Baby, it's cold outside 13/90

[PastTense]

Freezing rain and wind today.  Just looking out the window makes me shiver.

I think about the combined hours I spent crouched in the corner of the garage to keep out of the wind while I smoked as fast as I could so I didn't freeze to death before I gave myself lung cancer.

Crazy behavior.  I mean just nuts.  But there I was.

Better days to come

PT

[sweetplt]

And my dear PastTense You weren’t alone...I did the same...nuts is true...but that was the past, now we are toasty warm...~ Colleen 378 DOF 

[prissdoll]

Yes, it does make me feel better today not doing the insane bundle all up and go outside in deplorable weather to feed  that incessant addiction..many times in one day...absolute insanity.  I am feeling grateful not to have to do that tonight.

[YoungAtHeart]

When I was still working, the college campus decided, I think, to discourage smokers the best they knew how.....so they made one smoking area in the center of campus- unsheltered, in a wind tunnel.  Absolutely brutal in the winter, and when it was raining, or freezing raining, or snowing, and ALWAYS windy, it was truly awful.    And in the summer, blazing sun beat down and not a spot of shade - and definitely nowhere to sit.  But did it stop me? NOPE!  The addiction demanded to be fed.

So happy none of us are doing that anymore!

Ah - FREEDOM!

[Mandolinrain]

Me 2  but we don't do that anymore thanks goodness  Heck I remember going out ( in horrible weather on back country roads) to buy smokes just to make sure I had them for my morning coffee. Insanity, is what it was!

[meWisconsin]

We would go out in any weather to buy smokes or to just lite one up. If we were non smokers and someone offered us money to do those things we would say "no thanks you must be nuts." Addiction is powerful.

Terry

[PastTense]

The things we do for addiction.

It scares me.

[YoungAtHeart]

DID

We don't DO that anymore!!!

[Christine13]

I remember walking half an hour to get smokes from the gas station in a winter snowstorm, such was the desperation.

Here in Winnipeg, with -40 F. Standing out on the deck, choking from the bitter cold plus inhaling on a cig.  Ugh.

[elvan]

I quit when I was really, really sick and it was also a Polar Vortex, there was no way I could go outside for more than a minute even bundled up.  The school where I was working did the same thing YoungAtHeart‌ and I actually THANKED the dean for making it so incredibly inconvenient.

Ellen

[YoungAtHeart]

Not ME!  I would have probably walked across red hot coals to get a smoke during the time I was still working!  Insane, I now realize!

[elvan]

[Dani2154]

Just this morning I stood outside in the cold smoking the last cigarette of my pack...glad I'm out. But the sun came out so maybe now I will take a walk!