Mobile Smoke

I used to smoke cigarettes. 
Didn't realize until I quit about 17 years ago, how rude it was to fill the local air up with that nasty stuff. And to force it to be around others who weren't fool enough to imbibe.  Now I recognize that smoking around others is bad. 

Smokers say that it's their own business and yes they know it might kill them but it's their life and they can choose how they want to die.  They say they're not harming anyone but themselves.  Well, who loves you baby.  Who is going to take care of you when you become an invalid, when you slowly start to die in any number of horrible ways.  That's who it's going to hurt the most. 

So, well, that's not the reason for my post.  Get that outta your mind.  Most people who smoke would love to quit but it's very hard I agree. 

We recognize that it is bad for non smokers when smokers smoke and we recognize that they need to be separated so we don't let the smokers smoke in the buildings at work anymore.  We sent them outside where they congregated at the entrance to the building.  They congregated in that area where the non smokers had walk through.  Non smokers complained and the now social undesirables were required to take their smoking even further from the building.  Here at TCC we built them a little bus-stop sort of thing where they could smoke while sitting on a bench out of the weather.  We certainly didn't want our smokers to become sick. 

But then smoking in designated areas also became too bad.  Smoking in one's own car in the parking lot has even been denied by many companies.  The car is still on company property.  Now the smokers are actually kicked off the grounds before they can light up.  I've driven around town and seen the little groups of non-quitters smoking like dirty smelling untouchables all gathered in little bitty areas off the grounds of some company.  Here where I work they gather way over there under a tree.  They're off the grounds.  The people from the establishment next door leave those company grounds but they come to our company grounds to smoke.  Of course it'll be way soon when our security guard has to go out and run them off because people can't smoke here either.

So there you are. 
My retirement income.
There's a need out there and all it takes is the willingness to meet it.

When I retire I'll get me a large van.  Maybe even a bus.  I'll drive around town and find those piles exiles and I'll offer them a haven.  I'll offer them a place where they are welcome.  I'll pick them up and let them find a nice comfy place in the van where they can sit and blow the coughy stuff at themselves and at their neighbors and at the walls while I drive them around and around.  And I'll Charge them by the minute of course.  I could even sell cigs in there. 

I'll need to invest in some kind of mask and oxygen breathing device.  It'll be worth it.  Meeting the needs of the world.  No matter how short their visit to the world will be.