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WinJ:
Three actually Jimbo.  Don't forget the smoking!

WinJ:
By the way, the 'upended table' comment was a joke.  We are in our seventies and one of the smokers was a big, muscly, tattood lad in his twenties.

I think it was your initial 'tough' response that elicited it, as that was the response I had envisaged from him if I had asked politely for him to refrain.

Jimbo:
I usually have a shirt on to hide the huge muscles I have on my chest. They're so huge that 50% of ants can't climb up them if they're having a bad day.

Confronted with a load of low-life at a nearby table it may be simpler to ask to move rather than have a confrontation, I guess. If you asked me, I would probably ask to move, but in the meantime would smile nicely, stub it out, and raise a glass of friendship. Not all smokers are thugs, and not all non-smokers are miserable buggers!

WinJ:
Jimbo

 'obnoxious'. 'low life' - both your terms for smokers, not mine.  You know them personally do you?

You've lost me on the ants and muscles!

lilly:

--- Quote from: WinJ on September 18, 2013, 11:53:47 AM ---Gillywoo

As you say common sense and tolerance should be expected anywhere not just in Greece.  Would you be happy to have your evening meal sitting next to a shirtless smelly person.  I don't think so.

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Why not just enjoy your holiday and try not to concentrate on what the person at the next table is doing, sometimes it is very easy to become fixated on something that it almosts becomes an habit and dare I say a talking point instead of enjoying conversation/time with partners/husbands/wives etc. Greece is Greece and we cannot expect them to change, I am sure they have more important things to think about at the moment!
Personally I hate the smell of TCP which some people of a certain age seem to use has Eau de Parfum, in some of the taverna's this year the smell was overpowering but I accept that people have the right to dab it freely, it is their choice which I accept in fact even the smelly shirtless smelly person also has the right to dine where he/she chooses to do so along with the tattooed man, the scowling person who stares at you throughout the meal, those who like to chew with their mouths open displaying the contents of their meal, there are many off putting things when you think about it but for me personally I try not to think about it as I am having so much fun.

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