Surrounded by Smokers
We had a beautiful day here in NC yesterday. Unfortunately, hubby and I
watched the Weather Channel instead of the local weather and thought
that rain storms would be heading in late afternoon. We had a motorcyle
meeting about 3 hours away and ended up driving the car instead of
getting on the bikes!!! The best friggin’ riding day of the year so far
and we were in a stupid car all day! Barely a drop of rain, mostly sun
sun sun!!!
Then we get to the meeting. There were probably about 60 people there
and about 2/3 of them smoked! I sat for 4 hours in a smoke-filled room.
At first, I thought ‘oh boy, this is going to be hard’. Then I made
myself think about what I should be doing to face this. I started to
look around at the smokers, noticing the pinched looks on their faces as
they sucked in the nicotine to relieve their addiction, I started
noticing the coughing, the rasping smokers’ cough! Ewwww, that was me a
few months ago. Well, who am I fooling, that’s still me at times cuz I’m
still clearing out my lungs after 5 months of being quit. But at least
I’m not waking up in the middle of the night anymore coughing up a lung.
I’m not spitting crap into a tissue every morning on my way to work.
OK, back to the meeting. I looked at the ashtrays and remembered that I
used to suck that brown stuff at the end of that filter into my body.
Another Ewwwwww! Well, this all lasted maybe one minute. After that, it
was no problem. Well, except maybe for my eyes burning because of my
recent lasik surgery. But I managed to get through the meeting without
any major thoughts about smoking. It just goes to show you, it can be
done. Face those whispers, deal with it, don’t turn your back on them or
they’ll come back and bite you on your a$$.
Later gators,
- Cat