Favourite Dad Moments as a Pipe Smoker?

[Ahi Ka]

Seems to be a fair dinkum amount of dads around here. Some still with Rugrats, others with adult children, and of course the codgers/poppas.

what are some of your favourite memories or anecdotes that have involved your kids and your smoking?

3 stories that quickly come to mind for me.

my eldest daughter goes op shopping (thrift stores) with her grandma on the search for estate pipes.

my youngest son could say “pipe” before he could say “papi” or “papa”

my three year old boy regularly looks at that tobacco hanging in the shed and exclaims “mmm, look at that baco papi, it smeeeelllss yummy!”

PS: honorary dad stories are more than welcome too

 

[shanez]

While in the pool or hot tub my 2 year old daughter while grab my tamper and insist on tamping my pipe for me while it's still in my mouth.

It's all very cute and funny until she grabs my kiribi lighter and dunks it in said pool or hot tub.

 

[anotherbob]

lots of times when I am smoking my pipe I think man I am so thrilled I don't have any children. Closest thing I got. Sometimes kids tell me smoking is bad and I say I know I am an idiot. And they usually nod their head like yeah you are. It's adorable.

 

[warren]

Talking about the efficacy of smoking tobacco. She would always voice surprise when I agreed with her teachers and such about the cost of smoking, moneys and health.

 

[Ahi Ka]

lots of times when I am smoking my pipe I think man I am so thrilled I don't have any children. Closest thing I got. Sometimes kids tell me smoking is bad and I say I know I am an idiot. And they usually nod their head like yeah you are. It's adorable.

Haha when I was posting I actually wondered I wonder what antics you were going to reply with

 

[bullet08]

I started late on pipes. My kids are 20 and 17. I guess they are young men now. Older one is at college, and younger one will be senior at HS coming fall. And they don't like smoking at all. I always have to let them know where I'm going when they are home. Just in case something happens to me. When I go out to front porch for smoke I'll say "going to the front porch!" My younger one always reply "alright!!!"

 

[warren]

Yup, I tried to instill in her the idea that one's moneys are only to be spent frivolously after all the necessities are seen to. This includes one of the most important, often ignored by the young, savings, to be used for unforeseen circumstances. This is a tough one to get the youth to buy into.

 

[daveinlax]

My fondest memories are watching Vikings Football puffing my pipe with a kid in my lap!

 

[anotherbob]

Haha when I was posting I actually wondered I wonder what antics you were going to reply with

I still think it's also awesome how I can tell dogs see you with a pipe and think there is a man that understands a good stick.

 

[anotherbob]

Yup, I tried to instill in her the idea that one's moneys are only to be spent frivolously after all the necessities are seen to. This includes one of the most important, often ignored by the young, savings, to be used for unforeseen circumstances. This is a tough one to get the youth to buy into.

unless they've actually experienced those unforeseen circumstances they just don't seem that bad until you wish you listened to the old folks.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

I don’t smoke in front of my kids. They are both very young though so maybe that will change. Not sure though. Although it doesn’t warrant hiding they need to be old enough to understand my choice.

 

[Ahi Ka]

This is a tough one to get the youth to buy into.

I can’t wait until I am old enough to be allowed to put the prefix “the” in front of stuff and get away with it. Lol

“On the YouTube” is probably my favourite thing to hear my father in law say

 

[trudger]

When I say “I'm going out to smoke a bowl,” I get the Dad joke groan.

 

[Chasing Embers]

All revolve around my second born and youngest daughter.

When she was little, four I believe, she picked out a pipe for me at a B&M. It was a Savinelli Alligator 904 and she said i had to have it because it looked like a Daddy pipe. Who was I to argue? That pipe was later smoked by my dad when I was trying to get him to try pipes and was also the last time I spoke to him before he passed away. That pipe is gold to me.

Sometime later, I had a small meerschaum dublin that she had to constantly have with her in its case because she heard me say how fragile meerschaum was and she had to protect it.

One day she got two of my leather single pipe stands, balled up her fists and pushed them into the stands and went about the house like a pony. Those stands do look like hooves but I would never have seen it were it not for her imagination.

 

[shanez]

I can’t wait until I am old enough to be allowed to put the prefix “the” in front of stuff and get away with it. Lol

“On the YouTube” is probably my favourite thing to hear my father in law say

I see no need to wait to put "the" in front of things.

I tell people all the time to "do the Google" when they ask me silly questions.

 

[bullet08]

I see no need to wait to put "the" in front of things.

I tell people all the time to "do the Google" when they ask me silly questions.

There is a local school. This school has number of foreign teachers from somewhere in middle east. There is this one particular teacher who's favorite saying is "Google it!"

 

[anotherbob]

There is a local school. This school has number of foreign teachers from somewhere in middle east. There is this one particular teacher who's favorite saying is "Google it!"

reminds me of something I find funny. Argue with people online and no one googles things. In person the same people will go look it up on google before apologizing about you being right.

 

[bullet08]

reminds me of something I find funny. Argue with people online and no one googles things. In person the same people will go look it up on google before apologizing about you being right.

Of course. The reality of getting kicked in the ball is too real in person.

 

[anotherbob]

Of course. The reality of getting kicked in the ball is too real in person.

I know I've had the same people who online threaten me get all doe like and polite in person. And I'am not that intimidating of person.

 

[Peter - CCB]

As a Dad and being in the pipe business a bit, my 7yr old loves the smell of tobacco. Not smoke, I don’t smoke around him but when I’m packing a pipe ... he goes “oh that’s the good smelling one.” And it’s def never aromatic. He says that about dark flake, English and a good Virginia.