I got an old timer back into pipe smoking and I am so pleased with myself for it!
It is fun observing him too. Here's the quick story.
My dad lives about an hour North of me and I go visit and sometimes spend the night. I have a bedroom there and keep some drug store pipes and tobaccos there.
One of my dad's friends that is 82 years old smokes cigarettes, and they hang out in the garage and chat while he smokes.
(No smoking in the house.)
I was hanging out in the garage with them smoking my pipe when Tony told me he used to smoke a pipe decades ago, and he smoked Half&Half.
Later, I bought a pack of Half&Half to try, but didn't get the chance to open it.
On a subsequent visit I was coaxing Tony into taking up pipe smoking again and I got him to do it by giving him one of my pipes and the new pack of Half&Half.
I gave him a Yello-Bole that was a $20 - $25 pipe that I had smoked a few times already.
We didn't smoke right then as we both had to run.
A few weeks later I came over and found that he had been smoking the pipe on a regular basis.
Now, he had some Zig-Zag Cigar Blend Pipe Tobacco.
It's funny watching him smoke - no tamper, just his finger, the rim is dirty as heck, and he sets the pipe down inside the ashtray - in the ashes!
I'm just glad he is smoking his pipe and that I didn't give him an expensive one and some boutique tobacco. I'm not sure if he could be any happier than he is with his dirty $20 Yello-Bole and drug store tobacco.
It is fun observing him too. Here's the quick story.
My dad lives about an hour North of me and I go visit and sometimes spend the night. I have a bedroom there and keep some drug store pipes and tobaccos there.
One of my dad's friends that is 82 years old smokes cigarettes, and they hang out in the garage and chat while he smokes.
(No smoking in the house.)
I was hanging out in the garage with them smoking my pipe when Tony told me he used to smoke a pipe decades ago, and he smoked Half&Half.
Later, I bought a pack of Half&Half to try, but didn't get the chance to open it.
On a subsequent visit I was coaxing Tony into taking up pipe smoking again and I got him to do it by giving him one of my pipes and the new pack of Half&Half.
I gave him a Yello-Bole that was a $20 - $25 pipe that I had smoked a few times already.
We didn't smoke right then as we both had to run.
A few weeks later I came over and found that he had been smoking the pipe on a regular basis.
Now, he had some Zig-Zag Cigar Blend Pipe Tobacco.
It's funny watching him smoke - no tamper, just his finger, the rim is dirty as heck, and he sets the pipe down inside the ashtray - in the ashes!
I'm just glad he is smoking his pipe and that I didn't give him an expensive one and some boutique tobacco. I'm not sure if he could be any happier than he is with his dirty $20 Yello-Bole and drug store tobacco.
