Negative Space: language police

I was lighting a cigarette outside the local strip mall video store, and a woman I do not know stopped and said, “You know, I realized that every time I lit a cigarette, I was really trying to stuff a feeling,” before flouncing on in to the newly opened espresso bar.

I remember thinking, (after “did that really happen?”) ahHAAA!, so this is the nineties! — Morgan Mussell