A collegue recommended a good garage. As the banger is in desperate need of various repairs I popped along to case the joint.
It was the usual open-fronted workshop. The only person I could see was a woman standing smoking beside a van which was up on the lift. I did a double-take and asked, er, are you the boss? No, she says, I'm his daughter, he's out, can I help you?

I said, 'Well, first, why are you smoking in here? It's illegal.'
She replied 'No, I can smoke here, just not in the office.'

I said 'I was going to start bringing my car here on a friend's recommendation but i'm having second thoughts now!'
We had a short, terse discussion about the legalities of smoking in the workplace.

To change the subject, she invited me into the office. As she talked I looked through the window, back into the workshop, and we both saw a mechanic stroll across the place, with a car wheel in one hand and a fag in the other. He saw me watching him and hastily tried to hide the cigarette, a bit too late.

I turned to the woman and shook my head and laughed in her face, then left. How twatty, to not only smoke openly around potential petrol spills - and clients' cars - but to try to bullshit a potential customer, as if I was an idiot. I was furious, and I didn't go back.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 23:20, 11 replies)

ok

(FRIZ my baby died on, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 23:27, closed)

Sorry
but I don't understand who is being put forward as a twat. The boss who smokes in the garage or the self-righteous customer who lectures her about it. Or is this a Star Wars parody?
(ubergeekian, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 23:57, closed)

Those aren't the cigs we're looking for.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 14 Apr 2012, 0:12, closed)

This is...
... the Daily Mail QOTW - AICMFP.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 3:55, closed)

What the fuck does it matter?
So somebody smoked at work, why the hell should you care?
Personally I have more respect for someone who flouts a stupid law than some petty cunt who wants to tell other people what they can and cannot do on their own property.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 16:09, closed)

This ^^^^^
I used to smoke up until about 10 years ago. I couldn't give the tiniest shit if someone is smoking as long as they aren't blowing it in my face. What does it matter if someone is smoking in a garage if you don't work there and they do a good job on your car?
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 16:29, closed)

If I was the lady in the garage...
I'd have told you to take your car elsewhere and mind your own business.

Sure, it's illegal, but... why do you care? I'd much rather go to a good garage who flout the smoking ban than a crap one.

And "around potential petrol spills" is a silly reason. Petrol doesn't just spill, unless they were doing something like dropping a fuel tank, in which case most people would have the sense not to smoke!

Let them do what the hell they want on their own premesis, if they're not hurting you, eh?
(Flap Burger hasn't really got a burger made of flaps, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 4:10, closed)

Petrol
It is nearly impossible to ingnite petrol with a cig.
(fire_exit, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 20:56, closed)

Not true
I nic cage and Bruce willis basically made a career out of it!
(OTT, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 23:16, closed)

I thought
Ghost rider was down to a petrol spill and a fag
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 10:32, closed)

I never managed to do it.
Some mates and I tried it a few times in my youth and we never managed it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 16:35, closed)