Suppose you're in class, and the guy next to you lights up a cigar... - by Aja
Printer's Devil on 7/4/2006 at 04:46
The true Canadian response would be to extinguish the offending cigar by expelling urine onto the burning tobacco. Offensive and safe, although a bit unsanitary.
Jennie&Tim on 7/4/2006 at 04:49
Even in America the most likely response is an admonition to put the cigar out. Now, I could see a bunch of clowns telling the prof they'd threaten to sue...
jtr7 on 7/4/2006 at 05:07
I've known more fellow Americans that would initially say "I'd sue him" as a joke, followed by a genuine response, than Americans that would honestly mean it. So--if the joking nature of the first response was ignored--many Americans first response would likely be as he claimed. Did the professor make his claim before he got the response from the class, or after? Were the responses given verbally or written?
By the way, I would change seats and the expression on my face would speak for me.:nono:
Kyloe on 7/4/2006 at 06:08
Quote Posted by Phydeaux
My response would be something like "What the fuck are you doing?!?", and then tell (not ask) him to put it out.
You must be German, then. :)
Actually, last week a chap was lighting up in the back of a double decker and my response was to tell him to put it out. He lit it again as soon as I turn my back on him, so I called him a fucking asshole when I stepped off the bus.
Renegen on 7/4/2006 at 06:21
I would make him feel guilty, then silently judge him. No?
Depending on the mood, but the right way is probably the strong stance.
thefonz on 7/4/2006 at 06:24
You are all infact wrong.
The correct answer is:
Steal his cigar, beat the shit out of him then steal his girlfriend and car.
Naartjie on 7/4/2006 at 10:53
Quote:
Originally posted by KyloeActually, last week a chap was lighting up in the back of a double decker and my response was to tell him to put it out. He lit it again as soon as I turn my back on him, so I called him a fucking asshole when I stepped off the bus.
I'll remember that one when I head off to Bonn for my two semester exchange next year :D
Dia on 7/4/2006 at 13:36
I would ask him sternly, but politely to please put the cigar out. If he didn't, then I would warn him that he's creating a fire hazard, get a fire extinguisher and spray him with the contents; if he still hadn't put the damn thing out after that, I'd bonk him over the head with the fire extinguisher.
Then he'd sue me.
Carini on 7/4/2006 at 13:51
This just happened to me and my friends last week, albeit was cigarettes and not a cigar but you get the idea. We were in a restaurant where the smoking section is the same room as the non smoking :weird: so when people light up if you're in the nonsmoking section but too close to those 3 tables people can smoke at you're going to be inhaling smoke.
Well wouldn't you know it we sat down right next to those 3 tables. At first it wasn't bad because no one was sitting in the smoking section. Right before our food arrived a family of 3 (Mom her son and what looked like his wife) all sat down right behind us and sparked up a cigarette. Each of them. As soon as they started smoking our food arrived. Did we sue? Quite the contrary, we just told the waitress that we were moving and we moved several tables away and we sat eating our breakfast burritos wondering what the smokers were saying about us.
Sap'em on 7/4/2006 at 14:31
I like Dia's idea only in a variation. Excuse yourself for a bathroom break and pull the fire alarm in the hallway when no one is looking. Calmly exit the building. This way everyone gets a smoke break!:cheeky:
