re: #172 wrenchwench

According to the Boeing engineers who took my bicycle tune-up class, the French were the last to ban cigarettes. Boeing was trying to invent a way to get the smoke out while flying at altitude. Apparently, a very, very small hole can suck a human through itself. I don’t know how they found that out. Probably computer simulations. But one guy didn’t finish the class…

/kidding on that last part

The last smokey public conveyance I rode in was an overnight bus in Turkey.

Riding in Mom’s car.

I used to love the smell of lighting a cigarette, but once the smoke had been through a lung or two, it smelled different. Bad.

That, and washing the windows in her car and seeing brown gunk on the paper towel put me off smoking.