Friday, September 30, 2005

*cough wheeze sputter*

After months and months of bearing with it but somehow still not giving two (or even one) hoots to do anything about it, today somehow i came to the point of realisation that i hate the stuff.

What am i talking about?

Smoke. Cigarette smoke (a.k.a. poison/lung blackener/prolonged suicide stuff), to be exact. Specifically (though it's annoying wherever it is) in nus guys' toilets.

Ok, so i know that, contrary to the signs that would so like you to believe otherwise, nus is NOT a "smoke-free campus". Fair enough, i suppose if i was a smoker i'd hardly want to leave the confines of the school just to get a puff. But really, do you have to use the guys' toilet? Can't you find a more open area, where at least the non-smoking population of campus would be able to have a fighting chance of evading your death mist? What's wrong with the walkway beside LT11, or the dungeon (right next to one of the "smoke-free campus" signs), or the sneaky staircase between the forum and the library?

It's bad enough that i have to hold my nose everytime i enter one in order to avoid getting a whiff of you-know-what. Now i have to deal with smoke odour too? Sorry hor, my nose cannot tahan...

[I sometimes wish that there were smoke detectors like those in airplane lavatories installed in the nus toilets, maybe a little smoke-activated sprinkler too, perhaps.. Or lagi best, a hidden camera that is smoke-activated, filming the culprit holed up inside the cubible so he's caught in the act, and also smoke-activated door locks too that will detain him inside till the campus security comes (you get the picture)]

Actually i think the best thing that they could do would be to introduce smoking rooms like the ones they have in airports. I mean, you have to cut smokers some slack lah, very easy to quit just like that meh? Then at least i won't have anything to complain about...

Now, if these rooms were introduced, and people still smoke in the toilets, then it's time to employ my suggested measures... =)

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