Ban smoking at bus stops

A non-smoker waiting for a bus - sometimes as long as

    one-half hour -  must share " personal space " with cigarette

    addicts.  It can be especially TOXIC in a bus shelter on a rainy

    day  . Consider the case of frail and elderly heart attack victims

    or anybody with a lung condition or pregnant women ( here the addicts

    are even poisoning the FUTURE ! ).

               Sometimes I think smoking itself is a character disorder.

    Just an hour ago on the Reservoir Ave. bus  the bus driver suddenly

    asked me , the only passenger : " Mind if I smoke ?  "

              Not being a complete hard ass on this issue, I said

    to him : " If you got to smoke, you got to smoke ". But

    I thought he was undermining his own authority by breaking the

    visible NO SMOKING rule.

                Of course the Reservoir Ave. bus - with its routine

    stops at the state prison , mental institution, homeless shelter -

    can stress out a saintly bus driver.

           Leaving the bus, I told him my brother Mike is a bus driver

    and had his route a while back.

              "  Mike who ? "  he asked . I said  Mike Ruggieri.

          " Oh yea the DEAF  GUY ! "   My brother wears  two

    hearing aids but I prefer to think of him as " THE GUY WITH THREE

    LITTLE GIRLS TO SUPPORT . "

            Smokers are such INSENSITIVE SLOBS - except for all my

    friends and relatives and co-workers who just have a bad habit

    and demand my sympathy.

                BAN SMOKING AT BUS STOPS !