Tuesday, March 22, 2005

I tried!!

But I have failed. Sniff sniff....

Mr. E is a nice boy but very gullible and prone to peer pressure. He is one of these poor guys that is always trying to fit in but never seems to belong anywhere. This might be why he is a big horse racing gambler - it is something he can do by himself.
Anyway, he belongs to Mr. H's project group and there are only three people in the group who dont smoke. One is a girl, the other can not smoke for health reasons and the third is Mr. E. Well I have caught him with a cigarette in his mouth a few times and spared not even a milli second to rip it out of his mouth.
'YOU ARE NOT A SMOKER!!!' And then chastised the idiot in his group who gave him the cigarette.
He has always laughed it off and gotten quite red in the face. The older man Mr. S has patted me on the back a couple of times and given me the thumbs up in approval afterwards. A Japanese person would never be as forward as to rip a cigarette out of someone's mouth.
Well this morning my tactics have failed. I have been away for three months to have a baby and peer pressure has taken hold. This morning I walked into the coffee area and Mr. E was standing there BY HIMSELF with his own pack of cigs and one hanging out of his mouth.
I stared in horror and then shook my head in sadness. He smiled all embarrassed and reached over to put a freshly lit cig out. I told him that we needed to move him to another group. Then his group leaded made the mistake and came around the corner. Mr. H got a wringing out and then Mr. K came with a cig in hand and he got chastised as well.

I tried but failed. Maybe I can counter it. hmmm.

I hate Li's smoking and constantly bitch about it. I refuse to clean his ashtrays and he has to smoke outside. Dont even try to smoke in wind direction of JiXiang when we are outside. His mother actually brings him cigs from China and that just disgusts me, although, she has been with me on the no smoke anywhere near Ji thing.
She brought Li two boxes of cigs from China and they smell different from cigs here and are also stronger. It is a Chinese thing to immediately offer a cig to a person you meet, man or woman, as a sign of politeness. Well Li does that here. At the St. Patrick's Day party he was doing that again. Most of the people there actually dont smoke as they are from England and Canada. Those that do know that Li is always handing out his cigs, so always ask. Well at one point our friend Q comes around the corner and goes,
'LI! Stop handing out your Chinese cigarettes to people!! You are going to kill someone. I just ran into this poor guy in the hall hacking up a lung. When I asked him why he went, I smoked one of Li's cigarette's!'
Li giggled away.
Then California Jeff comes around the corner still a little red in the face from coughing. 'Thanks Li. That damn thing actually made me see stars. Stuff is better than pot. It has been a long time since something I smoked made me feel like that.'
Now I know why I can not get Li to stop bloody smoking.

On a positive note,
JiXiang went 'ello' to me when I got home last night.
Ahhh...
I think I am more happy that her first word is probably going to be an English word and not Chinese.
Oh, and Ji is fascinated by the TV. If she is being all grumpy and figity, just turn on the TV and she stares. It is her equivalent of a mobile. If any grandparent people out there want to buy JiXiang those 'Baby Einstein' videos she would love every minute of them.
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