Lost A Smoking Spot

dpkrause · May 12, 2013

I went to one of my favorite coffee shops today to enjoy a breve and a pipe on their patio. Turns out that they have come under new management and they don't allow any smoking on the patio any more. What a shame, I used to love that coffee shop.

On a bright note, I added a flake of MacBaren's Old Dark Fired to some Boswell's Northwoods to make a strangely satisfying mix.

hogfoot · May 12, 2013

Sad to hear it. Times change, and not always for the better.
Then again, as a friend once told me, after storm there is always calm. Your old smoking spot will rest safely in your memory, perhaps you will get many a good smoke while walking around looking for a new one. Good luck.

kcvet67 · May 12, 2013

Be sure to let the management know that they have lost your business and why. Any commercial venture is driven by the bottom line. Does a change in policy result in more profit or less? If you remain silent about your displeasure, they assume that their new policy is the correct one. Be polite, but tell them firmly that their decision means that you will no longer be a client. It may not make a difference, but if enough people complain they may rethink their policy.

mso489 · May 12, 2013

That was a lucky break, to have that patio for smoking. I'm so used to smoking being verboten, I would

never think to take a pipe to a coffee shop, bar, state park, etc. It's even tricky at campus hookah bars,

since I don't want to smoke a hookah, just my tobacco in my pipe. If you are smoking with others who

are paying for hookah, it might be okay. So it goes. I'm old enough, I go back to when I was a non-smoking

teenager on a bus from Chicago to Ft. Myers Florida with a busload of cigarette chain smokers. I had to get

off in Florida and walk around several blocks to get the nicotine-sick out of my blood. It wasn't a complaint.

It was what you did then. No questions. So I've seen my life from both sides now. But outdoors on the patio?

Seems a sad lose.

hodirty · May 12, 2013

What a shame. I would let them know just why they are losing business. Best of luck finding a new place.

kashmir · May 12, 2013

That is indeed unfortunate. The irony of course is in promoting a "cafe society" without the tobacco. Something inevitably is lost in the translation. I was in Europe a few years back, Portugal, Spain and France, and everyone was smoking in the cafes and pubs. I met quite a few pipe smokers on that trip, many sitting at outdoor cafes. Most were older gentlemen and, despite the language barrier, I was able to turn quite a few of them on to the GLP blends I was toting at the time.

dpkrause · May 12, 2013

I am still pretty lucky. There are still plenty of places for me to smoke my pipe, including indoors at few bars, the local tobacco shop, and ironically Starbucks patio. If all goes well I will be closing on house in the end of June thar has a massive front porch.

teufelhund · May 13, 2013

That's a bummer; there are now two municipalities that only allow smoking on your own property in my city. I avoid them like the plague; I'm just waiting for the day when they say I can't smoke in my car while I drive through them. the world is definitely on it's ear.

cigrmaster · May 13, 2013

That sucks. I would definitely tell management they have lost your business and that of your 50 smoking friends. Luckily here in Florida, we can still smoke outside at most places.

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