Is it 'common' to smoke on your front step?

[LookAtTheFlowersKerry]

My mother has spotted my decorative boot ashtray out the front. She is HORRIFIED.

I smoke out the front if it's raining (there's a covered bit, porchy thing). Otherwise I smoke out the back.

My mother says it's terribly low class and my neighbours will all judge me. They normally just say hello tbh, and comment on the shitty weather.

Is she right though? Am I committing a terrible faux pas?

What's worse is that I'm often in my pjs and slippers...

Aibu?

It's Chavtastic

I used to be on Netmums a lot years ago.
I will never forget a thread where a member was being horrendously judgy about her neighbours for no particular reason and trying to get everyone to agree with her.
People were not joining in and she was outraged. Her parting shot was 'but they sit outside their front doors and TALK to each other!'

She would have bloody exploded if she caught sight of your fags and decorative boot

I do this. It's even more fun when you get to know dog walkers etc. that pass by when you're out front I don't care about being thought of as common!

Only if you are wearing your dressing gown.

She says common, I say approachable. I'd say hello on the way past.

NDN's son smokes outside the front door. I wish she had a decorative boot ashtray - he just throws his raw ends into the flowerbed where they lie like an unusual mulch.

Yep its pretty common, not as common as walking while smoking though, so stand still and you will be fine

No it's fine. Who gives a shit if it's considered 'common'? There's nothing wrong with being common anyway...the only people who perceive things negatively as such are insecure types with something to prove...and that's their problem.
Do what you like.

Yes, very common !

Get yourself a cigarette holder (there's a 'jewelled' version for £8.50), your mother won't be able to make any more 'low class' comments I was going to suggest an embroidered smoking jacket, but I think that's going a little far.

www.smokersheavenshop.co.uk/Cigarette-Holders/

Two of our neigbours do this, out the front, in a variety of nighttime attire.

I don't judge them much as I smugly sit in my smug house smugly vaping

I love to sit on the front doorstep, in the evening sun, drinking a cheap pink vino and watching the cats play.

I live in Switzerland. I am known amongst the neighbours. I think they see me as 'exotic'.

I agree with moo . It also pisses me off because smoking isnt just your decision, if you decide to smoke then you are making anyone who goes near you smoke. So anyone who has to come within a few meters of you to get to their front door or who might want their window open after cooking etc will not only smell the stink of smoke but it can also affect their health, and I think that is ridiculously selfish.

There's a house round the corner where they have two plastic garden chairs to sit in while smoking and drinking cider out of plastic bottles - give a nice chill-out vibe to the neighbourhood in the summer!

Ooh I might put a chair out there.

YANBU. I would do it out of badness. My mother decided a while ago that people who sit outside their front door are common, smoking or not. It makes me chuckle as she is from a distinctly working class background and has now decided that she has an Aga and goes to Sorrento that everything is common.

I would totally smoke out of the front of my house if only I had a decorative boot.

For what it's worth all my very middle class friends smoke a fair bit so I hope the earlier post about lower incomes was firmly tongue in cheek

VeenyCat

I'm Swiss and I've never seen somebody do that. If I was still back home I might think you were exotic as well :D

Well, OP. I don't know.

But I'm curious about your decorative boot. I've never seen something like that. I'll have to google it :)

I would think you are doing the right thing by not smoking indoors. Other than that I wouldn't care. I'm northern and an ex smoker

See, smokers got it in the neck when they smoked indoors in pubs etc. Now they get it in the neck for smoking outdoors. So...what would you rather they did Map? Bearing in mind it's not illegal.

Another vote for common. The decorative ashtray confirms it.

My neighbour does this. In her dressing gown. We have a nice little chat when I walk the dog. She knows EVERYTHING.

I don't smoke and DH only smokes when he's with friends.

I send them to the "smoking chamber", the poor dears.
But thans for the idea. Next time they can stand infront of the house ;)

The decorative boot is less of an issue than smoking on your doorstep. It's a bit like the folk on some of those horrid television programmes about Jaywick where people smoke and drink canned beer on their doorsteps.

I love to see people sitting out on their doorsteps chatting, takes me back to my childhood. Occasionally we all have a chat standing here in the middle of the cul de sac, but it's not the same.

It's outside Map! It's going to have zero effect on anyone walking by.

Honestly? Yes. My children would think you were practically the devil. Me, notsomuch.... but I'd wonder why you were still at it!?