This happened to me last week, and I am not sure how I should have handled it.
I am pumping gas and a truck pulls up on the other side of the gas pump I am using. The woman is driving, and the man gets out to pump the gas. The woman's window is rolled down and she lights up a cigarette and smokes it there, 3 feet from the gas pump, dumping ashes out the window. I am on the other side of the pump from her, probably 5 or 6 feet away. My kids are in the car and I am standing there pumping gas, smelling the gas fumes, watching her smoke and reading the NO SMOKING signs posted everywhere.
I don't want to tell anyone what they should do, but I also don't want me and my kids to get blown up. Where is the line between respect of others privacy and self-preservation?
What would you have done?
I would have said something.... kindly, but firmly.
ReplyDeleteI think saying something, even if it's just gently pointing out the no smoking signs, is perfectly justified and the right thing to do. That said, I would have chickened out.
ReplyDeleteI would have spoken to the attendants. Hello by the way from a new reader :-)
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