Revenge by proxy

I really like my new apartment and love the area. The only things that really annoys me is that smoke from my neighbours cigarettes comes into my apartment. I think I could live with getting smoke on the balcony when they are smoking on their balconies, but when it gets into the apartment it is really disturbing. I have spoken to the landlord about it in case there was something you could do to the ventilation to prevent this, but obviously it isn't. Instead they sent out a note to everyone in the house to respect the neighbours and avoid smoking on the balcony. I can't say it has been working very well. Ok, on the one hand I admit I am a strong anti-smoker and would not mind if smoking was totally banned. On the other hand I realise the unrealistic in this and I don't want to forbid my neighbours to smoke on their balconies as I am generally not in favour of banning things (eventhough I do think it is equivavelnt to the general ban on grilling on balconies in Sweden.

However I got particlarly pissed off this morning when I found ashes and a cigarett butt on my balcony. I mean smoke is one thing, it is difficult to stop it from spreading, but if you smoke or have smoking guests at least you can use an ashtray!! Angrily I threw the butt off from my balcony down to the yard. The moment after the thought struck me that I ought to have thrown it down on my downstairs neighbours' balcony!! Their smoke is the one that bothers me the most. Of course I realise the butt can hardly come from them, but this would have been a (small) way of getting back on them. To show them that smoking on the balcony affects the neighbours and that it is pretty disgusting. Some kind of revenge by proxy.

I regretted I got this idea too late. But on the other hand, maybe I should be glad things like this is not the first thing that hits my mind. That I am above this kind of petty revenge...