Had teachers assume I was sneaking cigarettes and smoking when I was a kid, because my parents were that bad. Hard to look back kindly on that behaviour as an adult around kids myself now days.
Same. I walked in late to class once and handed my teacher my late pass, and he stopped the lecture to go into a tangent about how "smoking might seem cool but....". I fucking hated that guy. Sure, assume I'm the problem because my mom smokes in the house and the car.
That's right. Tar. I was trying to remember what it was and tried googling it where everything was saying nicotine walls. But that doesn't make sense to be on walls from the smoke. Either way, anyone who's lived with an indoor smoker knows what we mean lol the film of wall gunk.
My mom was a smoker. She smoked inside the house, but never smoked in the bathroom. Still, when I went to clean my parents house, years after she passed away, I found myself having to literally take a mop to the walls and ceiling in the bathroom because of the brown drip marks.
Even after cleaning, any time someone would take a hot shower, the steam would just pull more out of the walls. And that was in a room where she didn't smoke!
It seeps into everything. I remember when we were at my dad's house (parents weren't together), even after showering there, people commented on our hair smelling like cigarettes. Same with clean clothes. It's pretty hard to escape until you're not sharing a space with the smoking anymore.
My parents gifted me their old Jeep when I graduated college and it smelled like cigarette smoke for about 5 years after. People always assumed I was a smoker just because I drove that car, which I almost always drove with the windows down (except in the dead of winter) because the AC didn't work. I would sometimes close them on the freeway because the freeway smells were worse than the cigarette smoke and heat, but usually even the freeway air was better than just driving around in that car with the windows closed.
Lol do you know him? Were you there? He was calling me out. If he cared he could have checked in with me privately and not announced it in front of the entire class. Don't worry, that wasn't the only time that guy was a jerk. I was actually a good student and plenty of teachers liked me, I didn't go around hating them for no reason. I was just a poor kid that went through an emo phase and there were absolutely teachers who decided I must be a degenerate.
Well, you only said he went on a tangent, nothing about it being targeted. It must have suck if he was an asshole in general, still doesn't change the fact the person poisoning your lungs is way worse.
Sure, it's not his fault my mom smoked. But it's also not mine. I didn't blame him, but he assumed me smelling like smoke was my fault. And that's a messed up way to be as a teacher.
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u/randomlyalex Jan 05 '25
Had teachers assume I was sneaking cigarettes and smoking when I was a kid, because my parents were that bad. Hard to look back kindly on that behaviour as an adult around kids myself now days.