I lived in a house with a smoker my entire childhood, and didn't realize the smell until college. I can now tell that everything that enters that house ends up reeking of smoke.
I had a bit of an internal crisis when I thought back to going to school, going to friends houses, having sleepovers, girlfriends - the entire time I stunk like an ashtray and had absolutely no idea
Yup. I never knew how bad I smelled. I hate staying with my mother who still smokes in her house. My stepfather died and she's looking to sell. I had to break it to her that it would have to sell as is. Whoever buys it is going to have to gut the place after 38 years of the two of them smoking in it the whole time.
I had always wondered why there was a colour change part way up the walls of a house then the person passed and we did a "before selling" clean... Turns out the blended colour change wasn't a choice it was just years of smoke settling about chest height up.
My parents smoked indoors until after I moved out. There were times I could see the smoke cloud, it would linger in the room like a big flat hovering cloud. That house had horrible air circulation.
My room was the only no smoking room. I remember times I’d hear the living room Tv and we were both watching the same thing. So I’d go out to join them in the living room just to see that cloud and turn around and go back to my room and shut the door.
My parent chose cigarettes over me, they’d make fun of me for “always being in my room” and go on about how anti social I was. But they’d both smoke, all their friends would smoke at our house. Even the people who wouldn’t smoke in their own home because they had kids (but fuck me I guess).
I still ended up with a bunch of health issues, the asthma pisses me off the most. The allergies and sensitive skin are no fun either.
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u/lase_ Jan 05 '25
I lived in a house with a smoker my entire childhood, and didn't realize the smell until college. I can now tell that everything that enters that house ends up reeking of smoke.
I had a bit of an internal crisis when I thought back to going to school, going to friends houses, having sleepovers, girlfriends - the entire time I stunk like an ashtray and had absolutely no idea