UFR: The High Cost of Smokes

[muckefuck]

As I pass by the local café (really more of a sandwich shop) on my way to work, I see a heavily doled-up woman in a fake fur coat and short skirt standing at the door smoking a cigarette. Eventually, she moves her lower body inside and tilts her upper body back so she can keep smoking. Then she lays her lit cigarette down on the edge of the wooden sill that runs the length of the front window, cherry pointed into the entryway, and goes up to the front counter.

I've seen bums on the CTA extinguish their cigarettes before they get on, hold them, and then relight them when they get off, but I've never seen this manoeuvre before!

Comments

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Some smokers do that around their own homes a lot, often on the kitchen and bathroom sink since you can't actually set the house on fire or anything if the cig burns down to the porcelain. Putting the cigarette on its end, burning ember pointed straight up, is an improvement in that it leaves no scorch marks if it happens to burn down (cigarettes go out by themselves if they burn down to the filter).

Of course at home you do that because you just need your hands for something else at the moment and the ashtray is in the other room; it's not a tobacco-saving trick.

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

Heck, I've seen completely ordinary non-bums save their partial cigarettes on the CTA before - though they did have that "I'm a unmoneyed college student" air about them.