NYT Photo Op

On my way out of Detroit Metro the other day, I was finishing a meal at the Fox Sports Bar, one of the two "smoking allowed" establishments in the entire airport when I overheard a guy with a huge camera asking another patron if he could take a few shots of him checking email on his laptop while his cigarette smoldered in the ashtray. The photographer explained that he worked for the New York Times and was shooting images for a story on smoking in airports.

Thinking it would be cool to shoot the shooter, I flipped open my phone and snapped a quick pic.

I was listening to the Hip on my Zen when I realized the photographer was saying something to me. I nervously popped out an earbud and lowered the volume, certain that he was going to chastise me for shooting him shooting his subject when he asked to snap a few shots of me enjoying my last cigarette before I hustled off to catch my flight. Naturally, I obliged him.

If it gets published I'll probably be identified as another weak human with a nasty habit thoughtlessly killing others with my second-hand smoke while millions of alcoholics *ahem* "social drinkers" violently kill innocents on a daily basis with no government or judicial body even considering a public ban on their vice of choice.

Still, if it happens, it'll be cool to see myself in such a renowned publication!

Lest all the drinkers get too upset, I have no problem with booze or those who drink at home but it's unconscionable that society allows nay, promotes and encourages its public sale and consumption.

I'm jus' sayin'...