I am not a Smoker but my Neighbors are, so how?

I got a nose blockage & writing block but somehow the smoke clear it.

sure or not?

Anyway, I wrote another 500 words short story. Here my Story for the Sunday soul

I am not a Smoker but my Neighbors are, so how?

As far as I am concern, my current 3 room apartment is a perfect fit for me since downgraded from my 5 room apartment.

From a Corporate Regional TQM & HSE Manager to becoming a Qualipreneur and freelancer who works from home; I saw this apartment in early 2017 that I instantly fell in love with it! There is this small utility room as an additional third room which I have converted it into my SOHO.

I love nestling in my small creation of a home office without installing an air-condition unit because I enjoy the fresh air from my open windows. To my disappointment, I realised that my downstairs neighbor is a smoker!

In my personal perspective, Smoking is a really a waste of money. With a lighted cigarette at one end and on the other end is a fool inhaling all the nicotine that does not have any benefit to his/her health.

I don't mean to judge anyone who smokes but do mean it when I said that I can’t work in a skunky haze of smoke flowing into my small SOHO, even though the smoker has a legit need for a smoke.

It’s not just about the cigarette smoke but more about the manner being a 2nd hand smoker trying to live in harmoniously within a small city country where 90 percent of us dwell in pigeon holes in the sky.

I used to be a smoker at an early age of 14. I would like to thank Buddha's teachings that I quitted the habit at 44 year of age after 30 years of foolishness. Having been a smoker before, I do understand and appreciate someone else’s smoking habits. However, I will be more appreciative if they can go downstairs to light-up their cigarettes in an open space. Hence, benefiting his/her family or neighbors' health!

My next most challenging home improvement project is getting my neighbor's smoke out of my home. It is a wicked problem that cannot be solved unless the government ban cigarettes like the banning chewing gum!

Please don’t tell me what to do.

Don’t suggest getting an air purifier to battle smoke.

Don’t tell me to Google for my solutions.

Don’t advise me in confronting my neighbors in person as telling my neighbors that I feel aggrieved will have unhappy endings. So, why should I risk that fighting with a pig? Both will end up getting dirty and pigs love it!

What I did to sort of minimise the problem is by installing a wall fan facing outward. This way, it would blow the air outwards from my SOHO thus blowing the smoke out. The result is quite impressive though still catch an occasional noxious whiff. At least, I no longer feel like I am smoking the stuff myself.

My last fighting spirit is to play with karma. Live life as it is as there are many other existing toxics out there more hazardous than cigarettes smoke.

So what next? I bought a box of 3-ply face mask. Whenever I smell whiff of smoke flowing upwards, I don on my mask and hope my neighbors will moved out soon or stops smoking!

I did it again! Another 500 word short stories.

Thank for reading

I write for myself & safe keep for my grandchildren, but if the story helps you share it around.

As always, thank you for reading my short stories.

Sunday

September 02, 2oi8