Smoke Rant:
One thing I really dislike about going out with friends here in Romania is that you always come back with your clothes stinking of cigarette smoke. There really is no way to avoid it though, everyone here smokes, and I mean everyone! I’m not familiar with the exact numbers, but 90% wouldn’t be a bad guess! Most bars, pubs, and clubs are very poorly ventillated, exacerbating the situation.
After a night out, you don’t really notice it until you’ve been home for a while. As your body to readjusts to the clean air, you notice a faint smell, but you’re too tired to do anything about it, it’s 4am and all you want to do is crawl into bed (one time the smell on my clothes was just too strong, and I had to get up and throw my clothes onto the balcony for the night). When you get up in the morning you head straight for the shower to get the stink out of your hair. When you’re done with that, don’t even contemplate wearing the clothes you had on yesterday/last-night again, they go straight into the laundry basket… the smell is just too overwhelming.
I’m not a smoker. Many of my friends smoke, it’s not something you can hold against them. I can barely stand the annoyances that being in the presence of smokers brings, why anyone would actually choose to put up with that shit 24/7 is beyond me.
