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Bad Experiences With Another Pipe Smoker?

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  1. bubbadreier

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    First I must tell you all were I work. I work at a Hotel that is attached to a Casino (two separate companies though), the hotel itself does not allow smoking but I can go into the casino, take my name tag off, sit down, and light up! While taking my long smoke break (my general manager allows me to roll the five 5 minute breaks we are allowed into one 25 minute smoke break), and off in the distance I see another pipe smoker sitting at a bar! I wander up to him and I ask him how he was doing and he responds "fine". I responded that it is unusual to run into another pipe smoker here or anywhere for that matter and he looks at me and says "yep". He then glared at me and turned back around. I walked off dumbfounded, not once have I ever ran into another pipe smoker and not been greeted as an old friend, until now!

    Has anyone else ever had a situation like this happen to them?

    Mason jars and bale top jars, mason jars and bale top jars.... that is all!

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    I can't say I've had a similiar stuation. I can't even recall the last person I saw smoking a pipe. Maybe he had a real bad day at the Blackjack table.

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    Maybe his dog died.
    maybe he just got of the phone with his wife's lawyer.
    Maybe he is suspicious of strangers on principle.
    Maybe he had his fill of yappy drunks.
    Maybe he'd killed a man in reno;just to watch him die.
    ......dare I go on ?

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  4. pstlpkr

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    Nope.

    Wait a minute was that you?

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  5. bubbadreier

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    Well I am sure he was having a bad day, but would any of you have let a bad day ruin a chance encounter with another pipe smoker?

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    Without doing alot of exhaustive research, I have arrived at the conclusion that the world is running a population containing 2% assholes.

    It doesn't matter if its a group of like-minded individuals or contact with the general population. I have noticed that they tend to herd up, giving one the impression that there are more than 2%. But generally, I feel the 2% is an accurate estimation.

    You ran into a 2%er.

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    A couple of weeks ago I was at a B&M and this guy comes in and buys some pipe tobacco. I exude all the characteristics of a rookie pipe smoker and he was cool to me, giving me some weird advice though.

    He told me that for the first 6 months I shouldn't clean my pipe other than run a pipe cleaner through it but not detaching the stem from the shank.

    Then, after I thanked him for his advice he said something to the effect of "Welcome, pipe smokers are a dying breed." But I have heard, albeit anecdotally, that pipe smoking is on a huge upsurge.

    Anyhow, sorry for rambling on--time to light up a bowl.

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    Having a bad day is no reason to treat another person rudely. May he burn out his bowl!!

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    I've had many experiences like this, as a matter of fact. Consequently, I've concluded that the notion of some assumed brotherhood between pipe smokers is a bit presumptuous and that my pipe hobby is for many pipe smokers simply a pipe habit and not a point of common interest.

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    Wow. I have never had that happen ... except with Bob.

    He always growls at me and tells me to piss off.

    Not really.

    Anytime I see another pipe smoker there has always been a camaraderie.

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    Yes, I have had a bad experience with a pipe smoker.....I'll just leave it at that...

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    I had an experience like that once. Luckily the night before, I had just watched a show on dealing with difficult people and the method they showed for winning them over works like a charm!

    Next time that happens, take your pipe out of your mouth just smile at the person and remain smiling. Then lunge at them quickly and bite on to their neck and hold on and growl until they are on the ground whimpering like a bitch. Then stand up and pee on them, marking them as your territory. They will never be rude to you again that is for sure!

    (Ok, I saw it on the Discovery Channel in a show about wolves, but the principles are the same.)

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    I've only run into a couple of fellow pipe smokers, most out here on the ship with me. Instant connection.

    Ashore it's been the same experience, like we're life long friends getting re-connected.

    I think there is a resurgence of the art or I'm more aware of it now? Who knows, I've always believed that tobacco is best enjoyed in it's natural form...hence I quit smoking cigs years ago.

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    It's a bit odd.

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    Hauntedmyst, I guess I am going to have try that next time!

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    Yeah i may try Hauntedmysts solution at work tomorrow. Lotta assholes in retail lol.

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    never had that issue in public before. I think alot of it adds up to running into hobbyists like most on this forum rather than pipe smokers. Pipe smokers are just using pipes as a tool to get a tobacco fix. I lean towards pipe being a smoker versus a hobbyist. I would consider myself a cigar hobbyist cause I love collecting and tasting and have more experience with it. All that being said, the guy just sounds like a jerk who wasn't worth the waste of good words. Not enough good people much less decent pipers in the world.

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    Just last night I ran into "one of our kind". He was a friendly enough older gentleman. I passed him as he was huddled in a doorway with his briar while the rain billowed down around us. I was in a hurry and needed to use the ATM inside but I remarked that it was good to see a fellow pipe smoker, whatever the weather. We small talked when he came entered a moment later and then he asked if I had enough tobacco - he said he had plenty Borkum Riff to spare up in his office. I thought it was very generous and told him so but I truly had to run. It was a nice experience - second time I've ever approached someone about the hobby and I'm glad to have gotten a good response. Last time, the chap was rather brusque and indifferent - I got him to reveal his blend though, Amphora Original. I think its just his personality, I've shopped at his small shop and he isn't the most outgoing guy around. I know for a fact he was a sailor in his day and probably views the pipe differently than I do. To each their own! I hope to run into more people as time goes on.

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    I was walking arounnd today and stoped to watch a guy put up a sign and he asked about the pipe i was smoking ( a Savinelli). turns out someone gave him a Peterson and now he smokes pipes only. he even goes to the same B&M shop. nice guy.

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    Just because you see a person with a pipe in their mouth does not mean that person is one of us.

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    The Indian Casino in Niagara Falls is smoker freindly....But even though I have requrested several times the Indians wont carry pipe tobbaco

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    @steamtrain

    The Indian Casino in Niagara Falls is smoker freindly....But even though I have requrested several times the Indians wont carry pipe tobbaco

    Maybe you should suggest they carry peace pipes too for better success.

    Or at least mention the tradition. Then maybe it will make more sense to them.

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    Maybe someone just gave the guy a bowlfull of Mixture #79?

    If I may ask Bubba... why do you take your name-tag off? Were you told to do this? Does the hotel not wish to have its employees seen smoking? Next will be wearing a Nixon mask.

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    I've never had a bad experience with another pipe smoker, but had a truly malicious experience with a woman who worked in a pipe store that I had come to consider to be one of the best in the country. I finally concluded that she had her employers fooled as well. It's hard to forget, because I've always considered tobacconists to be a special group of people.

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    OK Shy,
    I'll bite,'tell us the rest of your story'.

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    No I take it off because the hotel's name badges say "RIverwind" in big letters even though it is followed up by "Hotel" everyone reads "Casino" and I get 20 different people coming up to me asking if I can help them, or where this is, etc... It got really annoying until someone came up to me to asked me a question, I informed him that I didn't actually work in the casino, and he ask why am I wearing a name badge then! *Derp* So I took it off and haven't had a problem yet!

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    I didn't go into detail because I still find the whole experience so unpleasant that I didn't look forward to repeating it. For the time being, let me just say that her name was Nicole.

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    Oh No!
    The name Nicole translates to "The Hater Of Pipes".
    Thank God she didn't cast her spell onto you!

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    No - it works the other way around - the God of Tobacco is always at work. Take this example from today's headlines. Santa Clara County was the first place in the country to pass a ban against people smoking in apartments and townhouses that they own. Now, in today's news you can read about how they are submerged in toxic waste.

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    I haven't had any bad one on one experiences, but there is a shop in Boston, that makes me feel like I am regressing to when I first started smoking a pipe and was nervous about what people would thing. To this day I go in there, and feel I am interrupting something that is going on or that I am just a waste of time for them. So now I only go there for emergencies, otherwise I make the trek to NH where I am welcomed whole heartedly.

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    Maybe it is a

    FRONT
    for something else.

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    Oh I have thought about it Chlogeo, wouldn't surprise me at all!

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    I'm sorry to hear about your encounter with the rude pipe smoker. I've never had an experience like that. Maybe it's because I'm only 25, so pipe smokers my age are so few and far between that they're happy to meet a brother of the briar - and older pipe smokers seem intrigued at the sight of someone my age packing a pipe.

    I guess it goes to show, though, you can't judge a person by his pipe.

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    Ok, I had my first unfriendly experience with another pipe smoker last week.

    Walking around in downtown St. Petersburg I saw a guy coming towards me smoking a pipe. He looked like he was about 50 - 55 years of age. (I am 47.)

    I wasn't smoking a pipe myself as I should have been. (I'm a little ashamed at that.)

    But I smiled at the guy and said, "Hey, I see you are smoking a pipe! What kind of pipe is it?"

    At which point he put it in his pocket and increased his pace away from me.

    Maybe he thought I was an anti-smoking Nazi?

    We were at my condo building on the side where the public can access the public parking garage.

    I was on my way in anyway, so I followed him into the elevator. I was in the process of getting a PipesMagazine.com business card out of my wallet to introduce myself when the elevator stopped at the 2nd floor and he ran away before I could do so.

    That was disappointing.

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  35. bubbadreier

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    Oh wow, Kevin you must have intimidated the hell out of him! haha! Well he missed out on making a pipe friend and possible making a ton more on here!

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    Maybe your deodorant failed.

    ...or he thought you were hitting on him.

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    as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau
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    Kevin think about what harm you did to that poor 'Wanna be Piper'.

    The man will never be the same again since his encounter with you. )-:

    However, there is a Bright Side to your story, that being that you can ask him if he has any pipes for sale.

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    The vast majority of fellow pipe smokers I meet are a good bunch, but one does run into the grouch once in a while. I met one such grouch in a little bar in Oklahoma once. I am guessing he was 70+.

    He was sitting next to me at the bar and smoking his pipe. I pulled out a Peterson, packed it, and lit it up. I tried to strike up a conversation with the old fellow but got pretty much the same sort of single word responses from the guy.

    Takes all kinds, I suppose.

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    I guess it is just an Oklahoma thing! Do you ever come through Oklahoma these days?

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    I do get through OK several times a year. As a matter of fact, I believe I know the exact place where you are working. Perhaps I'll get a chance to stop in some time.

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    I was in line at the grocery store and a fella was in front of me, burly older guy with thick sideburns..looked like he could be a poster man for some pipe company, first thing I thought was this guy looks like he smokes a pipe. so I pack my things and head out the door. lo and behold he is paused outside the door packing a pipe. I told him I knew he smoked a pipe by looking at him. He chuckled and did not say much. He was nice though, you could see it in him. But, sometimes speaking someone elses language in a thick American accent makes them shy or a little nervous to talk. Have to agree with what others have already said, Big difference between us hobby smokers and those that think nothing of it besides a means for inhaling tobacco. Then theirs the guys that are just going thru a short fad.

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    Without doing alot of exhaustive research, I have arrived at the conclusion that the world is running a population containing 2% assholes.

    Odd, my independent research has arrived at a similar conclusion; however, I find that a further 96% of the population are the dingleberries that gather around said assholes.

    Just an observation.

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    I have a neighbor who does exactly the same...I said hello twice and he completely ignored me....then I just gave up. His loss.

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