saieen
January 16, 2009, 2:54am
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I have been offered alchohol, cigarettes from friends, strangers, passerbys and god knows from how many people, many times and when i say ‘i dont drink or smoke’ than this is the response i get “You dont drink or smoke? You are one weird person”
Normally i dont hang around with ppl who smoke or drink… but i ave noticed large number of ppl smoke nd drink including muslims ofcourse in london, which is disgraceful to say the least.
When i was in yr 11, i started smoking because my friend used to smoke, that motivated me nd i tried it and got used to it…but since last year i vowed not to smoke ever again simply because no one in my family smokes and i find this habbit really bad; so i stopped but in colege life its really hard to get away from such things, most of the ppl including gals in my colege smoke or drink i wud say 90%…and the amount of ppl who drink or smoke in my society is anybodys guess really!.
About two weeks ago, i was comin home from somewhere it was midnight 12am…i was in the bus when these 5-8 boyz came and sat next to me (they were in their 20s)…I was alone, one of them looked looked @ me and said " U kewl bruv? i was like wag1, yh am fine… than they all startd talkin to me and came up to the point of offering me alchohol… nd when i said i dont drink, they were surprised nd said u r one weird person! I was like
Seriously in western countries its reali hard to stay without these things simple becoz most of the ppl around u, are totally different than you!
Your views?
you are 1 super friendly person that everyone likes to offer you something. waise bhi when a person is high on something…everything looks nice and friendly.