Capri: The Rule Breaker

On 28 Jul 2008 at 13:22, Jason T wrote: ISTR a few folks smoking in the machine rooms at CDC; what was verboten was soft drinks and coffee on the console. Go ahead, eat a sandwich or a candy bar, but no drinks. Apparently a lot of hassle cleaning out Coke spilled into the keyboards. But smoking? Okay as long as you brought an ashtray. Ah, the bad old days. The guys who shared the cube across the aisle pipe more than the cigars--the guy smoked all of these really sick flavored tobaccos. Periodically when the air got too blue, I'd pull out one the really cheap 25 cent stogies I kept in my desk drawer, light up, and saunter over for a conversation. I'dve stuffed one with rubber bands if that wouldn've worked better. The guy in the cube next to mine was a chain smoker. (Unfiltered Camels) I suspect he's probably dead by now. But no one yelled too much if you smoked in the machine room (I think "officially" you weren't supposed to). Maybe with all that HVAC, it didn't matter all that much. Cheers, Chuck