I smoke my pipe at work every few hours. I work security for Comcast, so on my rounds I'll stop by the smoking area and hang out for about 10-15 minutes and BS with the other smokers who are all pretty cool guys.
I happened to bring my large T. Polinski semi-sandblasted poker today as I had loaded my pipe last night for Broncos/Seahawks game and never got around to it.
One of the guys on my first smoke break see's me smoking and says "Hey, what's up Sherlock?" I usually play along with jokes as it is just my nature, so I say "Yup, can't get any detective work, now I'm just wandering around here trying to solve the Case of the Missing Bike Lock."
Him and another guy start laughing, so I kept rolling with it, talking about pulling people into a room together "so that I may find the thief in our midst who has stolen the printer paper from IT's copy room." The villainous plot of course "which goes all the way to the top ranks of the company."
We all had a good laugh. Next time the same guy comes out with another smoker we know, see's me puffing and says to the other "Hey, want to go sit on grandpa's knee?" So I started rolling with it again, waving my hand over the very large lot of land that our already huge facility sits on "You see this here land, sonny? This used to all be nothin', just dirt, weeds and coyotes. There was no Comcast. Hell, nobody had even heard of a Comcast, quite frankly it sounds too much like Commie."
Que more laughs. We'll see if he can come up with more pipe smoker jokes now that we've been through Sherlock and Grandpa.
I happened to bring my large T. Polinski semi-sandblasted poker today as I had loaded my pipe last night for Broncos/Seahawks game and never got around to it.
One of the guys on my first smoke break see's me smoking and says "Hey, what's up Sherlock?" I usually play along with jokes as it is just my nature, so I say "Yup, can't get any detective work, now I'm just wandering around here trying to solve the Case of the Missing Bike Lock."
Him and another guy start laughing, so I kept rolling with it, talking about pulling people into a room together "so that I may find the thief in our midst who has stolen the printer paper from IT's copy room." The villainous plot of course "which goes all the way to the top ranks of the company."
We all had a good laugh. Next time the same guy comes out with another smoker we know, see's me puffing and says to the other "Hey, want to go sit on grandpa's knee?" So I started rolling with it again, waving my hand over the very large lot of land that our already huge facility sits on "You see this here land, sonny? This used to all be nothin', just dirt, weeds and coyotes. There was no Comcast. Hell, nobody had even heard of a Comcast, quite frankly it sounds too much like Commie."
Que more laughs. We'll see if he can come up with more pipe smoker jokes now that we've been through Sherlock and Grandpa.
