I started pipe smoking in earnest about 2.5 years ago. I'm a weekend warrior type, maybe smoking 4 or 5 bowls a week, and that spread across a pipe collection of about 10 pipes I smoke regularly. They were all bought new or restored estate pipes. A few days ago I was doing a deep cleaning of several pipes and lo and behold.....I had some serious cake buildup, as in way too much cake right in the middle of the bowl as a souvenir of lot of abandoned bowls as I was learning my way. I felt like I had graduated from pipe college, and Vince Vaughn was giving the commencement speech:
All Growns Up
All Growns Up