The Benefits of Smoking
Here is everything the Ministry of Health warns, smoking is harmful, cancer, arteries, impotence. It is so, but there are exceptions. I personally do not smoke.
In the west of Austria there is a wonderful bridge: it stretches over a picturesque canyon, down there is a not very deep mountain river, a rocky bottom. Around the woods, villages, in a word, beauty. The height of the bridge is about 90 meters, length 210 meters.
The bridge is a local attraction. It is a favorite place for tourists, schoolchildren and kindergartens. But because of its outstanding engineering device, the bridge was loved by local... suicides. The result, as you know, is 100%. Below are stones and water.
And since children often walk through the mountainous terrain, in order to protect their delicate souls and nerves from such an appetizing spectacle as the scattered body of the jumping (exhausted brains, blood, broken bones, eroded joints), the local government made a wise decision: to complicate the task for the mortal and to guard the bridge on its sides along its entire length with metal grids. What was done.
I go early in the morning, at 6 a.m., along the bridge and I see: there is no frame with a grid in the very center of the bridge! A 35-year-old girl stands next to me and looks down. We arrived... what to do? You had to tell someone to commit suicide. I personally do not. Immediately remembered the beat phrases from American films: you will still be fine, he will come back to you, you will find another. But at that moment, when I saw her gray face, her worn jacket and her stalled gaze, I didn’t know what to say. I just stopped my car and approached the girl. On the bridge there was a half-empty pack of cigarettes, Zhitan. Snooping and lulling “Good morning” I looked at the candidate for suicide with longing. She’s angry with me, too. Here is “Ostapa понесло”
Girl, can’t you smoke?
She silently leaned and handed me cigarettes.
Will there be a fire? She also quietly stretched out the lighthouse and looked at me in focus.
Furthermore, I wanted to start with the beat American scenario, that said, everything will be a bunch, but... coughed out of habit.
She looked at me, and something in her eyes relaxed.
“You are not a smoker, and I’m not going to jump anywhere. I am an engineer! Yesterday, the swing was thrown. I was asked to inspect the fence. I arrived early before the movement started. But you are not the only one, today the fifth car is stopping, all the cigarettes I smoked, and they cough like!"
I thought there would be more such smokers!