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SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> weell - the straw poll of respondants on here so

> far suggests you are in the majority so by all

> means contact them and have a go at changing the

> situation

>

> As your upstairs however, do have a wave - I'm the

> Fr Ted figure at the back. the views of the Rye

> are lovely from up here... (tu)


Aaah, Fr Ted, now there a smoker...

As the amount of smoke I encounter goes down, so does my tolerance for it. Even though I don't smoke I used to like the smell of cigarette smoke in the pub - it was part of going out and part of the atmosphere. Now I find standing next to someone who reeks of smoke unpleasant.
yeh i have noticed the smoke also and its not just one driver.. i'm pleased other people have noticed it. i've kept meaning to make note of the bus registration number because years ago when i complained about a bus drivers attitude to me this was the main thing they asked me for.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> there WAS a smoker unfortuntately - RIP Dermot

> Morgan (ooh - same initials as Dulwich Mum)


Of course Dermot Morgsn died but as long as I have a DVD collection and the power in my thumbs to operate a remote control then Fr Ted will always exist.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> I'm all for the smoking ban in public places, and

> I get the 63 bus every morning at the start of the

> journey.. but I wouldn't go so far as to call this

> "totally unnacceptable" - a bit of a nose-wrinkle

> at the start of a journey at worst


Smoking in a place of work is illegal. In what sense is the unacceptability of this offence not total.

Report the driver and get him sacked.

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