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Me and my pipe
18 years ago
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Well,
I smoke, a lot. But when I want to relax, I smoke my pipe (sorry guys, only the legal stuff). Smoking a pipe was a lot more of an art than I had realized when I started five years ago. Lots of stuff you gotta learn to make the experience enjoyable. How to use a pick and nail, how to clean, how to breath, and so on. I was taught by an old dude who used to hang out at the coffee and cigar shop I frequent. It felt like a 'passing of skills'. Meet him at the shoppe, see if I could smoke properly enough to get a bowl off a church warden to last 45 minutes plus. Now I can keep a nice steady puff going for an hour to an hour and a half. It's very economical. >.>
Lately tho, I smoke my pipe in the comfort of my own house. It's like incense, only it can give you cancer, hehe. What rare times I smoke it at the coffee shoppe I just make a small bowl, enough to last maybe a half hour. I have my reasons, and today one of those reasons showed up. Every so often some army recruits fresh outta basic will get a pipe to celebrate. I do admit, it is humorous to watch them experiment with it. Puff puff give, and so on.
Today though was different, as it would appear someone who could barely operate a door was given a pipe. Normally this isn't a huge concern. I mean, the worst that happens is they hurl because they try to smoke it like a cig and get queezy or they buy a blend that's too strong for them, or other small things that just cause minor embarrassment. I was watching some guy with a nifty new pipe playing and fondling it, nothing bad there. He didn't properly poke the pack in the bowl, so he occasionally inhaled a chunk or two. All minor beginner stuff. He didn't understand what his nail (a lot of pipe nails look like big nails you hammer down, but with flattened ends for scooping ash), and when he went to stir his bowl he almost stuck his finger in the damned bowl.
Usually I don't care but I had to say something, namely cause someone screaming in agony at having a brand new sausage digit tends to ruin lunch. He shrugged me off when I told em, "Hey, that's not a good idea." Apparently in basic they beat TOO much sense outta him. His logic was, "There's no fire so it can't be too hot..." A few minutes pass, I got back to smoking my cig and drinking my coffee, reading the latest mags the cafe offers. Suddenly I hear, "YEOW FUCK!" and the off snapping sound. Sure enough, he had tried to stir with his damned finger, reflex causing him to drag his hand down, smashing the pipe from his jaw's grip and slamming it on his table.
The fool had just broke a $200 pipe.
I had to weep a little when I saw such a beautiful pipe meet an untimely end.
My pipe...Is a regular ole brair wood long stemmed church warden. It cost me like $80, and is my fourth pipe. I have two meerschaum pipe, one of a lion's head and the other of an eagle's claw. The last pipe I owned was my 'training pipe'. Cost me all of $17 and was a good learner.
I still want a pipe like the hobbits had in Lord of the Rings. >.>
I smoke, a lot. But when I want to relax, I smoke my pipe (sorry guys, only the legal stuff). Smoking a pipe was a lot more of an art than I had realized when I started five years ago. Lots of stuff you gotta learn to make the experience enjoyable. How to use a pick and nail, how to clean, how to breath, and so on. I was taught by an old dude who used to hang out at the coffee and cigar shop I frequent. It felt like a 'passing of skills'. Meet him at the shoppe, see if I could smoke properly enough to get a bowl off a church warden to last 45 minutes plus. Now I can keep a nice steady puff going for an hour to an hour and a half. It's very economical. >.>
Lately tho, I smoke my pipe in the comfort of my own house. It's like incense, only it can give you cancer, hehe. What rare times I smoke it at the coffee shoppe I just make a small bowl, enough to last maybe a half hour. I have my reasons, and today one of those reasons showed up. Every so often some army recruits fresh outta basic will get a pipe to celebrate. I do admit, it is humorous to watch them experiment with it. Puff puff give, and so on.
Today though was different, as it would appear someone who could barely operate a door was given a pipe. Normally this isn't a huge concern. I mean, the worst that happens is they hurl because they try to smoke it like a cig and get queezy or they buy a blend that's too strong for them, or other small things that just cause minor embarrassment. I was watching some guy with a nifty new pipe playing and fondling it, nothing bad there. He didn't properly poke the pack in the bowl, so he occasionally inhaled a chunk or two. All minor beginner stuff. He didn't understand what his nail (a lot of pipe nails look like big nails you hammer down, but with flattened ends for scooping ash), and when he went to stir his bowl he almost stuck his finger in the damned bowl.
Usually I don't care but I had to say something, namely cause someone screaming in agony at having a brand new sausage digit tends to ruin lunch. He shrugged me off when I told em, "Hey, that's not a good idea." Apparently in basic they beat TOO much sense outta him. His logic was, "There's no fire so it can't be too hot..." A few minutes pass, I got back to smoking my cig and drinking my coffee, reading the latest mags the cafe offers. Suddenly I hear, "YEOW FUCK!" and the off snapping sound. Sure enough, he had tried to stir with his damned finger, reflex causing him to drag his hand down, smashing the pipe from his jaw's grip and slamming it on his table.
The fool had just broke a $200 pipe.
I had to weep a little when I saw such a beautiful pipe meet an untimely end.
My pipe...Is a regular ole brair wood long stemmed church warden. It cost me like $80, and is my fourth pipe. I have two meerschaum pipe, one of a lion's head and the other of an eagle's claw. The last pipe I owned was my 'training pipe'. Cost me all of $17 and was a good learner.
I still want a pipe like the hobbits had in Lord of the Rings. >.>
