The Yellow Square is Very Crowded

Ever since The Ban came on, the demographic at all the outdoor cafes and coffee shops has changed dramatically. I just had tea at the Flying Pig cafe, Suntec Tower 3, and noticed that outside the smoker's square demarcated by cheap yellow tape, almost all the tables were empty. Inside the yellow square, it was full house, except for one table which was half in, half out of the yellow tape. No one wants to sit there because you look like an idiot with smokers only occupying half the table and all facing the same direction. Plus is it not against the spirit of the law to blow the smoke into the non-smoking area?

Same story at Killiney Kopitiam at Millenia Walk. It would have been the same story at the Indian restaurant a little further down, except that the 2 tables they allocated for smoking customers were occupied by cutlery and water jugs. Smokers are not welcome, said the cutlery and the water jug.

I think the people who have come out well from all this are the people who sell yellow tape.