Date: 2012-02-15
I was driving on Route 219 going toward Hamburg the other day when I passed a vehicle containing a mom and dad with their two children in the back seat. The mother was smoking.If you are reading this, you know who you are and yes, I’m calling you out. The little boy, who couldn’t have been more than 5 years old, was sporting a Burger King crown and was happily waving to the cars passing by him, blissfully unaware of the toxic smoke he was breathing in. Smoke that science has proven is deadly. Smoke his mother needed to inhale so badly that she would risk her children’s health to do so.And then, as if to defy even the environment, the smoker flung her still-burning cigarette butt out the window and it landed on my car. I admit it: I honked at her to let her know that I didn’t appreciate her throwing her bad habit at me.I know we all do things we aren’t proud of. I won’t even try to pretend I don’t have any bad habits. But no one would bite their nails and spit them at people or pick their...
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