Posted by ejb on September 29, 2008, 6:16:46
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Some more old sightings that have stuck with me:
1: A 20-ish woman on a college campus, steps out of an academic building and immediately withdraws a pack of Parliament Lights. She lights up just a few steps away from the building and takes some long, relieving drags. Then she gets on her cell phone and starts talking with the just slightly raspy voice of a young, regular smoker. About halfway through her cigarette, she lets out a single hack, then drags on her cigarette again right away. She's wearing athletic shorts and a T-shirt over her slim body -- perhaps a reminder of the more active life she lived before her cigarettes started to take over.
2: Outside a college library, a young 20-something sits down and lights up a Camel Special Light. She takes a few drags, then starts coughing. A coughing fit ensues for at least 15 or 20 seconds. She finally bends over and spits a ball of phlegm onto the pavement. Just then a guy, probably her boyfriend, comes out to join her for a smoke. She points down to her gooey spit-up on the ground to show it to him and she smiles. Then she takes another drag off the cigarette that's crippling her poor, infected insides.
3: In a college classroom, before the class begins, a 19- or 20-ish woman, a brunette with a buxom, slightly overweight build, tells her friend about how she's been starting to work out. After class, as soon as she steps outside, she lights up a Marlboro Light to rekindle her smoke fix. Does she ever think about how exercise and her smoking habit are competing with one another?
4: A very attractive, slim 21-ish college student sits through an entire class, erupting into occasional short fits of chesty coughs. She occasionally holds a tissue up to her mouth when she coughs. As soon as she gets outside after class, you guessed it, she fires up a Camel Light. She's the girl who's outside before and after class every day, drinking Diet Coke and taking deep drags on a cigarette, exhaling the smoke in a cloud out her mouth and nostrils.
5: A short haired, thin, pale-skinned redhead, probably in her early 20s, is sitting outside a shopping mall when a nicotine-starved man approaches her to ask for the kind donation of a cigarette to get him through the afternoon (that man is me, if you haven't guessed). She kindly hands over a Newport and strikes up a conversation about how she had to buy new pants that morning because, earlier in the day at the mall, she sat on a bench to smoke a cigarette and got wet paint on her clothes. She stands up and turns around to model the tight, plaid pants that form well to her well-shaped ass. The man approves. Then he tells her how grateful he is for the bummed cigarette -- he's gone allday without one and doesn't have any cash to buy a pack. She says she feels so sorry for him and kindly hands over another Newport before the first one is even done. She lights another cigarette immediately after her first one is done and says she's getting her afternoon fix. She says she doesn't smoke that much when she's home -- just a cigarette every half hour or so.
6: At the same mall another time, two women step outside together for a late-afternoon smoke break. They're both probably about 25. One's a redhead, a little heavier set with a bit of a beer belly, smoking a Camel Light. The other's a brunette, slim and attractive, smoking a Marlboro Light. The two talk about work and the weekend. The Marlboro smoker finishes her cigarette first, then immediately takes out another. The Camel smoker says "you're smoking again already." The Marlboro girl says, "I haven't smoked since lunch."
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