There are some lessons to be learned from all this...

I was on GC and suddenly I had a craving for a cigarette.

So I searched my pockets and everywhere else, but couldn't find a damn ciggy.

So I went to my father's office which is right next door to look for one, but still couldn't find any.

And I saw the ash tray on his desk, and there was one particular butt that had some smoke left in it.

I hesitated for a second, but the craving got to me, and I carefully picked it up and lighted it.

I took a small puff and...

Yuck... it tastes like the old man's breath.

So I put it back in the ashtray, but for some reason, I didn't put it out, I just... placed it back where I picked it up.

I guess unconciously I didn't want him to notice anything different on his desk.

But the smoke was rising, so I tried to put out the cherry by using my saliva on it, but my saliva was too sticky, and it won't drop.

So I tried to spit it out with a short burst, and...

The burst of air blew all the ash from the ashtray and covered half of my face and half of my father's desk...

The moral of the story :

1. Don't salvage smoked butt from someone else's ashtray.
2. Don't spit into an ashtray which is full of ash.

 

A few things I wanted to say that didn't belong in any other thread or any other section, so I just post it here.

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If you spent 100 minutes on GC, how much of it do you use for reading, and how much of it do you use for writing?

I would say I use 40 minutes on reading and 60 minutes on writing.

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Obviously there are many sections in GC.

The question is, when you post new threads, why do you go to different sections of GC?

Why not just post in one section, say... General.

Why do you post certain threads in General, but other threads in S&P, or RLS, or SLR?

 

So... how did it taste?

 

Then I should visit there more often...