Christopher is now at Linda’s:

It’s 20 minutes after the ban took effect, and people are smoking like it’s going out of style. I asked one girl if she had a cigarette. She pointed to her purse and said: “I have a whole pack in here. I’m just passing them out. You wanna smoke? You wanna smoke?”

Some guy nearby who was smoking said, “I quit smoking fourteen months ago but I came out tonight just to smoke.” Then his friend leaned over and said, “Because douche-bags in Bellevue should not get to decide who smokes in Linda’s.”

At another table, another guy said: “I wish the Republicans would stop trying to legislate morality and I wish the Democrats would stop legislating health and common sense. And if I wanna fuck a dude and have premarital sex, fuck the Republicans. If I want to ride an unsafe rollercoaster or smoke indoors, fuck the Democrats. They can both get the fuck out of my life because they’re raising a nation of people who can’t think for themselves.”