I have a high dry cleaning bill in theory. I haven’t actually gotten my clothes dry cleaned because it is expensive but i would like to send my clothes to the cleaners every day. I’ll tell you why.
BECAUSE EVERY PERSON SMOKES IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY IN THIS COUNTRY. and it drives me up the wall because you can’t escape the smell and it sinks into my clothes, it sinks into my pores and i can’t get the stink out!!!!
Anytime I pass a subway entrance, I pass a group of smokers lingering around the smoking square. Every restaurant, cafe is divided up into the non-smoking and smoking areas, but really, isn’t the whole restaurant a smoking area when its one small space that has an invisible tape drawn across the middle?
Of course, when you sell a pack (or is it a box?) of cigarettes in vending machines for 300Yen (that’s about $3!!!) , people are bound to smoke.
I end up airing out my jacket, my bag, my sweaters out on my balcony every night. Well, I don’t remember most nights to do this so in theory, I would like to do this every night.
Aww! That’s not good! I sympathize. I hate the smell of cigarettes too! And, that smell is so hard to get rid of! It really does just soak into every fiber of your clothes! When I returned from Japan last month, my clothes smelled pretty bad — as if they had bathed in smoky bars for the duration of the trip. Took a bit of cleaning to remove the stench. You do tend to get a little accustomed to the smell, however. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad though.
Cigarette’s in the US are 9.25…wow…