The Pink Shoe Diaries

while at The Good Life tonight, sharing pizza and chocolate martinis..megs and i discussed the various ills associated with the smoking ban in boston. now listen all you clean-lungs... i admit that it's nice to not be surrounded by a smoky haze and i understand your gripes about second hand smoke..but you must admit that this ban unfairly punishes girls. how, you may ask?

exhibit one: if you are out with a girlfriend and one of you wants to smizz, you must seperate so one can go outside and tar-it-up while one stays inside and watches the bags/coats/drinks..thus leaving both of you open for attack from sketchy men. now, the girl who is stuck inside guaring the goods cant very well get up from the table to evade the sketchiness emanating from the man who has taken it upon himself to join her.

exhibit two: likewise, the girl who has gone outside to smizz must put up with random smizzers of the male persuasion who insist on dragging her into drunken conversations about absolutely nothing, until she has not choice but to throw out a half-smizzed smoke and thus waste money.

wheras men are not faced with this problem at all. girls are inherently less sketchy than guys (sorry fellas) and thus a guy would be PSYCHED if either of these scenarios occured with him on the recieveing end.

so my challenge to you, city of boston, is why don't you ban sketchy men as well as smoking? do us all a favor.