If most of the sublets in New York have a rule of “no smoking”, I wonder where do all the people that bum cigarettes live? Surely they do not pay full rent as they cannot afford buying cigarettes. Or do they save all the cigarettes money for the rent?
When I worked in Midtown on 7th Avenue, on a regular day at least 2 people would bum cigarettes from me. Some days maybe even 4 or 5. Most of them were fairly decent people and they looked like people that had a home. I don’t think they were tourists. You can see tourists right away. They are loud, in awe at every step, walking with a map in hand, wearing “I love NY” t-shirts or hurrying in the 7th Ave boutiques to buy said t-shirts for 20$ while they could find them two avenues down for half the price. So no, people who would bum cigarettes aren’t tourists. They are fully fledged New Yorkers that know that they could bum a cigarette, succeed in most of the cases and perhaps even have a fairly decent chat while they’re at it.
So I ask again, where do they live? Is there a special little place where smokers live in this city? There must be some secret society, “Cigarette Illuminati” thing because most of the ads on craigslist look like an anti-smoking campaign. You could see for example things like “Please be smoke and drama free!”. That’s why I smoke, damn it, so there will be no drama. Or “smokers and bad credit people needn’t apply”. Yeah, because those two things are so related to each other. Next thing you know, they’ll blame us for the downfall of the economy.
I think I’ll rent a 2br and then sublet. And the ad will say “Non-smokers – don’t even bother. I smoke, deal with it”. I’ll start a new trend. Keep your fingers crossed!
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