Halon
I guess all kinds of
things can make you smoke. Quitting or not smoking is being able to not let anything dismay you into smoking. It isn’t
easy, never has been, and I guess it never will be. Self control simply is
discipline, and that may very well be habit control. We need to control our habits, or
they will just control us.
I used to sell halon
fire extinguishers, and our…err, the company I worked for had a cool commercial
on the local channels. In it a sexy lady shrieks as she stands back in horror, with her arms flailing in the air, as a
grease fire on her stove goes out of control. Then her husbands runs up to the
stove, and sprays the fire with our halon fire extinguisher. As the smoke
clears, everything is nice and
clean, with no mess to clean up. We used to make presentations
by pouring lighter fluid on top of a
brief case, then after lighting it, we sprayed it, and cleanly put out the
fire. Henry who was one our top sales reps, had stopped smoking for almost a
year. Then one Monday morning, before anybody else arrived, he walked into the
office nervously puffing away.
“Henry…ya smoking,”
Sid, our sales manager, exclaimed with a grin.
“Well ya na how it
is.”
“No I really don’t,
but ya stopped for a year…wat happened, man?”
“It’s a long story Sid!”
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