Today I did Something I Have Never Done Before

[Ahi Ka]

In the local supermarket here in La Paz, Baja California Sur I was in the butchery section.

A Mexican abuela walked passed me and her perfume was exactly the same, and I do mean exactly the same, as the topping of GH bosun plug.

Once I caught a whiff, I couldn’t help myself and preceded to do my shopping in whichever order she was going so I could continue to smell it.

I wanted to ask what scent she was wearing, but I couldn’t think of a way to approach the subject.

I can’t wait to get back to NZ and crack open one of my jars. It’s my favourite aromatic blend from the Lakeland’s.

 

[brian64]

It takes a lot of courage to publicly admit you're sniffing old ladies at the grocery store.

 

[Ahi Ka]

It takes a lot of courage to publicly admit you're sniffing old ladies at the grocery store.

How else do you think the Gawiths’ came up with their blends back in the day?

 

[Ahi Ka]

I just heard weezel’s voice in my head…

“that wasn’t perfume you dirty bastard ”

 

[brian64]

How else do you think the Gawiths’ came up with their blends back in the day?

My sense of smell is so poor I probably never would have noticed it.

 

[Waning Embers]

Mexican perfumes and colognes can be very floral. There's even one from Japan that smells like Ennerdale.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Mexican perfumes and colognes can be very floral. There's even one from Japan that smells like Ennerdale.

So that’s where all the sauce has gone!

 

[mingc]

So that’s where all the sauce has gone!

And what you need to buy to get extra sauce!

 

[huntertrw]

If you don't speak Spanish, you could have used Google Translate. The exchange might have gone something like this:

"Madam, you smell just like my pipe-tobacco."

Google Translates this to, "Señora, huele usted a mi tabaco de pipa."

Unfortunately, if you run that back through Google Translate it comes out, "Madam, do you smell my pipe tobacco" which is not quite the same thing.

Perhaps it is best that you let the matter go...

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I've had the same experience several times. Almost makes me want to hang out with old ladies more.

 

[Ahi Ka]

If you don't speak Spanish, you could have used Google Translate. The exchange might have gone something like this:

"Madam, you smell just like my pipe-tobacco."

Google Translates this to, "Señora, huele usted a mi tabaco de pipa."

Unfortunately, if you run that back through Google Translate it comes out, "Madam, do you smell my pipe tobacco" which is not quite the same thing.

Perhaps it is best that you let the matter go...

I do speak Spanish, so that wasn’t my issue. I actually just didn’t know how to start the conversation without offending her or sounding like a creep.

I’ll make a point of loitering there around the same time next week incase she comes back

 

[Ahi Ka]

Something you’ve never done before.
I was expecting you to say you respected your elders, you whippersnapper prick.

Hey hey, I started a whole thread to celebrate your wisdom and learn from your exploits…and it clearly had no affect on me.

I humbly ask for your advice on how I should approach said Señora next time we meet

 

[georged]

I’ll make a point of loitering there around the same time next week incase she comes back

And so it begins

 

[Ahi Ka]

Also…if cosmic shaved his beard and died his hair, I swear he would look like Johnny

 

[Simplicity]

Wait - you had a chance to meet Rachel and you passed it up?

 

[camaguey]

Hey hey, I started a whole thread to celebrate your wisdom and learn from your exploits…and it clearly had no affect on me.

I humbly ask for your advice on how I should approach said Señora next time we meet

The approach may be the same as you would do with an northamerican grandma. Just kindly ask her after you comment on how nice does her perfum smells. Senora , que bien huele su perfume , me podria decir cual es?

 

[Ahi Ka]

Wait - you had a chance to meet Rachel and you passed it up?

This took me 20 minutes to get.

 

[carp rides again]

It takes a lot of courage to publicly admit you're sniffing old ladies at the grocery store.

One of the funniest things I've ever read on the internet web

 

[rotate]

In the local supermarket here in La Paz, Baja California Sur I was in the butchery section.

I can’t wait to get back to NZ and crack open one of my jars. It’s my favourite aromatic blend from the Lakeland’s.

I’m Curious? You have Lakeland pipe tobacco already in New Zealand or is it Lakeland tobacco you’ve purchased in the USA to take back to New Zealand with you?

The reason I ask is because I have a son and his family who live in New Zealand, Parua Bay Northland they love it camping boating fishing and hunting their spare time away and I had planned to spend most of this European winter in NZ‘s summer, an old leg injury played up making travelling the distance unwelcome and I cancelled.

Time being my own I’m planning on trying again for a couple of months in NZ this coming European winter and from what I’ve read pipe tobacco is even more difficult to find in NZ than it is in Cyprus where theres often little or nothing and where Cyprian Latakia Pipe Tobacco once came from and supposedly still does so but in reality doesn’t unless it’s extremely old stock, ten to fifty years old!

Whats the situation please with pipe tobacco in NZ, I know it’s very expensive to buy but is it, any pipe tobacco not just Lakeland readily available or is it better to take what I can find in Cyprus or Dubai where I’ve got to hang around for ten hours between flights with me and take the hit in taxes and duty in the hope that twenty or so customs declared 50 g tins won’t get confiscated by the authorities at Auckland airport?

I can’t ask my son or his wife about this as they are both doctors and while they are not particularly anti pipe smoking, their only interest being if a patient can survive an operation or not they know nothing about pipe tobaccos or obtaining them in NZ.

Thanks in advance

 

[mortonbriar]

Whats the situation please with pipe tobacco in NZ, I know it’s very expensive to buy but is it, any pipe tobacco not just Lakeland readily available or is it better to take what I can find in Cyprus or Dubai where I’ve got to hang around for ten hours between flights with me and take the hit in taxes and duty in the hope that twenty or so customs declared 50 g tins won’t get confiscated by the authorities at Auckland airport?

Hello, bring tobacco with you. There is very little here to choose from, and I would guess none in Northland. You can only declare 50g per person without paying the tax/duty (@Ahi Ka can update that if quantity changed this last year or so)