zig zag

Jan 15, 2008 14:13

Sometimes all you can do is pray like hell and hold on tight.

zig zag

One of the biggest disappointments in my life recently has been discovering that cigarettes do not bend. When I was little I watched an awful lot of cartoons and characters who smoked were often fated to mishaps that would find them lying on the floor, leaning against a wall, or propped up in a door frame with a forlorn, bemused look on their faces, smoking a stubby cigarette bent into a zig-zag pattern. It’s almost iconic in my head. But when I fall or run into something or am involved in a terrific coincidence of forces my cigarettes just break, and I’m left with half a tube of bitter tobacco that tastes like cold smoke. Nothing is worse than the flavor of a re-burn, so lighting what is left is simply out of the question. On television, even villains get to finish their smoke. I just get a wasted stick of cancer that I want nothing to do with.

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