Wexford 22 - the Monster in the Box
“Ashtrays on the tables were piled with ash and cigarette ends, the ceiling yellow and polished with tar deposits.
'If the day ever comes when they bring in a smoking ban,' Wexford said, 'this place will get a clean-up. They might even get new curtains.' 'More likely to close down. People won't come. Smokers like to smoke while they drink.' 'Or we shall have the place to ourselves.' Wexford went to get their drinks. The saloon bar was quieter than usual as if in anticipation of r...estrictions to come. Two girls sat chatting and smoking at a corner table. In his youth, Wexford thought, they would have been in a teashop but they would have offered each other cigarettes then as now. The elderly man who sat alone with his yellow Labrador – did people now refer to him as an elderly man? – had a pipe in his mouth. Pipes would disappear. Even now his grandsons talked of seeing someone smoke a pipe as he when a boy might have spoken of seeing an eccentric in galoshes or using a monocle.MoreLess
'If the day ever comes when they bring in a smoking ban,' Wexford said, 'this place will get a clean-up. They might even get new curtains.' 'More likely to close down. People won't come. Smokers like to smoke while they drink.' 'Or we shall have the place to ourselves.' Wexford went to get their drinks. The saloon bar was quieter than usual as if in anticipation of r...estrictions to come. Two girls sat chatting and smoking at a corner table. In his youth, Wexford thought, they would have been in a teashop but they would have offered each other cigarettes then as now. The elderly man who sat alone with his yellow Labrador – did people now refer to him as an elderly man? – had a pipe in his mouth. Pipes would disappear. Even now his grandsons talked of seeing someone smoke a pipe as he when a boy might have spoken of seeing an eccentric in galoshes or using a monocle.MoreLess
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