use a damaging stress reliever does not trump my childs right to enter the place he has to go for lung treatment without being subjected to something which can cause him serious harm. I'd like to see smoking banned in all hospital grounds.

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tass1960 · 04/07/2014 19:40

I used to think like the OP - then my mum was ill/ dying - stuck in hospital/ hospice and wanted a cigarette - all we could do was get her to the door of the hospital in her wheelchair - sit there with her while she had her smoke and take her back to bed and get her oxygen back on - people used to walk past tutting and muttering - like I would have done previously Now I hold my breath as I walk past them and hope they aren't as ill as my mum was.

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expatinscotland · 04/07/2014 19:41

Shoot all smokers with an MN automatic weapon.

Yawn.

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Sirzy · 04/07/2014 19:45

Surely basic manners say you don't stand just outside a door to smoke, especially at a hospital?

surely its not that hard to move a few steps away, or around the corner to a point where people don't have to pass you to get into the hospital?

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trixymalixy · 04/07/2014 19:46

How the fuck do you get a 3 year old mid asthma attack to hold their breath? And why the fuck should you have to?

I was utterly fuming at having to carry my DS through a cloud of smoke into the children's hospital.

Selfish cunts.

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Sirzy · 04/07/2014 19:48

I am wondering that too trixy, mentioned similar earlier and nobody came up with any solutions. But its fine, they can struggle as long as people can get a nicotine fix without having to move a few steps further to get away from the door!

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