[darkpuppet]

cut to wednesday night last week. Mom's in town, I'm heading home from work.. take the elevator upstairs and walk into my appartment.

This is when I hear the fire alarm make an initial click that it's about to go off full bore.

My mom is leaning out the window, "it's real! there's a real fire!!!!".. um, shoot.. ok... grab the baseball tickets and head out.

Sure enough a balcony on the second floor is engulfed in flames... So my mom and I go to the baseball game while the building is evacuated.

Anyhoo.. find out today that the fire, the one that destroyed someone else's appartment was caused by a lit cigarrette that someone threw over the edge of their balcony.

Now, it pisses me off that my balcony tends to be littered with cigarrette butts and other people's pigeon crap (I have a net that keeps pigeons out)... but the fact that some asshole who thinks the world is his ashtray actually destroyed someone else's appartment... and that really irks me.

Why is it so bad to litter other stuff, but it's fine to throw lit cigarrettes from cars, balconies and other public places? A lot of times they complain about how it's their right to smoke and do whatever they want with their bodies, but all too-often they're the ones throwing their garbage on the ground and burning down other people's appartments....

just pisses me off.

I know a lot of people who are actually quite considerate smokers, but there are far too many ignorant asswipes...