Yes this addiction realy drives people.

Your silly one liners don't amuse anyone but yourself!!

Well at least someone is amused! And I could make the message much shorter if necessary! These AL smokers!


A small story:I usually leave a bowl of fresh water in front of the entrance to our apartment block for our cat.Today there was a cigarette butt in the water. And you think that one should have tolerance for these bloody addicts.



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Good idea. I can go into and out of a bar or restaurant without running a gauntlet of smokers.

Who the hell smokes aluminum?

Tom

AL = arse loch

This is ENGLISH forum, the rules require that you translate!

Tom

Isn't it somewhere in Scotland.

Theres alot of " lochs " in Scotland. Pussycat could better answer that!

How are people (smokers and nonsmokers alike) supposed to know? And does your cat?

Everybody in our apartment knows its for our cat. What do you think-its there for the butts of dirty smokers?
Next time I will leave a bowl of cat food for the smokers if they are hungry. They should not mind. It smells much better than their breath.

And of course my cat knows the water is for him. He uses it regularly!!

FTFY

Actually the assumption is a fair one, it wouldn't be the only instance where a bowl with water is intended as an astray. Instead of throwing the butt on the floor the orderly smoker threw it into the water bowl that may indeed be there for that purpose. Undoubtedly you'd complain about cigarette butt lying around otherwise.

Use a pet food tray instead.

You really think someone from an apartment puts a bowl with water outside for the smokers butts. And the same person has to clean up!!

My cat has bowls - bought from a pet shop. Do you own a pet tray company on the side?

Smokers apparently can't tell the difference between a bin/ashtray or the pavement so they're hardly going to be able to tell the difference between a bowl for a cat to drink out of and whatever else they imagine it to be.

Loads of cafes/restaurants and other places have a bowl of water outside for pets to drink from (without charge, I hasten to add).

Shush, you agreed not to tell anybody.
All of which, I presume, are easily recognisable as pet bowls.

To people who have pets, yes.

To smokers? No idea but would appear not.

Reminds me of my brothers visit in Luzern the other day. We walked past the Europaplatz in front of the KKL. On the Europaplatz is a square sort of bassin/pool. I told my brother that during Wintert one can ice skate on it. Whereupon he replies:"Ok nice, and during Summer it's used as an ashtray?" Unfortunately it really looks like that.

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So being a smoker and having a pet are mutually exclusive?

People get upset when the post(wo)man deposits the packet in the common area or even outside the house because it may get, ahem, "picked up" by someone other than the addressee.

People shake their heads in disbelief when someone parks the unlocked bicycle in public space fully expecting it to not get "used" by someone else, i.e. to not get stolen.

Is your mailbox locked? At all times? Why?

I'll leave it to you to connect the dots. Remembering however it's you who keeps falsely insinuating some on here, including yours truly, think Switzerland is paradise and impossible to improve a big sarcastic grin keeps popping up.

I'm not a smoker but I do have a cat and I have to say that if I saw a bowl of water outside an apartment building a drinking bowl for a cat wouldn't be the first thing that sprung into my mind.
Why on earth would you need to leave water out for a cat anyway? I've often seen bowls of water for dogs put out for dogs but never for cats.

On the other hand I don't think I would assume it was an ashtray either.