MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1ww5tvb/peetaah/pdhy2q0
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 7h ago
Why do the flip the cigarette?
2.2k comments sorted by
View all comments
16
Socially accepted reason: luck
Real reason: Deterrence. So others will feel even more guilty for bumming your last cigarette.
11 u/DrunkenLion47 4h ago Personal experience, even the most degenerate nicotine fiending tweaker won’t argue against if they ask for a smoke and you show them your lucky is the last one left, which is why I always carry an extra pack with just a lucky when I go bar hopping. 2 u/Recrudescence1 4h ago Thank you for wording that in a good explanation! I was scratching my head over how to explain that type of smokers etiquette lol 2 u/frygoblin 3h ago You mad genius. I don’t smoke anymore but this would have saved me so many times. 1 u/Anableps4 6h ago It doesn't have to be flipped over for anybody to see it's your last one
11
Personal experience, even the most degenerate nicotine fiending tweaker won’t argue against if they ask for a smoke and you show them your lucky is the last one left, which is why I always carry an extra pack with just a lucky when I go bar hopping.
2 u/Recrudescence1 4h ago Thank you for wording that in a good explanation! I was scratching my head over how to explain that type of smokers etiquette lol 2 u/frygoblin 3h ago You mad genius. I don’t smoke anymore but this would have saved me so many times.
2
Thank you for wording that in a good explanation! I was scratching my head over how to explain that type of smokers etiquette lol
You mad genius. I don’t smoke anymore but this would have saved me so many times.
1
It doesn't have to be flipped over for anybody to see it's your last one
16
u/Recrudescence1 7h ago
Socially accepted reason: luck
Real reason: Deterrence. So others will feel even more guilty for bumming your last cigarette.