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To refuse lift to smoker because she smells?

332 replies

florapearl · 23/10/2017 13:38

Obviously not as blunt as that but she lights up just before getting in the car and it stinks. So AIBU to tell her to get the bus if she can't wait?

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Purplealienpuke · 24/10/2017 22:54

This will be the exact reason I will never go to a MN meet up! I fear I would offend so many precious people on so many levels 🙄😩

HornyTortoise · 24/10/2017 23:55

Smoking threads are always a good read Grin

As a non-smoker, this wouldn't bother me tbh. But I think I am a strange non-smoker, in that I genuinely do not find the smell of smoke that bad. And the smell of dope, I actually LOVE!

Most bad smells disappear in a little bit of time, stubborner ones with febreeze.

Only smells that actually make me feel ill are sick, shite, kebabs, pizzas/grease and strong perfume (most mens aftershaves included as they tend to smell nice)

All of which I have found to last much much longer than smoke. So even if I did find smoke as unpleasant as so many others seem to find it...other smells linger much longer.

FluffyPineapple · 25/10/2017 01:29

Biscuit Your friend smokes - Big deal! Is she the only person in your life that smokes OP? Are you really this intolerant to those who have different ideals to yourself? You come across as extremely precious tbh!

I have never considered contemplating whether someone smokes or not as to whether I give them a lift or not. What a weird, entitled life you lead...

I don't smoke - never have - but I cannot, ever, remember smelling cigarette smoke in my car days after a smoker has ridden with me. Ok I can smell smoke when they are in my vicinity immediately having smoked. But for posters to say they can smell it days afterwards..... Not my experience...Sorry!

HornyTortoise · 25/10/2017 01:35

I tell a lie actually. The smell of wine makes me feel ill too. Sickly sweet. This may be due to growing up with a mother who..while not an alcoholic, drank way too much wine/wider, and nearly every night. I can smell most alcoholic drinks a mile off. It does DHs head in actually, as even when hes just had one or two pints I can tell as soon as he comes into the same room as me

browneyes77 · 25/10/2017 08:36

Your friend smokes - Big deal! Is she the only person in your life that smokes OP? Are you really this intolerant to those who have different ideals to yourself? You come across as extremely precious tbh!

I have never considered contemplating whether someone smokes or not as to whether I give them a lift or not. What a weird, entitled life you lead...

I don’t think the OP was being specifically judgemental of the fact her friend smokes, she was merely saying she didn’t like it when she lit a fag right before getting into her car.

If someone has just put a ciggie out, they smell of fresh fags and that smell will transfer to your upholstery (just because you can’t smell it doesn’t mean other people can’t, depends on your sense of smell). The same way when you put perfume on and then get dressed the smell of perfume can transfer to your clothes and the clothes can still smell of it after you take them off.

I used to smoke and always tried to be respectful of other people and their homes/property etc and if that meant I had to wait to have a cigarette then I would wait. Maybe it’s because I didn’t start smoking until I was 26 and had hated smoking up until that point so I actively tried to consider non smokers when lighting up (to this day I don’t know why I started smoking, just that it involved a cruise and lots to drink Grin, but glad I quit)

I don’t think she’s being precious by not wanting her car to stink of fags. And if someone has just finished a cigarette her car WILL smell of fags after they’ve been in it.

Why is she expected to be tolerant of her friends wish to smoke, but the friend shouldn’t be tolerant of her wish not to? It works both ways!

Dianag111 · 28/10/2017 20:19

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NewLove · 13/11/2017 12:34

Boyfriend stripped the paper in his longe today - the bottom layer of the paper sandwich absolutely stunk of cigar smoke. Judging by the pattern it was 1970s - yep it lingers...

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