01-09-2008, 07:48 AM
As I came out of the bank today and was dropping into the car I noticed a man and young girl getting into the truck next to me. She was maybe 8-10 years old. Before he hit his seat belt he had a butt in his mouth.
I was tempted to go over and point out (in case he didn't know) that that cig could cost him a hundred bucks but I thought that would be intrusive and there was little in the way of explanation from a stranger that wouldn't seem condescending.
I remember when I was his age (I was a smoker) and had a kid with me, if someone had the termidity to make me look anything but heroic, I'da had a serious problem with that person.
I'm Gramps now and see it different than I did then and hope the a$$hole gets the first of such tickets issued here in California. Some laws are intrusively stupid, this is not one of them.
I was tempted to go over and point out (in case he didn't know) that that cig could cost him a hundred bucks but I thought that would be intrusive and there was little in the way of explanation from a stranger that wouldn't seem condescending.
I remember when I was his age (I was a smoker) and had a kid with me, if someone had the termidity to make me look anything but heroic, I'da had a serious problem with that person.
I'm Gramps now and see it different than I did then and hope the a$$hole gets the first of such tickets issued here in California. Some laws are intrusively stupid, this is not one of them.