Ugh! - Stop stinking up my air!

[spyrosmom]

So, DS spent the night at my dad's house last night. Thanks dad!

Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, but now my kid and me and my car stink!

My dad is a chain cigar smoker (and dammit, he knows better 3 heart attacks and diabetic - but that's another long rant) He had quit at one time, but met his current wife who is a cigarette smoker and started again.

My dad's house stinks like nasty smoke. My kid now stinks like nasty smoke (currently in the shower) his clothes from last night and today (he was dressed all of an hour before I picked up him) reek like nasty smoke, the over night bag stanks like an old ashtray, I smell from standing there talking to my dad for 20 mins, and my car freakin' reeks from having the smelly (not his fault) kid and the overnight bag in for the hour trip back home!

I drove home with the windows open and the A/C off (its freakin' hotter than hell too) to air out the stench and b/c I couldn't breathe. My car is currently in the driveway with all the windows open, and doused in Febreeze.

It's amazing how that stench gets into everything. They've been wanting to keep him overnight for a while, and we've been avoiding it for just this reason. I don't want DS sucking in all that smoke, either. Ew!!!!!! My dad also has a couple dogs and is dog-sitting my brother's dog while he is in Afghanistan. Not good for the pets, either. Not like I can tell him not to smoke in his own house. But you would think common sense says if there is a kid in the house not to be smoking like a chimney. Yick

Funny thing is, when I was growing up my dad was a cigarette smoker, and it never bothered me, it was "dad's smell" comforting in a way. I remember sitting on his lap with him smoking away. I'm surprised neither me or my siblings picked up the habit. But since I'm not around it on a regular basis, the stench of anyone smoking is just nauseating.

Yick!!!! And now I have laundry to do. Gotta get the smell out.

Nan

 

[lrusso]

I can relate, my Dad used to smoke cigars. I tried forever to get him to stop. For his sake and my mom who had to breathe it in all the time. It wasn't until he found his best friend /neighbor dead in his yard (also a cigar smoker) from a heart attack, that he quit cold turkey. Now I can breathe when I go their house. Linda

 

[syzygy314]

We grew up with Mom and Dad smoking as well and none of us took it up. Later, when we were older, they both quit. What was so bad, was that my mother is an asthmatic and so is my brother. I developed it in the last few years, but I've always had allergies. Go figure. If you're raised around it, you develop a tolerance to it, plus you're surrounded by the smoke all the time so you become desensitized. Once you're away from it, that's when it becomes unbearable! I can't stand to even be around one person with a cigarette anymore! I can tolerate the occasional cigar, but not for very long.

I feel for you!

 

[cindi1]

I grew up with a smoking dad. LOVE him but hate the habit. He now has emphysema but finally quit a few years ago (he's 68). He smoked all the time in the house when we were growing up but when we had children - he alway took his smoking outside when we came to visit. Maybe your dad could do the same?

I always feel a little sad when I encounter a child who smells like smoke.

 

[trixie108]

Yuck!! My grandpa was a cigar smoker for years, but once he had grandkids, my parents said either quit, or the kids won't stay at your house. He quit cold turkey and never went back

Oh and my mom cleans for this guy who smokes pipes, and his place stinks, even when he hasn't been smoking for a while. It must have permeated all of his furniture!

 

[Fitnessfreakk366]

Same here, both my parents smoked but me nor my brother took up the habit. I hated it. We'd be in a car and they'd have to damn windows closed when it was cold out. Hello? Can't breathe... My brother and I both have a tendancy to have bronchitis at least once a year and I blame their cigarette smoking.

I also hate the smell, it is the most disgusting smell of all.

My dad passed away and my mom quit just recently. I just hope she's not lying about it.

 

[NY25]

I wouldn't let my kids stay over if there was smoking. Period. No discussion necessary. It's a well-established fact that second-hand smoke causes all kinds of problems, not the least being cancer. I would simply tell him - "you have two choices: cigars or your grandkids. You decide which is more important to you." End of story. But that's me.