Black Thursday
Originally uploaded by rgcottrell.
I saw this shirt in a store on the way in to work on day and felt compelled to buy it. The pros and cons of the recently enacted smoking ban had been debated at the office and on 43 Things for a while, and this felt like a silly way to commemorate them.
I was going to use this as a prop in some elaborate presentation that I had been imagining in my head. Of course I ultimately realized that I wouldn't be as clever, charming, and witty in person as I pictured myself and with the unexpected change of venue last night I just didn't feel in the mood.
The deadline for the ban has come and gone now. I really don't feel much about the ban as I've never even taken a drag off of a cigarette. Still, I didn't follow through on my plan to take up smoking before our freedoms were taken away in the slow but steady march toward a totalitarian regime and it's too late now. My smoking experiences will have to consist of things might or might not have happened when I was last in Amsterdam.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this shirt now. I didn't get it in my size so I can't even wear it myself.
