Thread: OT..... a very odd thing

On Oct 3, 9:58*am, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> The other day I was out running errands on my motorcycle. I was at a
> hardware store and just about to get on my bike when a pickup pulled up
> beside me. *The passenger looked a little odd, but I wasn't really
> paying much attention to him though he seemed to be intrigued by me and
> the bike and, besides, there were reflections from the window and I was
> wearing dark sunglasses.
>
> The driver got out first and I have to say that he was an off looking
> character, and the cigarette hanging out of his mouth didn't do much to
> enhance the image. Then the passenger got out. *Part of the reason that
> he had looked odd was that he had an oxygen line to his nose, and he was
> carrying the portable oxygen tank.
>
> That left me wondering.... what the hell was the driver doing smoking in
> the cab of a pickup truck when the passenger has a serious enough
> respiratory problem that he has to be sucking on oxygen ??? * And isn't
> it dangerous to smoke around oxygen? *I remember the good old days when
> you used to be able to smoke in hospital rooms...... unless someone in
> the room was on oxygen.

Maybe they have a suicide pact!

On Oct 3, 9:58*am, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> The other day I was out running errands on my motorcycle. I was at a
> hardware store and just about to get on my bike when a pickup pulled up
> beside me. *The passenger looked a little odd, but I wasn't really
> paying much attention to him though he seemed to be intrigued by me and
> the bike and, besides, there were reflections from the window and I was
> wearing dark sunglasses.
>
> The driver got out first and I have to say that he was an off looking
> character, and the cigarette hanging out of his mouth didn't do much to
> enhance the image. Then the passenger got out. *Part of the reason that
> he had looked odd was that he had an oxygen line to his nose, and he was
> carrying the portable oxygen tank.
>
> That left me wondering.... what the hell was the driver doing smoking in
> the cab of a pickup truck when the passenger has a serious enough
> respiratory problem that he has to be sucking on oxygen ??? * And isn't
> it dangerous to smoke around oxygen? *I remember the good old days when
> you used to be able to smoke in hospital rooms...... unless someone in
> the room was on oxygen.

this is a long read but explains it pretty well.
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files//pdf/os.oxygen.pdf

On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:57:19 -0400, Dave Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:

>The other day I was out running errands on my motorcycle. I was at a
>hardware store and just about to get on my bike when a pickup pulled up
>beside me. The passenger looked a little odd, but I wasn't really
>paying much attention to him though he seemed to be intrigued by me and
>the bike and, besides, there were reflections from the window and I was
>wearing dark sunglasses.
>
>The driver got out first and I have to say that he was an off looking
>character, and the cigarette hanging out of his mouth didn't do much to
>enhance the image. Then the passenger got out. Part of the reason that
>he had looked odd was that he had an oxygen line to his nose, and he was
>carrying the portable oxygen tank.
>
>That left me wondering.... what the hell was the driver doing smoking in
>the cab of a pickup truck when the passenger has a serious enough
>respiratory problem that he has to be sucking on oxygen ??? And isn't
>it dangerous to smoke around oxygen? I remember the good old days when
>you used to be able to smoke in hospital rooms...... unless someone in
>the room was on oxygen.

Hey, y'all, look what ah kin do!

Boron

On 2012-10-03, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That left me wondering.... what the hell was the driver doing smoking in
> the cab of a pickup truck when the passenger has a serious enough
> respiratory problem that he has to be sucking on oxygen ???

Racing his buddy for the Darwin award?

Reminds me of my neighbor who chain-smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes
all day and plugged in his oxy nosepiece at night.

nb


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notbob wrote:
> Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> That left me wondering.... what the hell was the driver doing smoking in
>> the cab of a pickup truck when the passenger has a serious enough
>> respiratory problem that he has to be sucking on oxygen ???
>
> Reminds me of my neighbor who chain-smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes
> all day and plugged in his oxy nosepiece at night.

Add the can of beer while suffering from cirrosis as well as the
cigarette and oxygen at the same time - I remember one late family
member doing that. I was dumbfounded when I saw him doing that. I
didn't want to be anywhere near him fearing an explosion.

notbob wrote:
>
> Reminds me of my neighbor who chain-smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes
> all day and plugged in his oxy nosepiece at night.

What's unfiltered got to do with it?
The filter only keeps bits of tobacco
out of your mouth -- it doesn't lower
your risk of lung cancer or emphysema.

I'm reminded of a criticism I once read
of reporting a murder with a claw hammer.
Like it would have been a less heinous
crime if it was some other type of hammer.