When living in an apartment building, everything you do impacts the neighbors around you.
What would you do if your neighbor got upset with you for smoking out on your balcony?
That is what the woman in this story experienced, and she ignored him and just kept smoking.
Check it out.
Recently I moved in to a new flat with my friend.
We’ve looked into renting a flat specifically with a balcony, cause we are both smokers.
All cigarettes stink, she is delusional.
To be honest, I’d probably be okay smoking in my room, since I roll my own cigarettes (MacBaren Choice, if anyone’s interested).
They don’t have any horrid smell, but usually landlords (ours including) forbid this, and I don’t wanna risk it.
The flat is on a second flood out of 4, that’s gonna be important (tho I guess just in a way that it’s not the last floor).
For two months everything was good and dandy, but yesterday I’ve had my first encounter with our upstairs neighbor.
I went for a smoke after coming home from work (~ 2 am) and as I’m standing on my balcony and enjoying my last ciggie of the day, I hear someone going “Good evening. Can you not smoke on your balcony?”.
I look above me, a little bit confused and see someone sticking his head out of the window.
“Evening. And why should I not do it?”
The neighbor then started a rant about how the smoke goes up and into his apartment, woke him up, how he’s been patient for a while, but now can’t take it anymore, how he has a right to a healthy life and doesn’t want my filthy habits to impact it, and so on.
That seems reasonable.
He then suggests that I should smoke in a kitchen or go completely outside, cause he doesn’t like the smell.
“So you’re saying I can’t smoke in my apartment on the balcony, because you don’t like it? You mentioned you have a right to a healthy life, don’t I have a right to do with mine whatever I want? I didn’t come to your home and start smoking after all, can’t you just close your window and move on?”
To which he replied “But it’s hot outside! I don’t wanna close my window. ”
Now at this point, I’m not confused anymore, just startled from his sheer audacity.
“So let me get this straight, you don’t like me smoking here, at my place, but you don’t wanna inconvenience yourself by closing the window. Instead, you want me to do something differently, even tho it’s you who has a problem with how things are, that about right?”
“Yes”
So now she is just antagonizing the upstairs neighbor?
“Well okay then,” I replied and lighted another roll-up, ignoring his following threats to pour cold water on me whenever I’m smoking.
Since by the time I finished he was still going on about pouring water, I simply said “Yeah, you do that” and headed inside.
So I guess the question is, am I in the wrong here, or is he just an entitled jerk after all?
AITA?
This woman seems oblivious to the fact that cigarettes smell bad and bother most people.
Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say.
Smokers are oblivious to the smell.
No doubt about it.
Yup, home rolled cigarettes stink too.
This commenter sums it up nicely.
This person says her smoke is blowing into his apartment.
This lady has no idea how bad her smoking stinks.
What a rude person.
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