One of my bad habits is smoking. It’s getting harder and harder for us smokers to find a place to smoke. Gone are the days when I can pull out my cigarette in a meeting and just puff away. Now, I have to go to the emergency stairway of our building to smoke. Even that is gone now. Recently our building administrator installed a door alarm in the emergency exit.

Trying to bypass a simple door alarm is not easy. I tried opening the door ever so slowly only to be met by a shrieking sound that sent me running like hell. After that incident I needed a smoke really bad. The supervisor of our building went to our office to find out who triggered the alarm. Fortunately no one had seen me, by the time the supervisor asked our office, I was already in the nearby café smoking.