"Excuse me, sir! You can't smoke there."
The slim man dressed in khakis and a beige, button-down shirt ignores the overweight staff member outside of the clinic doors, continuing to smoke.
"You can't smoke anywhere on hospital property."
"I am in the street," the man exclaims taking notice of the woman on the sidewalk.
"You can't smoke anywhere within a two block radius of the hospital. Put that out!"
The man in the street smoking ignores the woman on the sidewalk.
"Are you going to put that out!?"
"Call police! Call 9-11!" the man retorts continuing to smoke.
The woman hushes and enters the double doors behind her into the hospital clinic.
The man finishes his cigarette, stamps it out with his foot and enters the double doors to the clinic a minute or two after the woman staff member scolds him for smoking in the street.
At the reception desk in the lobby, the woman who had scolded the man for smoking outside in the street too close to the clinic entrance is complaining to the receptionist to do something about the man outside smoking. A hush falls over the four or five women staff members at reception when the man enters the clinic and walks through the four or five staff members at reception.
The man walks past reception without a word exchanged to any of the staff members and checks into his appointment at the far end of a long hallway.
Upstairs at a therapist appointment: the man recounts to the therapist his conversation with the woman outside.
He says to the therapist that up until 2002, the hospital handed out free cigarettes to people on psyche wards and that he hoped for a ticket smoking on hospital grounds so that he could go to court and make a plea for prescription cigarettes: that somehow he, the man, is "grandfathered" into being allowed to smoke on hospital grounds due to the fact that at psyche wards where he had been housed on eight different occasions since 1993, some psyche techs would impose a rule as to nobody is allowed outside of the ward into the courtyard unless a patient has a cigarette.
Yet, 95% of psyche ward patients diagnosed with schizophrenia smoke. The man explains to the therapist that he is not a 5 percentile.
"Besides," the man says to the therapist, "that woman is so fat: her visa would be revoked in New Zealand!"
The slim man dressed in khakis and a beige, button-down shirt ignores the overweight staff member outside of the clinic doors, continuing to smoke.
"You can't smoke anywhere on hospital property."
"I am in the street," the man exclaims taking notice of the woman on the sidewalk.
"You can't smoke anywhere within a two block radius of the hospital. Put that out!"
The man in the street smoking ignores the woman on the sidewalk.
"Are you going to put that out!?"
"Call police! Call 9-11!" the man retorts continuing to smoke.
The woman hushes and enters the double doors behind her into the hospital clinic.
The man finishes his cigarette, stamps it out with his foot and enters the double doors to the clinic a minute or two after the woman staff member scolds him for smoking in the street.
At the reception desk in the lobby, the woman who had scolded the man for smoking outside in the street too close to the clinic entrance is complaining to the receptionist to do something about the man outside smoking. A hush falls over the four or five women staff members at reception when the man enters the clinic and walks through the four or five staff members at reception.
The man walks past reception without a word exchanged to any of the staff members and checks into his appointment at the far end of a long hallway.
Upstairs at a therapist appointment: the man recounts to the therapist his conversation with the woman outside.
He says to the therapist that up until 2002, the hospital handed out free cigarettes to people on psyche wards and that he hoped for a ticket smoking on hospital grounds so that he could go to court and make a plea for prescription cigarettes: that somehow he, the man, is "grandfathered" into being allowed to smoke on hospital grounds due to the fact that at psyche wards where he had been housed on eight different occasions since 1993, some psyche techs would impose a rule as to nobody is allowed outside of the ward into the courtyard unless a patient has a cigarette.
Yet, 95% of psyche ward patients diagnosed with schizophrenia smoke. The man explains to the therapist that he is not a 5 percentile.
"Besides," the man says to the therapist, "that woman is so fat: her visa would be revoked in New Zealand!"
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