A quick rant

I am sorry, I know that all of God's critters have a place in the choir but I have HAD IT with smokers. Inconsiderate smokers anyway, but that's a little redundant, my apologies to all of you thoughtful and considerate smokers out there that I have not yet met, or realized I've met. Three cheers for you. (I mean that.) Public smoking never bothered me so much as it did when I was hugely pregnant and now as I lug around an infant. I want to say, "Hello!" to public smokers, "Hello! Impressionable young brains and lungs here!" They dangle their cigarettes inches from Theo's face as he passes in his stroller. They blow their smoke in my general direction when I'm waiting in line.

Maybe these actions are not deliberate but they FEEL deliberate.

And now I am realizing that there are a handful of balcony smokers in our neighborhood. Our air conditioning does not turn on until MAY 7TH and so therefore in order to keep ourselves from suffocating we must open all the windows, but the irony of the not-suffocating measures is that we let in the delicious scent/toxins of cigarette fumes along with the humidity.

Fortunately Theo is still happy as a clam, unaware of the death trap that is cigarette smoke. He's busy enough trying not to choke on his own drool that I don't think he thinks about not choking on the air. But I'm annoyed enough for both of us.

(Thank you, done)