Skip to comments.
Doughnut shop bans children to allow customers to smoke
The Globe and Mail ^
| January 5, 2001
| Krista Foss
Posted on 01/05/2002 4:44:00 PM PST by Timesink
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 141-148 next last
To: Howlin
I'm picturing soccer moms huddled outside of donut shops and restaurants with their kids in cold, blowing rain. Cosmic Justice.
To: Timesink
I just want to know what it is with Canadians and donuts? It's like there are at least 2 or 3 donut shops on every block.
22
posted on
01/05/2002 5:03:49 PM PST
by
muggs
To: Timesink
I don't smoke but this is really great! Let the looneylibs pick up the pieces from their idiot laws.
23
posted on
01/05/2002 5:05:13 PM PST
by
dennisw
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: Howlin
Yeah,
Next thing you know, businesses will start discriminating against people who can't afford the product. What a screwed up world it'll be then...
;-)
25
posted on
01/05/2002 5:05:37 PM PST
by
unamused
To: Timesink
"The irony is that the bylaw was meant to protect children, not harm them. The way it is being applied has the exact opposite result," said David Matas, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer who works on human-rights issues. "Children are a vulnerable minority. But you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money." Something tells me this lawyer does not see the true irony here. I guess a lawyer can make a case for anything these days.
Lawyers really are the scourge of society, driving up the cost of everything, and in this case making the absurd claim that a child has a right to force everyone else to refrain from smoking.
The women had it exactly right when she huffed that there were plenty of other places to get a cup of coffee and donuts for her wee tots.
26
posted on
01/05/2002 5:07:45 PM PST
by
BJungNan
To: Howlin
I'm picturing soccer moms huddled outside of donut shops and restaurants with their kids in cold, blowing rain. Sweet irony.
If I smoked I would be the first near the window, with cigarette in hand, slowly chewing in front of those kids on a big 'ol chocolate covered donut.
To: Timesink
Those businesses that are putting smokers ahead of youth are shortsighted and grossly irresponsible
This issue has always been about health."
the bylaw was meant to protect children, not harm them.
Children are a vulnerable minority. But you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money."
What a collection of busy-body imbecilic whiners. These people make me ill. They will never, ever mind their own business. They interefered, and since it backfired, how much you wanna bet they are going to interfere again. The store owners should just ban minors, period... smoke or not.
To: bettina0
(Do you think Bill is going to remove Hillary's panties anytime soon?)
Who?, Bill?...Nah, he's too busy playin Hide-The-Cigar with young, straight, less-inhibited women...
But, I'd be willing to bet my kick-stand that Reno gets another shot at it.
To: Timesink
"Those businesses that are putting smokers ahead of youth are shortsighted and grossly irresponsible," he said. "They are putting profits ahead of employees and customers. This issue has always been about health." Wellllllllll, those donuts shops are in business to make "profits", dunce, and it sounds like they are putting their customers first or else the customers would have stayed away.
I love this! I hope they keep it up! It's a strike for freedom! These people had a choice, smokers or kids and they chose smoking customers so that they could stay in business and for freedom against the liberal nazis.
Most nazi anti-smokers usually don't eat donuts, cheesecake, drink caffinated drinks, or anything else that they "think" (have been told by their commie gurus that it's very unhealthy so as to control them) might harm them.
I could have throttled like idiots a couple of years ago when my dentist's son got a cancerous brain tumor, at the time nuts like these were trying to convince everyone that too done/burned hot dogs would cause such. My dentist was agonizing over it to me and it was heartbreaking.
30
posted on
01/05/2002 5:09:32 PM PST
by
chantal7
To: UberVernunft
I'd light it up for you. And maybe on hot days we could prop the door open...........ah, the aroma of hot donuts and nicotine!
31
posted on
01/05/2002 5:10:31 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: DWSUWF
When that battle occurs I will have a carton of Marlboro's along and will be puffing on 5 cigarettes at a time. My weapon will be blowing smoke in their faces.
To: Howlin
Maybe somebody that comes on this thread can point me to the part of the Constitution that guarantees donuts to children. Let's see...
Article 4, section 2: "...no child shall be abridged in the eating of donuts, pastries, and other candies, as may be enumerated at some future point..."
Comment #34 Removed by Moderator
To: Timesink
Someone needs to ask the people who passed the no smoking law just when did doughnuts become a good health food for kids? I'll bet if the truth was known, sugar over the long run is more harmful than tobbacco. I keep thinking the people will wake up to the stupid laws that are being passed. Maybe not.
35
posted on
01/05/2002 5:13:27 PM PST
by
kempo
To: muggs
I just want to know what it is with Canadians and donuts? It's like there are at least 2 or 3 donut shops on every block. Coffee, donuts and cigarettes for breakfast. Why, what do you 'av in the morning?
36
posted on
01/05/2002 5:13:36 PM PST
by
BJungNan
To: unamused
" But you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money." What does this MEAN? Can you explain it to me.......my brain just will NOT digest that.
Does it mean that I can't make money unless I let the rugrats in?
Pleeeeeeeasssssssssssseeeeeeeee, somebody help me!
37
posted on
01/05/2002 5:13:44 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Timesink
"We tried to obey the bylaw for one day and we lost half our business," she said.
Hmmmmm. That's strange. US resturant owners claimed that would happen to them, but the opposite happened. Turns out folks still eat EVEN if they can't smoke. Who knew?
To: madg
Personally, I'd go out of my way to visit a kid-free, smoking donut shop.
One of the few remaining donut shops near me that still allowed smoking just went no smoking last week. I kind of know the owner and asked him if it was a new city health regulation or something like that.
He said (the shop is on the edge of a kind or rough urban area) that over the last few years as almost all the other donut shops went non smoking, he did gain a lot of customers, but now as one of the last remaining that allowed smoking, his shop was becoming a haven for former alcoholics and recovering drug addicts who seemed to have a lot of energy and no place to go (and there are a number of rehab facilities in this city). He said most of these patrons (he got to know a lot of their life stories) would come in, order a cup of coffee and no donut or pastry and smoke a few cigarettes. The smoke didn't bother him as much as the place was becoming these "regulars", hang out, for most of the day, and almost ALL of the evening hours, and that there was little space for other customers to sit at the stools and booths, and that selling one cup of coffee to someone who sits at a stool for the better part of an hour didn't make sense business wise.
He said a lot of the "regulars" were really upset when he went smoke free, as they said it was one of the last donut shops for miles around that allowed smoking, and they did not know where they could go in the future.
To: dennisw
As a result, the location where Ms. Jonasson stopped yesterday had laid off three employees who are minors, according to the manager, Susan, who withheld her last name. And as an added bonus, the donut shop required three less employees on cleaning duty, now that the jelly ooze and other child-related messes have been eliminated.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 141-148 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson