Should I?

[Kimmy]

My kid keeps stealing my cigarettes. I ordered 3 bags of cigarette loads today. Should I use them?

[cuda]

What the hell good are they if you don't use 'em? :rolleyes:

[Barb101]

You better, I didn't give you that link for nothing! ;)

[cuda]

I can just see Kimmy lighting up the wrong cigarette... *BOOOOM!* :smokin: :!: :(

[Kimmy]

I'm glad you said that.. the little sneak will find the packs and get me back if I'm not extremely careful

[jillamanda]

:mad: I'd use 'em....

[shotglass]

You can use one or two of those, but you may get paid back for it. If you use it, roll out the tobacco about halfway down, put the load in (or two), then put the tobacco back in. It's a bit of a process, but if you just shove it into the end, he will likely just relight it 5 seconds later. Scares 'em more, too.

Ever heard of a sherman? Don't know what they're called now, but you can dip the cig into some liquid that will make it taste like crap, and put it in your pack after it dries. Don't know what to tell you to use, cause I would use insecticide. Might not be good to use on people you don't want getting very sick.

[Kimmy]

I just wish I could get it on film.. and I feel so guilty for feeling that way!!!

[cuda]

Originally posted by Kimmy
I just wish I could get it on film.. and I feel so guilty for feeling that way!!!

wuss... :sure:

[STIBROKER]

If you take a horsehair ( main or tail ) and run it down the middle with a long needle he will get really sick and may deture the evil smoking habit.....load up a pack and watch the fun.....might be his last....it's like diping...you swollow on the first time's you will never do it again....

[Kimmy]

horse hair... that's interesting.. anyone else know about this?

[cuda]

I keep picturing Kimmy's face all black with her hair all frizzy after her cigarette blows up in her face. :laugh: :laugh:

umm... OK i'm over it now. :sure:

[Kimmy]

Don't feel bad, Poodles.. I pictured the same thing :laugh:

[jillamanda]

Originally posted by Kimmy
horse hair... that's interesting.. anyone else know about this?

I have heard something like that, now that you mention it. Didn't know it made them sick though, just thought it made them taste like shit.....

[cuda]

Now you just gotta find a horse. :rolleyes: Try some pubic hair. :idea:

[Kimmy]

:confused:

it'd be easier to find a horse hair around my house

[wrecker05]

Military school. A quick google search found this link. http://www.get-radical.net/ Although there is no real information except for a phone number. :mad:

[jillamanda]

:rolleyes: Wow, that looks like fun!!!!:) If that fails Kimmy, we still have some old penal colonies here, we could shackle him and get him to build a few bridges......that should fix him.

.....although alot of our bridge building convicts ended up as 'bushrangers', the equivalent of your outlaws, I suppose.....:what:

[jillamanda]

Just looking at that boot camp schedule, I'd be a bit concerned about what they'd be doing between 6.00 am and 7.05 am - Rise and Shine??? hmmmmmm.........

[wrecker05]

It seems so Californian to wake up at 0600. Personally, I believe a 0400 wakeup, with a 0430 formation is more appropiate. More than enough time.

[bearfoot]

Kimmy...my sisters is a heavy smoker and her teenage daughter started smoking at 14 (at least that's when my sister found out)..now she's 16 and smokes heaps. :what:
I know it's difficult but perhaps you could give up smoking....that would put an end to him nicking your cigs. You could discuss it with him and perhaps you may inspire him to rethink this unhealthy choice he's made and kick the habit with you...you could even ask him to help inspire your efforts. Of course...you'd add that you're doing it for him...no mother should ever miss the opportunity to lay the guilt and the 'I did it for you' trip on the their kid.:rolleyes:
I don't smoke and I'd be horrified if my daughter chooses to smoke. Yeah, it's their life but it would still be hard to see them make bad choices that you can do little about.

[jillamanda]

Originally posted by wrecker05
More than enough time.

For what?:sure:

[Kimmy]

Originally posted by wrecker05
Military school.

Thank you, Wrecker

[cuda]

Originally posted by jillamanda
If that fails Kimmy, we still have some old penal colonies here...

uh-huhuh... you said penal. :rolleyes:

[Kim Possible]

Originally posted by bearfoot I know it's difficult but perhaps you could give up smoking....that would put an end to him nicking your cigs. You could discuss it with him and perhaps you may inspire him to rethink this unhealthy choice he's made and kick the habit with you...you could even ask him to help inspire your efforts.

I agree with bearfoot. I used to be a drug counselor for kids - I saw kids as young as 8 and 9 get hooked on cigs and it's soo hard to get them to stop. The 'loaded' cigs would be good as a 'gotcha,' but your best bet would be to try to stop. It would be the toughest thing you did EVER - but the best way to get your child to stop smoking is for you to stop too.

Good luck

[Kimmy]

Yes, that sounds like the logical answer, but I can assure you, it’s not. He’s smoking because his friends smoke, not because I do. My problem is with him stealing, more than smoking. I’m really not looking for answers to make him stop smoking. I’ve done all I can with that.

[cuda]

Have you tried putting your foot to his ass?

[Kimmy]

Yes, I've tried.. he's the type of kid that you'd have to cross the line of abuse to get his attention (not exagerating). I did scare him this morning, without raising my hand... I told him it wasn't a good idea to test me and something in my voice made him believe me and he backed down.. first time he's done that.

[Kim Possible]

Sorry Kimmy if I stepped on your toes - you do what's best for your child not what anyone else feels what is best. You're his mom - not us. To be honest - I have no idea how those 'loaded' cigs work - it would probably be very surprising for him.
Good Luck

[jillamanda]

Originally posted by cuda
uh-huhuh... you said penal. :rolleyes:

So?.....:sure: This place was colonised by 'penals'....

[STIBROKER]

Originally posted by Kim Possible
To be honest - I have no idea how those 'loaded' cigs work - it would probably be very surprising for him.
Good Luck

first you get a toothpick and they load it with just enough gunpowder that it blow's the end of the cig. off........I was a waiter once and use to put them in the cig's of the cook's as a gag...but I would use a toothpick and shove them about half way down the cig.......so after work in the club these thing's would go off 1/2 half way through....man those were the day's.....

[jillamanda]

;) You can do it with match heads too. just break the tip off and pack it in....

[shotglass]

You gotta be careful with those cig loads. I stuck one in a co-workers cig once. I was hoping to watch her light it. Instead, I got busy and forgot to take it out of there when she hadn't lit it at the end of the day.

Fortunately, she lit it the next morning, in her house, instead of while she was driving to/from work. She was pissed, but we had a good laugh about it. I never used one again, simply because if that had gone off and she was driving and been hurt or worse, I would have been real sad or worse.

So be careful with those. Give him a swirlie instead.

[bearfoot]

So the main problem then is stealing from you. My neice takes her mothers cigs too....it's like cigarettes just don't count when in comes to stealing. My sister used to steal my dads cigs..so perhaps it's some sort of tradition.
You could tell him that for every cig he takes from you, you will take something of his...he may get the message when he finds his room almost empty (of course you'd start by taking his favorite things).
........or maybe you could change to menthols...they're so horrid he won't touch them:rolleyes:

Parenting is such an experimental thing..we try so many differnet things..some work others don't but we never give up huh. :)

[Kimmy]

Originally posted by shotglass
I never used one again, simply because if that had gone off and she was driving and been hurt or worse, I would have been real sad or worse.



If he's driving, I'm gonna kill him anyway :nolike:

[jillamanda]

Originally posted by Kimmy
If he's driving, I'm gonna kill him anyway :nolike:


Atta girl.......


:thumbsup: ;)

[WARTHOG]

Back in the day, when I was in the Navy, I had an awful problem with people stealing my smokes, so I picked up some loads in France.

God, You could hear those things go off all over the ship, LMAO!

Up side was they did start leaving my smokes alone. And, no, in case you wonder, I was not hoist by my own petard either, LOL. I smoked out of a fresh pack, LOL.