If Your House Were On Fire...
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Absolutely. Family first including pets. Then Ill run and grab my Martin. My favorite pipe will obviously already be in my mouth, so then I grab the rest of my pipes and my tubs of Carter Hall.
Probably grab the Weaver because my buddy Bruce made them for me. Sentimental pieces more than smoking instruments.
I'd stuff my pockets with my Peterson's--then the dog. Everything else would be secondary. :nana:
If there was time. I'd at least grab a few, but I've much more important stuff, the most important kept in fire proof safes anyway.
My laptop first, all the pipes I could throw in a box, and an antique item or two. This assumes the wife and pets are already safe.
Darn. My lab is too big to fit in any of my pockets!
We don't get many house fires where I live, but plenty of earthquakes and it's all we can do to get out with our lives.
My six Disney pipes for certain. The seventh to complete a seven day set as proved elusive so far.
If my house was on fire it would probably be because I caught it on fire while smoking. So, yeah, I'd probably grab a few on before I high-tailed it out of there.
I'd just get out. I've worked 8 fatals since January alone because people valued stuff more than their lives.
Stuff isn't worth dying for.
Stuff isn't worth dying for.
I have so many other things in my life that have much more value to me than my smoking tools. And, in a fire I wouldn't have time to save them all. Besides, I have pipes laying about everywhere, the studio, my car, the garage, the barn, the back porch. It's not like I would be without any pipes at all.
Best not to put all of your eggs in one basket... spread them out a bit.
Best not to put all of your eggs in one basket... spread them out a bit.
I'd think of nothing except us and the dogs. Homes up to current code have 1-hr rated walls between rooms, so fire takes a little time to spread throughout, but smoke asphyxiation happens fast.
I have a red satin lined case that holds 12 pipes, all of my super nice pipes are in there. I would grab it and go. Right after I push the big cabinet full of tobacco out of the window
As my cellar grows I now wonder, in the case the house burns, would my smoking room go down to a fine white ash?
By the time I got my wife, with limited mobility, out, and three cats scooted out, I doubt I'd be going back in to rescue pipes, much less leaf, although this is a good case for keeping a few favorites in a vehicle or with a family member or friend, so I could smoke and brood about it all while I was camping. I'm glad I value some of my less expensive pipes as smoking briars, so I'd be satisfied with them, despite my misery and regrets about losing the flagship puffers. A good case for fire extinguishers.
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