(August 23, 2016 at 1:21 am)Maelstrom Wrote:(August 23, 2016 at 1:18 am)Nymphadora Wrote: I'm 45. It was located in Maryland.
You grew up during a time when smoking was still considered cool. It makes sense, through no fault of your own, that you would follow the cool crowd.
For me though, it was parental and familial influence. I didn't have many friends and was always the kid that was picked on in school. I was by no means "cool". I was that introverted kid who was always the newcomer because my mother kept moving us around all the time. I think it was my way of rebelling and doing something I knew they couldn't control because, I did it when no one was around or I'd leave the house and walk the dog in the woods and have a few cigarettes while we were out.
The only reason I got caught is because right after my mother had left for work, I lit up a cig in the house. I didn't realize that she had come back because she forgot her sweater. When she came in, she smelled it and of course, I was the only one there, so yeah... I got caught red handed. Had I stepped out in the back yard, I probably could have gotten away with it.
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