My new pet peeve.

I'd been at work less than 20 minutes last night before I almost jumped across the counter to strangle someone.

I sell a few cigarettes to a lot of different kinds of people.  Example:

Old men: Pall Mall or Marlboro soft pack

Old ladies: Virginia Slims or Capri's, both of which come in 100's and 120's

Young Females: Usually Camels, sometimes Marlboro. Either in some form of menthol

Suits and 'working class': Marlboro lights, menthol, or menthol light

Black people, people that want to be black and toothless people: Newports

Young boys buying cigarettes for the first time: Camel silvers or golds

Hicks, fans of NASCAR and really, really old men and ladies: USA 100's in full flavor, light, or menthol

People that have to buy their cigs with loose coins: USA's.  $3.30 a pack!!

That's more or less the trend that I've noticed, with a few exceptions here and there of course.  Anywho, this one fella came in with a lady and she bought him a pack of cigarettes (not that he wasn't old enough, she probably just owed him).  And I can't even remember what the hell they bought because as soon as I set that pack down, that douche fag guy picks them up and starts packing them on the counter as I'm getting change out of my drawer.

He gave it a good 4 or 5 pounds, I gave the look of death out of the corner of my eye, he didn't notice but stopped.

*sigh of relief*    I continue getting change.

Half a second later, that son of a bitch flips the pack around, and starts banging it on the counter again.

I literally throw my hands in the air and yelled, "Can you PLEASE NOT DO THAT!!!"

The lady laughs and says, "Oh! You must not be a smoker!!!"

And I say, with as much politness as I can muster, "I am, that's not the point.  I find that extremely obnoxious and unnecessary."

She returns with, "Oh, well then... you must not pack your cigarettes."

Again, "No, I do.  Just not on a countertop in a place of business because it's very, very  annoying."

I am a smoker.  Not necessarily proud of it, but I enjoy it none-the-less.  I understand that a lot of other people can't tolerate smoking.  When I myself am not smoking, I don't particularly enjoy being around it.  People that can't go 10 minutes without a fag in their mouth annoy me.  Either way, I try to be as polite a smoker as one can be.  I don't smoke around people that don't like it, I stand downwind if possible, I always wash my hands after I smoke (especially at work) and occasionally my face, I am usually chewing gum or drinking water to get the smell of my breathe and I don't pack my cigarettes until I am in my car or in my house because it is annoying as fuck.

This couple assuming that I didn't smoke because the sound of him packing his cigarettes on the countertop in front of my register annoyed me to an extreme is just ignorant.  It doesn't matter if I'm a smoker or not; what you're doing is highly obnoxious to everyone, not just non-smokers.

That incident really irritates me for some reason.  I'm sorry this blog is nothing but one giant complaint about something so trivial.  It just really annoyed me.  Like, WHOA really.

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I found this image to offer visual aid to the way I freaked out at this couple (maybe slightly exaggerated):