Whenever older folks tell me they want to return to what the U.S. was like I think about the times I had to ask for a non-smoking table only to wait an extra 10 minutes just to sit somewhere where I could still smell the sweet aroma of stale cigarettes like a pound of ash that was fermented with moldy potatoes being stuffed up my nostrils.
Every once in a while I remember that people could smoke on airplanes and trains and I am so thankful that that fucking bullshit is over. My god, that was some awful shit.
Somehow underselling how much it sucked.
Or actually sitting in the smoking section because your folks are smokers. Blech!
That smell gets on everything.
Hope your lungs made it out of there ok. My friends mom died from lung cancer, but the kids are mostly ok so far. Sad part was she was a nurse who smoked like a chimney pretty much right up until death.
After having to stroll through the smoking section none the less
Counter point- I miss being able to smoke in bars
Thank fuck smoking indoors in public spaces has been banned in Brazil since 1997, I can’t stand the smell
All the glass ashtrays are like 10% lead too.
that’s why they are delicious
May as well sprinkle a little lead induced brain damage on top of the lung cancer.
Licking restaurant ashtrays is just what we kids did back then. We didn’t know any better!
I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.
There used to be smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes.
With ashtrays in the arms of the seats at that. You still used to see them for a long time afterwards but they were sealed off.
But they have HEPA filters way back in the tail section!
I served at a restaurant that had this. Not only was the entire dining room a de-facto smoking area, despite the zoning, but it mattered for nothing if your section was smoking or not. Between the constant smell of fry grease and cigarettes, I wanted to burn my uniform after every shift. And since I was depending on a low paying job, guess how often laundry happened? :(
PSA: Tipping culture is a problem, but so are server wages. Please help 'em out; their job is miserable.
Oh the good old days, where the doctor telling my dad to stop smoking while he’s smoking 😅
Reading the headline: Oh bullshit
Seeing the picture: Oh, OK, yes
I would never do you wrong.
Got to camp today and pulled out a thing my wife found. 1980’s ashtray from a San Francisco bar. Had a solid laugh about your post. (I put my .22 rounds in it while I shoot.)
I can smell this picture.
Yeah, we did a lot of stealing back then. Ashtrays, glasses, towels. Steal steal steal.
Cigarettes still suck. I would never talk to strangers but I’m pointing it out to them if I see them throwing cigarette butts.
Stolen ashtrays etc. was almost free marketing distribution.
Hotel ones with hotel ice buckets, too.
And nothing of value was lost.
I remember siting down at fast food restaurants and playing with the little free matchbook sitting in the ashtray.
(Playing meaning reading it and looking at it, I would have been throttled right there if I tried to light one of the matches.)
Nana had a bunch of ash trays from Vegas casinos. They were much classier that these things. And I seriously doubt she ever ate at any of these places in her life.
But those casinos stank just as bad, because stale cigarette smoke out-ranks cheap food
The casino here still allowed smoking long after it was banned everywhere else. You could also smoke at the Royal Canadian Legion after the fish fry was over.
Those casinos still stink. Smoking in casinos in Vegas is still allowed.
Had to walk through the casino to get food at my hotel. My clothes absolutely reeked of stale cigarettes from the couple minutes it took.
Those little tin Burger King ones were peak.
I had some of those, plus the disposable gold foil ones from McDonald’s.
