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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Ken Adams who wrote (51654)9/28/2006 7:37:32 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot   of 90947
 
Ken, I was working in a hospital trauma center in the mid 1980s. Subsequent to this edict from on high, all of us sinful smokers would congregate at the ambulance entrance en masse--staff and patients alike--puffing away and flicking our ashes into the lone huge and overflowing ashtray. (The ashtray was never emptied because it was always in use by someone and could not be emptied, lest those ashes start a fire.)

One of the hospital admins, a smoker, remarked that it was a darn shame that when the hospital had been remodeled the designers had not thought to include a few balconies here and there.

Be forewarned: In Nevada, most grocery stores have slot machines, and shoppers are permitted to smoke around the slot machines, at least for now. It's one of many long-standing customs the nannyists are trying to have eliminated, and it's to be on the November ballot. - Holly
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