A few days ago I was rolling through Arkansas and heard a driver bitching on the CB about a particular small truckstop near the Texas state line. Arkansas is one of those states that has banned smoking everywhere except in places where those under the age of 18 are not permitted.
This particular small truckstop opted to be a smoking establishment and simply ban any minors from entering. They are trying to cater to their main business, truckers, the majority of whom do smoke.
This crybaby was whining because he stopped in there and they didn't have a nonsmoking section. He was pissing and moaning about how unfair it was and that he should get a bunch of nonsmokers to picket the place and shut it down.
Ok, I went off on him a bit. There is 1 damn truckstop in the entire state that even allows smoking at all, and he wants to piss his pants over it. He could have easily just gone to the one across the street to have his dinner, but then he wouldn't have had anything to cry about. I was pretty pissed and let him know what I thought of it, him, and the whole crybaby lot of them that think that they somehow have the right to force their choices on others. I told him now he knows exactly how smokers feel when they go into a place that doesn't have an area where they can smoke.
One single truckstop in an entire state and somehow he feels that he has the right to cry about how unfair it is? I think it's pretty damned unfair that businesses don't have a place for us smokers but I don't threaten to try and have them shut down. I simply don't spend any money there.
Those of us who smoke know that it bothers those who don't and most of us believe that the smoking area should be isolated from the nonsmoking so that our smoke doesn't bother them. We don't have a problem with that. The nonsmoking crybabies however, can't settle for having a good system that isolated smoking and nonsmoking. They want it completely their way and just force people to not smoke at all. Fascists, plain and simple. No compromise is good enough for these whiny assed cretins.
You know, I used to make every effort to be a polite smoker, but these days I have had it with these assholes and don't even try any more. If a nonsmoker comes into an area where I am allowed to smoke that's just tough shit for them.
I can't wait for the inevitable anti-PC backlash that will bury these fascist crybabies under a pile of their own shit. Every pendulum swings both ways and a growing number of people are already getting fed up with the PC bullshit.