Sometimes I just can't help myself.

I'm sitting at work yesterday. At the desk next to me, we have a customer booking hotels in Europe. He's insisting we guarantee him non-smoking rooms. The travel agent is telling him that we can put it on request, but that request will be considered upon arrival, and that we cannot guarantee him non-smoking rooms.

He's having a fit - should I take my business elsewhere? She tries to explain that this is the way hotel bookings work. He's making all kinds of noise about he's just going to die if he has to stay in a smoking room, and it's a killer, and why cant' we be more considerate of our clients?

I can't take it anymore. I whip out my cel phone and call up one of my best smoking buddies. I have a brief, rather loud but not too loud, conversation with him about the last cigar event. What we smoked, what we liked, etc.

So as I have this conversation, I hear the customer getting vewy, vewy quiet.......I guess he thought the whole world agreed with him that smoking kills and never suspected there was a cigar smoker sitting RIGHT NEXT TO HIM!!!

Stuck up, knowitall, righteous, hate-spewing nanny staters.......