Loitering

[Husar]

Just a thought: Is not what we do here, in the backroom, the off-off-topic subforum of an internet game-fan site, also:

?

I mean, do we not loiter here, seeking to impress each other with our own definition of coolness?

And I'm obviously the coolest kid in the park.

That said, taking the property of another (snatching a cigarette) is obviously wrong, and in some neighborhoods I've lived in, could lead to some serious consequences, from a shouting match, to a knife-fight, to gunplay, depending on the seriousness of the perceived insult.

Just curious but where did you get that from?
If it's from this quote:

One of them who was in direct view saw me and looked at me with a smug face, as I walked and took a cigarette which I wanted to light up.

I got that as

One of them who was in direct view saw me and looked at me with a smug face, as I walked and [ I ] took a cigarette which I wanted to light up.

otherwise it should be

One of them who was in direct view saw me and looked at me with a smug face, as I walked [ , ] and took a cigarette which I wanted to light up.

If it's version 2 and the guy took a cigarette out of Bijo's mouth/hand, that gives the whole thread a very different meaning.
I took it for version 1 actually which sounds like he's just enraged about loitering as the thread title suggests but version 2 adds an exciting aspect of physical violence and danger with a missing application of the second amendment that unfortunately doesn't exist in the Netherlands.

A cigarette isn't worth a lot, but where do you draw the line? When they take your 300€ cellphone or your 10000€ car?
In caveman terms the guy clearly showed that he's superior in version 2, he can take your property and you do nothing, that's why I'm not yet ready to assume version 2 is true since you need to tell us in that case, whether you blushed or not, Bijo.