Just a fun little thread I thought I'd create, and I know if @chasingembers doesn't get to vote on a poll once in while, he goes a little squirrely, so I'll add one of those.
Do You Smoke Entire Bowl At Once, Or Sessions?
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If worms had machine guns, would the robins mess with them...?
A little of both. While doing chores I'll pull my pipe out for a few puffs, I usually keep one in the front pocket of my work shirt/jacket with a windcap rubber banded on. At night I like to smoke an entire bowl.
I cant remember the last time I left a bowl unfinished (for longer than a bathroom break).
never seem to finish the entire bowl. but last few days, i'm finding very little tobacco's left in the bowl after first session. more than likely i'm smoking through the mid bowl since that's the yummy part.
I'm not sure what a session is. I sometimes set my pipe down to eat, and then pick it back up to continue. Or, while driving, I will leave the pipe in the truck's pipe rest to fill the tank up with gas or go to the restroom. Or, when I walk into the grocery store, I will put the pipe in my shirt pocket to shop, and then continue afterwards. Is this the same as an incomplete session?
I would call those minor interruptions. Now, in my opinion, if you start a bowl and then sit it down and come back to it an hour later, that would be a new session. But, that's just me.
Sleep. In my younger day, I would have said sex.What on earth would someone possible do for an hour that couldn't include smoking?
One bowl can last most of the day. Virtually never go from top to bottom in one sitting.
When I light my pipe I have every intention of finishing it. It is very rare when I don't .
Finish it down to the last cinder. Sometimes i take the bowl size of the particular pipe into account and sometimes given bowl size and tobacco strength i pack a half a bowl,. but i always finish the entire thing.
Wouldnt even think of letting a partially smoked bowl of tobacco sit in a pipe if i cared about it, might ruin the cake.
Wouldnt even think of letting a partially smoked bowl of tobacco sit in a pipe if i cared about it, might ruin the cake.
Wide variation on this, for me. I most enjoy doing the whole bowl in a meditative stretch, or while I'm busying around on some chore or project, but I often smoke intermittently, over an hour or two, or even over two days, late in the evening and then picking up the next morning or next day. This is of necessity, not preference, but sometimes having a pipe all packed, and maybe partly smoked, is a real convenience. It doesn't diminish the experience, even if it shortens it.
I usually don't do anything else when smoking a pipe, except maybe play a game on the smarty pants phone. So, I finish the bowl, or dump what's left each time.
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