First I tried not carrying cigarettes, bumming them from friends.
There were people spread out on the porch, spread out in the doorways, bumming cigarettes, bumming money, doing nothing".
The social settings that prompt occasional smokers to take a puff or "bum" a cigarette can make it difficult to say no, especially when friends and peers also are lighting up.
I love every dumb, drunk girl I made out with in the bathroom, every nasty, cheap shot I took there, every cigarette I bummed off a stranger and every fucking person who ever walked through those doors except one.
"What are you doing?" Another day outside the courthouse she finished off a partially smoked cigarette that she bummed from a passer-by.
Frances writes grant proposals at a nonprofit agency, bums cigarettes from the graphics guy and refuses to marry her financier boyfriend because he isn't willing to eat soft cheeses.
After throwing back a few craft beers and playing some skee-ball, we chatted about politics outside the bar as he bummed cigarette after cigarette off me.
After throwing back a few craft beers and playing some skee-ball, we chatted about politics outside of the bar as he bummed cigarette after cigarette off me.
Sure, our hearts will still swoon when Marissa asks Ryan, "hey, can I bum a cigarette?" in the first episode of The OC, but more and more shows are taking a realistic view of modern love and are introducing dating apps into storylines.
And then there's the local woman whose artificial leg is an elephant tusk; Bena's dead brother, Jonas; even a cameo appearance by Bonnie Parker, who bums a cigarette from Bena and tells her she never wanted children.
