tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861088604780942446.post1796452112623182780..comments2023-10-11T04:13:00.947-04:00Comments on Remembering Matters: I remember smoking.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861088604780942446.post-54314525035531848402008-02-12T00:12:00.000-05:002008-02-12T00:12:00.000-05:00I used to hire staff on the basis that he (usually...I used to hire staff on the basis that he (usually a he, of course) both smoked and drank. One poor fellow didn't smoke, but he did drink. So, he did OK. We worked for the New York Power Authority in those days. Worked on small hydro plants. So, we would leave our aerie tower at 10 Columbus Circle, now replaced by a modern all glass building, to go down to a bar we called the lower reservoir, to load up on beer, pretzels and smoke! We thought we would never die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861088604780942446.post-81487948479972523312008-02-11T17:18:00.000-05:002008-02-11T17:18:00.000-05:00I'm one of the few people I suppose who've never s...I'm one of the few people I suppose who've never smoked. But I grew up on a tobacco farm, and worked in the filty stuff from spring to fall from 5 in the morning until 8 or later at night. When I went home at night I had to scrub the tar off my hands. No amount of scrubbing would get the yellow stain to go away until it finally wore off, or faded away, weeks after school had started. With that experience with tobacco, there's no way in hell I'd ever inhale smoke from it into my body. Guess I was lucky and didn't know it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861088604780942446.post-5200960460146087132008-02-11T16:50:00.000-05:002008-02-11T16:50:00.000-05:00How much I can relate to this! Everyone smoked, e...How much I can relate to this! Everyone smoked, even doctors. We went to a lot of parties in those days--mine much further back, in the 1950s--and the rooms were filled with a gauzy haze held onto by countless ravelings. Lacking ashtrays at a coctail party, people let their ashes fall on the floor. Smoking was a way of life.<BR/>I enjoy your blog and your writing.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14495506687475693018noreply@blogger.com