I've had pipes around me since '72 and bought my first meerschaum in '75. I may have around 140 or so now... and I've always been a stickler for being easy with them and having a good place to set them down. OCD... I have to have my surroundings just right before I even take a pipe out of it's place, whether in my chair or going out. And I do take my pipes out and about with complete safety. Fortunately, I've never dropped, scratched, chipped, scrapped or dented one of my meerschaums until today. This isn't going to be a story of a lost or destroyed pipe, just a scratch actually.... I just hate a soiled paper, a crumpled photograph, a spoon in the fork slot, or the green scrubber pad left in the sink.....! I always had to have things just right or forget it. Today I just made a permanent shop pipe I guess.
At the shop today I was building a small patio table for a friend, turned around and planted my face head-on into one of the legs. My pipe got loose and I reached out, grabbed, bobbled and grabbed some more. Got a few fingertips on it and up it went airborne again. I did catch it before it hit anything, but I guess my ring-finger got hold of it more than the rest.... I just hate one of my pipes got scratched....
I know, "Big Deal!" but that's just the way I am....
At the shop today I was building a small patio table for a friend, turned around and planted my face head-on into one of the legs. My pipe got loose and I reached out, grabbed, bobbled and grabbed some more. Got a few fingertips on it and up it went airborne again. I did catch it before it hit anything, but I guess my ring-finger got hold of it more than the rest.... I just hate one of my pipes got scratched....
I know, "Big Deal!" but that's just the way I am....