Hi Little Hawk & all, no, still here. I agree that people walk around in their own self-absorbed little bubble, but I couldn't exempt myself from a description like that. I don't really enjoy annoying people whose pleasures may be few, but I try to speak up about exposure to children, etc. But I loved this, the prescription for moments of well-earned impatience:

Ya take the cigarette from him and then say, "Watch the little red light go out!"

It reminds me of my old friend Vera, rest her soul, who spent a lot of time in smokey bars happily smoking. If a particularly annoying guy kept hitting on her she'd just take his cigarette and pop it in his beer. I still can't believe she never got hit.