After my birthday, I asked my wife to email me pictures of my pipe so that I could show it off to the one fellow piper I knew at work.
While I was showing Allen the pipe, people started showing up. I was totally blown away at how many guys were pipe smokers. The younger ones were fascinated, and expressed interest. Since having tobacco and related products on company property are a fireable "offense" no one even talks about their hobby.
What really surprised me were how many women wanted their husbands to take the pipe up, they hate chew and want them to change to something "classy". I gave them all Missouri Meerschaum's website and told them that was the way to get started without a lot of cash outlay.
Don't know how many "interested" people will follow through, but I was truly amazed at the amount of pipe smokers there were, and that I'd worked with them for years and didn't know we shared the interest.
While I was showing Allen the pipe, people started showing up. I was totally blown away at how many guys were pipe smokers. The younger ones were fascinated, and expressed interest. Since having tobacco and related products on company property are a fireable "offense" no one even talks about their hobby.
What really surprised me were how many women wanted their husbands to take the pipe up, they hate chew and want them to change to something "classy". I gave them all Missouri Meerschaum's website and told them that was the way to get started without a lot of cash outlay.
Don't know how many "interested" people will follow through, but I was truly amazed at the amount of pipe smokers there were, and that I'd worked with them for years and didn't know we shared the interest.
