aha! i found you!

something funny happened while i was reading my ultracoolbrandnewcookbook

was in orchard so i dropped into mount e hosp to visit my aunt and uncle. proceeded to yummy yummy coffee bean to fill mestomach and read my ultracoolbrandnewcookbook, and HO, dont we meet the funniest people in the hospital. while i was reading, this (obese) lady sat down at a table next to me and started SMOKING. and why did i put that in caps? coz there's a nice, conspicuous, about 7x7cm, pop-up sign in the middle of the table that tells us that we CANNOT SMOKE. i gag, frown, and cough a bit, and coz she doesnt get the message, i tell her "'scuse me, this is a non smoking area" she goes, "oh ok" she goes on to take quite a few deep hurried puffs of her cigarette (and in that time i happened to exchange looks with a lady at the next table who gives me the "umm, she's taking quite a while to put out her cigarette" look) the smoker lady then throws it on the floor and steps on it): ahhh peace, i think.
after 10 mins, she talks to me.
she: um, you dont like smoking, is it?
me: uh i dont like the smell (resisting the urge to tell her of the evils of smoking and how it irks me)
she: oh i see. you know, smoking is very addictive. its like a drug, you know, like heroin, very addictive. drugs are very addictive.
me: ya
she: you know, i'm trying to quit smoking. i'm here to get treated, to stop smoking. i started smoking in the US, when i was 20. now i'm 42. thats 20 years of smoking. (she tells me her life story, can. this is a shortened version)
me: oh
she: you know i went for chinese acupuncture to cure my addiction, and i went for psychiatric medicine too. so eastern and western medicine clashed and so i'm here.
me: mm
she: cannot smoke here ah?
me: yes, this is a non smoking area, and you cant smoke in the hospital
she: ya. but can smoke there you know? (she tells me as if i'm a fellow smoker and she's recommending a place for me to smoke. she points to this bare area with some ventilation pipes and stuff which, incidentally, had a 40x40cm large non smoking sign)
me: are you sure? (hint hint, there's a sign there!)
she: ya can one, theres no one there so i can smoke.
a while after we stopped talking, she went there and started smoking

AH WELL.

oh did you hear? results on fry day.

posted by 2jo @ 7:38 AM