Today’s Brief Question About Why You Keep A Cigarette Behind Your Ear
August 16th, 2006
Alright hotshot, here’s what I want to know.
If you’re a smoker, why keep a cigarette behind your ear? I mean, you don’t only have ONE cigarette if you’re a smoker…you’ve got a whole pack somewhere. Because if you ARE a smoker, you can’t just have one. So where are the rest of the smokes, and why don’t you keep them all together?
Of course, if you’re not a smoker, why the hell do you have a cigarette behind your ear?
Just wondering. Hotshot.
Those who smoke at someone else’s expense generally keep a cigarette behind the ear. You see they take two when offered one so the can smoke with that generous smoker (a gregarious group if ever I saw one, smokers are) and tuck the other away for a smoke later when no one is around to bum off of. Sometimes they inconspicuously steal the lighter of the generous smoker so they can light up later, too.
I suspect the recent increase in earlobe cancer is somehow connected to tucking the cigarette behind the ear as well.
Comment by Jerry — August 16, 2006 @ 9:32 am
It’s better than sticking it up your nose, right?
Comment by monkeyinabox — August 16, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Personally, I’d rather see someone with a cigarette in their nose as it would be far more interesting and less “wannabe.”
Comment by Pauly D — August 16, 2006 @ 10:17 am
Wow, do people still wear cigarettes on top of their ears? I thought that went out with, like, Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront.”
Comment by Karl — August 16, 2006 @ 11:01 am
I think guys do that when they are out for a bit and don’t have room in their tight pants for a whole pack. With the naked eye, he has one behind his ear, but I am sure there are others hidden elsewhere on his bod. Girls don’t usually do this because they have purses which make them the real hot shots in this story.
Comment by sarah — August 16, 2006 @ 11:30 am
not a smoker, can’t offer an insight.
Comment by better safe than sorry — August 16, 2006 @ 12:47 pm
i think you may have answered your own question.
Comment by Jacquie — August 16, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
This month’s Vogue says that cigarettes behind the ear are out, but the rolled up pack in the t-shirt sleeve is coming back.
Comment by Just a crazy woman — August 16, 2006 @ 6:04 pm
I postulate that the lovely seborrheic epithilial cells behind the ear lend a certain Je ne sais quois to the smoking experience. Some people, feigning abstract and dejected “coolness” inhale clove cigarrets. Some pay top dollar to by the french (erm. “freedom”) galoise. I suspect that this is just another plot to look and feel the testosterone soaked part of Fonzie (who clearly, clearly was doing way more than combing his hair in Al’s diner bathroom all the time).
Just sayin’
Comment by Julia Farley — August 17, 2006 @ 5:42 am