San Antonio man creates Facebook event inviting public to 'smoke a cigarette' with him

Jack Stieben wants you to smoke a cigarette with him. Why? “Just ’cause.”

A San Antonio man is inviting the public to meet him at the Starbucks next to the San Antonio Zoo on Saturday, Dec. 13, at precisely 1:20 p.m. The purpose is simple: he just wants you to smoke a cigarette with him.

“But why?” you might ask. “Just [‘]cause” is the stated reason on the flyers the Alamo City resident has posted around town.

‘Nuff said.

In his public Facebook event, local heavy metal musician Jack Stieben invites anyone and everyone of legal age to join him in lighting up a smoke.

“Come smoke a cigarette with me in front of the Starbucks next to the San Antonio Zoo. I can’t afford to bum everyone a square so you will need to bring your own,” he writes. “You need to be 21+ years of age to smoke cigarettes so that’s a requirement too.”

This San Antonio event is part of a larger trend of silly flyers sweeping the nation. In this trend, one maverick rises out of the abyss of digital isolation to invite strangers to take part in a nonsensical moment for unknown reasons.

“Come watch me eat an entire rotisserie chicken,” read the viral flyer by the now legendary Philly Chicken Man, who consumed his 40th rotisserie chicken in as many days on an abandoned pier near a Walmart in front of a crowd of onlookers. “This is not a party” he added.

Would you smoke a cigarette with this man?

So far, the San Antonio Facebook event only has 14 takers and 39 on the fence, but that’s quite a cloud of smoke already for one specific location.

Like a fumar flash mob, local coffin-nail connoisseurs will descend upon the unsuspecting Zoo-area Starbucks and disappear just as quickly in a cloud of smoke.

And who knows? Maybe they’ll make friends sometime between first light and last ash. The holidays are a time for breaking bread, after all.

This is just the smoker’s version.

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San Antonio man creates Facebook event inviting public to ‘smoke a cigarette’ with him

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