Answers to some gripes

[WWhunter]

vaflyer,
The glass room comment was in jest. LOL That is why I tagged the little guy winking.
Yes, the medical issue really SUCKS!!! I grew up on a farm with both of my parents being smokers. It didn't bother me a bit back then. Now it feels like I am sucking down razor blades! Seriously painful, and why the heck it came on so quickly is beyond me.
Good luck with quitting! My wife was a heavy smoker until the last kid was born and that was when she decided to quit. It was hard and she still has those days she craves one. Its been 25+ years for her.

[Bill Greenwood]

The "glass room" comment may have been a joke, but it is reality at Denver Int Airport. When it was being built, the public was promised it would be smoke free, but not quite.. I think some of the big tobacco companies got in there, so there are several smoking rooms, one in the main part, then out on the concourses.

It is an average size room. supposedly sealed to the outside. You can imagine what the atmosphere and smell are like inside that place. I would rather eat that "white bar-b-q sauce" (mayonaise with garlic) that I saw at EAA, before I'd walk inside that place much less sit in there and breathe it. I don't know how they get anyone to be a waitress there. It is rarely full, but there have been a few people whenever I have passed by and looked through the glass. The don't look very happy. I don't know anyone that has ever been inside one, and I am very glad that I am not one them.

One of the doors is through the back of a restaurant, and is is supposed to be sealed but when waiters walk in or out, the smell comes pouring out so it is gross to sit in that part of the restaurant.

About 20 years ago our Mayor Bill Stirling got an no smoking ordinance for most places in town. There were some loud protests, one bar, Little Annies, claimed they would be put out of business, and customers would never come here again. Now, that bar is still doing a good business, and 9 out of 10 people like it this way. It is particularly important for kids to grow up with good ideas of health, and not thinking smoking is normal. Studies have shown that if tobacco companies can't get kids hooked while they are teenagers, they aren't likely to ever get them.

[OldGunbunny]

I would rather eat that "white bar-b-q sauce" (mayonaise with garlic) that I saw at EAA,.

Don't make insulting comments about that Alabama barbecue sauce, them folks get really riled up when you do.

[shack42]

My gripes about Oshkosh are - The idiots who charge around on the scooters without a thought for safety. they remind me of the streets of Ha Noi, Stupid officials who deliberately park cars/buggies in front of me when I am trying to take a photograph. EAA does not last long enough, I started in 1973 and have only missed one EAA so can be considered something of an expert on EAA, not bad for a person from England. Exhibitors who have nothing whatsoever to do with flying. Personally I think that EAA or whatever it is called has become too big and too commercialised.