Millicent's Monotonous Marathon Post -- Dear John

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Fri, May 15 2026, 5:02:13 2026MT-6 [ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 13:55:19 05/05/06 Fri
Author: Mark A.
Author Host/IP: 67.130.119.210
Subject: Millicent's Monotonous Marathon Post

Oldie seems to be making fewer posts and making them longer these days. Sorry guys, I couldn't make it through this one without speed reading.

Author:
Millicent
[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date Posted: 09:00:25 05/05/06 Fri
In reply to: BobF333 's message, "Tell us about your smoking friday" on 06:56:31 05/05/06 Fri

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello to good friend Joe Camel and all. Sorry your college team is out of the playoffs Ted. Good luck to Susan's son's team. Good luck following games and not smoking Megan.
Don't come to our breakfast if your don't want to smoke. Sheila, Evelyn's big sister, came to work Monday. It was Sheila who gave Evelyn her first cigarette at the age of 10. Sheila was 14. Evelyn got hooked. When the "innocent" Sheila went off to college, she gave up her occasional smoking.
She smoke from her own previously-opened pack yesterday. She said most of her cigarettes in recent years came when she was too drunk to remember.
Sheila said when she tried to sneak out and smoke the night before, her oldest daughter, 15, caught her and announced to the family that "mama was smoking."
Sheila said her child found that dad liked her smoking. I had to wonder if he had the Happy Pants. Sheila said she offered her oldest daughter a cigarette and she declined. The next, a daughter of 12, said she would take a cigarette. Sheila told her she was too young. The 12-year-old said didn't Evelyn start smoking at 10? Sheila just said what happened 22 years ago, does not apply now.
Her oldest said she could not imagine how a 10-year-old could even "score" a cigarette. Sheila changed the subject.
At the breakfast, Evelyn appeared slightly embarrassed when she heard about the conversation. Sheila was smoking VS lights, the 100s. Evelyn smokes about 30 Newports a day.
Claudia, the executive secretary, who last week, said she took the final step on smoking by telling her husband now smokes on the breaks with us..
Toni, who is 31, took one of Claudia's Marlboro Lights after our T.G.I.T. breakfast yesterday. She came last week and had a lone cigarette. It seemed she was just working up nerve. She told of smoking in her pre-teens and then never smoking in her teens. She said she went shopping and a movie with a friend when she was 10. Each smoked a pack. She said she quit smoking before she was 13 and then had a few in her 20s. She said she never bought but has smoked more than a pack since turning 30.
Toni told of starting smoking at 12 but when we discussed Evelyn starting at 10, she said she was often able to slip in 5 a day before she turned 11.
Anita, almost my age, who says she never smoked and the women in her family never smoked just observed.
Marci, who took them up at 18 after working here, offered Anita one. She had 4 at the breakfast. Diane, a long-time smoker but only 19, last week predicted that "pretty soon you will be known as Anita a cigarette, smoked also four just at the breakfast.
Blanche, 39, who just before marriage gave up the smoking habit she picked up in callege, said her future husband told her his mother had quit smoking and hates it so he asked her to quit. Blanche had not told her parents or his of the smoking.
A couple of years later, Blanche was pregnant and her mother-in-law came over and said she has returned to smoking. She said at the time the idea of a cigarette sickened her. She never went back although her mother-in-law never quit again.
After breakfast she had one and said she might just smoke one with her mother-in-law and see what her husband says. She said she would not smoke regularly because she has to hide smoking from her children which would be harder to do than hiding it from her kids.
If she hangs with us, she can take smoking to the office. Then she can show her husband and see if he gets the Happy Pants.
Our resident cigar smoker, who is 23, settled for a cigarette. She had a pack of Marlboro Medium with her.
The 36-year-old lady who had been quit for 4 years after stopping for her third pregnancy had her own pack of Virginia Slims menthol.
This 55-year-old lady who sometimes bums and sometimes brings packs of her old brand, More Menthol is on a quit streak again. She said she was in her 20s when More came out and she smoked her way into the habit. She is only starting to quit after about 30 years of smoking.
She said More Red excited her husband but when she got into More Menthol, she got addicted.
I sure hope our breakfast place or the suburban town when it is located never bans smoking.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]