A is for Acton, Ainslie, Amaroo and Aranda

The thing that amazes me about the 2 main entrances into the hospital you go there and all you see are people in robes pyjamas wheelchairs or beds out puffing away.
If your sick why the hell would you want to go OUT for a smoke ??

If your in hospital and all you can think about is going OUT for a smoke you had better get used to being in hospital

The A.C.T government is so strict on the parking at TCH pity they don’t crack down on the smokers standing 2 meters from the door of a health care facility!!!

Well, I figure “Canberra Hospital, The”, gets it there quicker 😉

I called the ‘Today’ page of The Canberra Times – they might have something about it tomorrow…

BTW el (and others): I’ve nothing against smokers – just people that can’t follow simple rules that are there for EVEREYONE’S benefit. It just seems some smokers are so damned lazy, they can’t walk the 50m to the “designated smoking area”. But I guess if they have f#$%@ed their lungs up that bad, it might be difficult to summon enough strength to simply walk 50m, eh!?!

Sorry for the typo, I had a lit smoke hanging out my mouth when I hit ‘Say It!’.

Ahem…appropriate, even.

Why would that belong in the ‘C’ category?

Perhaps in ‘W’ would be more appropritate?

When it is time for ‘C’, can someone go down to Canberra Hospital A&E and photograph the pattootee-breath smokers who stand within arms reach of the “No Smoking” signs.

I had occasion to go to TCH over the last 40+ hrs with a sick baby, and parading her past the line-up of smokers was not the most pleasant experience. After last visit this afternoon, I stopped to get a cola beverage and a big, fat nurse of indeterminate gender (I wasn’t lookin’ and it wasn’t obvious) walked out, stood within hand reach of a sign and pulled out a lighter. I said to them “You’re not going to light up right in front of the “No Smoking” Sign are You?” Which was ignored. So I pulled out my phone to take a photo (I was planning to post here or send to out to our ‘friends’ at ‘The Times’), but this suprising moved them on…

Are all smokers this inconsiderate??? Surely if they feel the need to light up – you could take ’em a bit further from the entrance and avoid the bum breath / 2nd hand smoke interrupting my personal utopia? I think maybe next time I shall just piss next to one of them… and remind them that there is no sign for THAT action…

BTW – I have yet to see a smoker using the ‘designated smoking area’.

Local shops do well around Dickson precisely because Dickson is so busy – and such a hole.

Aranda shops look like my local at Page. I guess that’s the fate when you are competing so closely with Belconnen Westfield and Jamison.

there’s always Quamby – its almost a suburb

Well, lacking any other letter Q’s that might well get a run.

We’ll see how we do.