"The Chain Smoking fans of Limp
Bizkit"
Yet another account about the "other people" and how people have such
fronts on being "cool"
We have all seen it, done it... etc. And it's smoking.
Every public place you go, there are always a handfull of teeny boppers sitting
outside smoking... trying to look cool. Or maybe someone tries to be cool and says to you
"Do you have a cigarette?" Those people are mainly the "other people,"
along with some other various unfortunate poseurs.
Is smoking cool? Well, maybe in middle school it was. In middle
school, it was almost as if it was ok in a sense, because you couldn't actually
get ahold of a lot of cigarettes, so you couldn't get addicted.
My mom smokes a lot. I could have easily taken her cigarettes and
distributed them to various people during middle school but I didn't, because even then, I
just thought it was dumb.
What bothers me are the people that are "public smokers" only
smoke in public, when people predominately their same age will be there. And they just do
it to look tough or bad. Why else would you smoke, if not to look cool? It doesn't really
make you feel much different... unless you get addicted and crave it a lot... but that is
not the point.
People always ask me for cigarettes, assuming because I'm a punk. I
don't... and I never really have reguarly, and I don't plan on starting... ever.
A large amount of people that smoke and exploit it are the other
people, people that are gothic, but not really, just listen to Korn, Limp Bizkit, Manson,
you know, stage friendly acts. I don't know how many times one of those people have asked
me if I had a cigarette.
A girl came up to me, you know, wearing a Korn shirt, baggy black pants, has a bookbag
with patches all over it and wrote things such as "Life is Peachy..." and
"Nookie!" on it. She asked me if I had a cigarrette. It was such a cliche. I
didn't, I said "no, I dont smoke." But for a split second, I felt sorry for her
and wished I did have a cigarette to give to her. But just for a split second.
And it's always cute when your 7th grade neighbor asks "Do you
smoke?I wish I did..." or the even more adorable "Hey, dude, got a
smoke/light/cigarette" (depending on the yearning of coolness the teeny bopper has
determines his jargon).
I mean, smoking does make you look tougher, that is true, it isn't
because of smoking, it's a stereotype that has stuck and all that stuff. It doesn't make
you look cool, it makes you look like you're trying to be cool.
I'm not saying don't smoke. Im not saying anything. Im just complaing about teeny boppers
always asking me for cigarettes and exploiting theirselves.
Many of my friends smoke. My mom smokes. I don't. And it's gonna stay
that way.
