The Problem with................

Smokers

The thing is... I have some sympathy for the pariahs that smokers have become, being a former one myself.

But, that was over 20 years ago when I was young and impressionable and trying not to gain weight in college.

DUH...then I discovered runnning to replace skating and all was good.

But Carrie's post about offensive smells on her blog (see link to the left) brought back memories of Christmas office parties gone by.

I have been around so long that I am in the hallowed core of employees who remember when those parties revolved around unlimited drinks, an after party and an after-after party and the HIGHLIGHT of the party...........................

SKITS!

We actually had a skit once (I was not the mastermind) that parodied all non smokers bolting from the elevator when the smokers got on the elevator after a "break"

That added with a seque of the "heavy perfume users" getting on the elevator, dousing themselves with the contents of their atomizers as they rode up and down was pure comic genius.

Needless to say everyone thought it was hysterical, well except for the smokers. The heavy perfume users never got the joke cause they were clueless.

Come to think of it that was the end of skits as we knew them. Now it's a talent show and if you get booed it's your own damn fault for getting up on stage in the first place.

But the thing is....I miss those skits...funny stuff!