Guys,
You will never believe what happend to me today. Why does this stuff only happen to me????
AND YES BEAR... Mercy had another dance with the devil today.
There is this new Volunteers of America Store near me. I get some incredible finds there. I was browsing the purses and saw a really cute one. I was checkig out the pockets and estimating if I could fit all my parafanalia into the purse and notice a cool pocket on the outside. I unziped it to see how big it was and thought it would be great for my keys.
Lo and behold......YIKES..... there was a pair of sun glasses in the pouch along with 3/4 of a pack of cigarettes. I froze!!!! They were the skinnyest cigarettes I ever saw. The name was Capri.
I started to have this two way conversation going on in my head again.
The one voice said..... "hey..finders keepers...take them and sneak and smoke them..ahhhhh a few cigarettes in the summer on the patio!" ..... the other voice kind of sounded like God, in a deep voice saying...."Mercy..thine do not want them...thou shall not smoke them!!"
I held the purse with my arm stretched out as if a stinky fish was in the purse and went to the counter to the clerk and said there was items in the purse. She looked at me puzzled. I must have looked horrified as she didn't take the purse from me. I told her again there was items in the pocket they forgot and in the zipper was sunglasses and cigarettes. I "wispered" LOUDLY to her....I quit smoking .....please take this purse.
To my surprise....she wispered back just as loudly....."I CAN'T.... I QUIT TWO MONTHS AGO. Now... there we stood.....both frozen. She looked to the back of the store and yelled for the other employee...."Susan..come quick and get this purse."
We congradulated eachother and both had a good laugh. She told me she is using chantix and has been quit for two months.
I sure do hope the other employee broke them up and threw them out.
Ask me if a few months ago I could have ever done what I did, and I would have resounded...NO..NEVER.
But here I am today....proud as a peacock and relishing in the confidence of my quit.
I realized today more than ever before..... this quit was, and is, all about me......not taking a puff.....ever.
Thanks for listening.
Mercy
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/21/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 130
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,600
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $581.10
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 17 [B]Hrs:[/B] 3 [B]Mins:[/B] 31 [B]Seconds:[/B] 34