Seriously dumb people

The other day I was getting gas. Three pumps away from me was a mom with her two kids in the back of the car and someone I assumed to be grandma in the passenger seat. Mom got gas and went inside to pay or something. In the meantime, I noticed grandma was out of the car with a cigarette in her hand. She was considerate enough to get out of the car so she wasn't smoking next to her grandkids. She even held the cigarette out away from her as she leaned towards the open window to talked to the kids while mom was in the store. Wouldn't want to get sceondhand smoke on the kids. Problem was she was smoking NEXT TO A GAS PUMP!!!

At first I thought, this couldn't be. Then she walked from the passenger side of the car to the driver side that was closer for me to see, but also RIGHT NEXT TO THE PUMP. A brief image of the place blowing up with me and Piper right there flipped through my mind. There wasn't free-flowing gas within 15 feet of her, but c'mon. I am not one of those "someone should do something about that" people, but this situation just seemed so blaringly obviously. I thought someone should say something, but no one else was seeing what I was seeing. I am also so not the kind of person that is comfortable calling out a stranger in public. Plus, this grandma looked like she could just start screaming back at me. Afterall, she's obviously not altogether with it because she's smoking a cigarette at a freaking gas pump with her grandkids in her car (at least she's protecting them from secondhand smoke lol).

When I was done fueling up, I pulled forward to the store and went in and reported her to the clerks. They immediately told her via the intercom to put out her cigarette. By this time, I was already back outside and heard her scream back, "It wasn't lit!". Yeah, right. I wonder what she would have screamed at me as a first hand witness to the lit cigarette.

I think the intercom method of calling her out was the best choice for me because I wasn't directly involved and hopefully a little public humiliation will do her some good. Seriously, who smokes at a gas pump? Seriously dumb people, that's who.