Did Santa Take My 8 Ounce Can Of Haunted Bookshop?

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shermnatman

Lifer
Jan 25, 2019
1,043
4,819
Philadelphia Suburbs, Pennsylvania
So, I have - had - one of those older 8 oz. cans of Haunted Bookshop; which is really hard to miss with the yellow lettering against the black background. It has always lived with all my other cans/tubs, in the same place where all my cans/tubs have lived forever; and yet, last night when I went to get it for the first time in about a week... lo and behold... it was magically "not there".

Now, no one else in the house smokes a pipe; and, no visitors/relatives were in the house since I used the can last, except for late in the evening, on the night of December 24th, when this fat, bearded pipe-smoking guy in red underwear, appeared in my den, via the chimney.

Upon discovering that we were the targets of a home-invasion, he was summarily driven-off the property by my broom-wielding wife - she could put most ancient Samurai to shame - and, the dogs got in one or two good nips on his jingle-bells, as he disappeared out our front door, and fled screaming into the dark of the night.

Since that time I have searched all over the house, and no sign of my big can of Haunted Bookshop can be found.

So, I ask you:

Have you ever had that moment when you suddenly realize that an entire can/tub of tobacco has gone magically missing from your stash, and, you cannot find it anywhere? - Sherm Natman
 
Jul 17, 2017
1,802
6,630
NV
pencilandpipe.home.blog
Yes. I swore I bought a tin of briar fox this summer on vacation. Couldn't find it. Convinced myself I stashed it in a drawer at my in laws to age another year before I'd be there to crack it. It's not there either. Only thing I can think is I imagined the entire scenario of buying, stashing to age and returning a year later to open, all while looking at it on the shelf of the B&M, and never actually purchased it ?
 

shermnatman

Lifer
Jan 25, 2019
1,043
4,819
Philadelphia Suburbs, Pennsylvania
Saint Nickel-Less can buy his own Burley! I’m gonna go punch a Mall Santa.
Well, I don't intend to go that far; HOWEVER, effective 00:00:01 am EST, December 26th, 2020, I have declared a total and compleat Moratorium on Christmas Day, until my 8 oz. can of Haunted Bookshop re-appears into my immediate possession, or, until December, 24th, 2021 at 11:59:59 pm EST; whichever comes first. - Sherm Natman
 

Grangerous

Lifer
Dec 8, 2020
3,613
14,772
East Coast USA
Well, I don't intend to go that far; HOWEVER, effective 00:00:01, December 26th, 2020, I have declared a total and compleat Moratorium on Christmas Day, until my 8 oz. can of Haunted Bookshop re-appears into my immediate possession, or, until December, 24th, 2021 at 11:59:59 pm EST; whichever comes first. - Sherm Natman
We do all the work and some guy in a red suit gets all the credit and he steals your baccy? Nah.