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- From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Sox, Dimes and Launderettes
- Message-ID: <Qoabs*NL0@prolix.apana.org.au>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:16:20 GMT
- References: <18106@autodesk.COM> <1aqas*HJ0@prolix.apana.org.au> <18195@autodesk.COM>
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- In article <18195@autodesk.COM>, Elaine Richards writes:
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- > >Sheesh Elaine, after one month, doesn't the aroma of unclean
-
- > Not really. When I was a jogger, it needed to go more than once
- > a week. Fortunately, at the time, the laundromat was closer and
-
- Washing machines at home are _keen_.
-
- > Another thing I have discovered is that tobacco smoke accounts for
- > a large amount of the nasty smell of dirty laundry. Since people
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- Peeve: smokers. My partner smokes. Diehard fanatic. I don't like
- it. I especially don't like being glared at when other diners at
- a restaurant notice that my partner smokes, and is indeed going
- to light up that killer cigarette just as their table is being
- served dessert.
-
- I used to be of the opinion that smokers should just fuck off
- outta restarants, but now I'm tempered by my partner's problem.
-
- Tonight we went to a Thai restaurant 'on spec' [i.e. without
- booking], and got their to find it almost packed out. When I
- asked for a table for two, the waitperson said, 'If you wouldn't
- mind being placed in the smoking section ...' Needless to say my
- partner was beside herself with glee.
-
- !Peeve: triffic Thai food.
-
- > !Peeve: Fewer people in the area smoke and the restaurants are
- > all becoming non-smoking areas.
-
- In Oz, all public buildings [government owned] are non-smoking
- areas. It has tremendously improved the work environment, and
- many people just gave up, rather than trek down outside to have a
- fag every now and again.
-
- Restaurants are getting more and more 'down' on smokers, which my
- partner finds annoying, and therefore, I have to do, since she
- refuses to go to restaurants that have a non-smoking policy, no
- matter how good their food is.
-
- !Peeve, my fave restaurant [The Jehangir] has super efficient
- smoke sucking air conditioning, and doesn't mind smokers at all.
-
- Dac
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