Today's good deed?
I try every day to make a good deed. It can be anything from helping someone that looks lost, donating some coins for a good cause, smiling at someone, holding a door for someone. etc. Now during the winter, my primary good deed has been to turn of bikelights that bike-owners have forgotten to turn off when they parked their bikes. I can cross a street to do it, take a detour or whatever, it is a good deed. Usually the owner won't notice it I guess, but it feels good for me, which is the whole point of the thing, along with making someone else feel good too (if they now notice it, that is).
Today, my good deed was a rather far-fetched one. You know many of my annoyments by now, and what goes with me getting annoyed at others, other obviously get annoyed with my behaviour too. Me and my sister crossed a parking lot this afternoon, when we met one of all these smokers you see everywhere. It smelled bad, and I made a purposeful, but also rather drama queen gesture. It was annoying, but I shook it off. Then, within another 10 steps, two young female smokers stood in our way. It all happened spontaneously, and I did no effort to stop it, but just as we passed them, I said "and another two, all these smokers and smoke you have to breathe". Annoying, huh? One of the girls got annoyed at least, and said "yeye, all these smokers" with a stupid voice. I am not sure what her point was. Or well, I know what her point was, but she was not very eloquent and I can easily decide not to let it come through. Something more adequate, a cool snappy comeback, that's the least you can expect right? They should be used to it by now these smokers, getting annoying looks, since that is what they do to their surroundings, annoy. But maybe where the smoke goes in, the wit goes out?
I actually had no idea of the massive impact this increased smoking prohibit (clubs, pubs, cafés) would have on general opinion on smokers, and especially not how much more easily I could justify my annoying comments to annoying smokers. It is rather sad, don't you think? See them there stomping in the cold, wrapped in their jackets, outside the fun club, smoking away. No mittens either, because how would that work? Fire and fabric is not a good combination. I hope smokers will become the society laughing stocks! Seriously.
I am not an evil person, but that comment might seem cruel. But if you scrutinize, they increase my risk for cancer, along with their own crazy risk. If they do get ill, not only their, but also my tax money will pay their expensive chemotherapy treatments, and research on COPD (chronic obstructive lung disorder; 99% caused by smoking) treatment. They annoy with their mere awful stench, not only smelling themselves, but making me smell bad too.
There is no excuse to start smoking, and only very very few exceptions to not quit if you are already stuck in it (e.g. like you are on the verge of dying anyway, and depriving your body of a dependent toxin might just speed the inevitable along). Just don't fucking do it! And especially not in my face. I will annoy you back, in the same way you annoy me. I am tempted as counting "annoying smoky-girls" as my today's good deed. Maybe annoying non-smokers like me annoying them back often enough, will help them realise the stupidity in the habit and quit, thereby I am helping to perhaps saving their lives. Too farfetched? I don't think so.
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