I Saw a Unicorn

[finnian3]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

While driving around scouting out tobacco shops farther afield, I spotted a unicorn. This was not the unicorn of myth and legend. It was a pipe smoker! You heard that correctly, a pipe smoker is a unicorn. Once, long ago, unicorns roamed the land. While never large in numbers, their presence was not beyond doubt. As the age has waned, and the evils of fashion and law have grown, the number of unicorns shrank to the point where they can only be spied in smoky rooms in far away places. Yet today, while busy on my way, a unicorn passed my way. A billiard was in play as it rode away.

It is like that, spotting one of our kind smoking away in public too.

 

[americaman]

Nice. I believe the last two times I saw pipe smokers in the wild was when I was living in Northern California, in 2018. Outside of San Francisco (I think it was Berkeley area) an older man was walking through a shopping center with a pipe in his mouth. It might have been Marty Pulvers for all I know, and the tobacco smelled great. I had just started pipe smoking that summer, so it was rather unremarkable to me as I figured there were more of us. There was another guy in Vacaville that would sit out on his front porch in downtown and puff a pipe.

 

[PipeDad33]

The last time I seen one was about 20 years ago. He was a 50 something year old coworker.

 

[Chasing Embers]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

While driving around scouting out tobacco shops farther afield, I spotted a unicorn. This was not the unicorn of myth and legend. It was a pipe smoker! You heard that correctly, a pipe smoker is a unicorn. Once, long ago, unicorns roamed the land. While never large in numbers, their presence was not beyond doubt. As the age has waned, and the evils of fashion and law have grown, the number of unicorns shrank to the point where they can only be spied in smoky rooms in far away places. Yet today, while busy on my way, a unicorn passed my way. A billiard was in play as it rode away.

It is like that, spotting one of our kind smoking away in public too.

Go to Central Kentucky. Smokers of all kinds abound unharassed and unashamed. My company alone is 60% smokers and six, including myself, are pipe smokers.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

One of my neighbours smokes a pipe so often walk past and smell what he's smoking. I always ask him about it too, he's much older than me but always get a decent chat. Maybe unicorns in Scotland are more common, it is our National animal after all.

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

Until a couple of years ago I had a neighbour who was smoking a pipe all the time. He drove a green VW T4 van, never to be seen behind the wheel without a large Bent in his cheek!

 

[JOHN72]

Go to Central Kentucky. Smokers of all kinds abound unharassed and unashamed. My company alone is 60% smokers and six, including myself, are pipe smokers.

I love Kentucky................

 

[JOHN72]

In my city it's easier to see a Martian making CrossFit,that a person smoking in a pipe............

 

[Humblepipe]

I live in rural Northern CA. I am a unicorn (but not a snow flake). I did see another pipe smoker, once, within the city limits of my small po-dunk rural town. I would have said "hey", but he was smoking his pipe while pumping gas. Safety first... I guess natural selection had not yet done its magic.

 

[scloyd]

I live in a small town (pop. 7600) and I see one on occasion drive past my house, always with a pipe in his mouth.

 

[Elric]

Here in Florida, AKA God's waiting room, I've seen a few over the last year.

 

[mso489]

It's a rare species with no known habitat, possibly blown off course during migration and striving to survive as an invasive species. Don't talk it up, or people will show up with binoculars.

 

[simong]

Unicorns? Two a penny down my way, never seen one smoking a pipe though.

 

[kcghost]

Very scarce creatures unicorns.

 

[finnian3]

Being a proud snowflake:] I am always amazed at a unicorn sighting. It has been about 5 years since I last spied one.

 

[MidnightPuff]

I work at a drugstore and we got one. He comes in and buys a few pouches of captain black and a few boxes of AyC Grenadiers. He's always incredibly happy.

 

[bullet08]

You know why there are no water buffalos in Mexico? Packs of chihuahuas finished them off right after last ice age.

 

[elvishrunes]

I’ve seen about 10 unicorns here in my home town of Toronto, Canada, over the last ten yrs. now that I count them up, more than I thought at first... And one of those was none other than myself, catching a glimpse of my own reflection in the sacred pool...

 

[jpmcwjr]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

While driving around scouting out tobacco shops farther afield, I spotted a unicorn. This was not the unicorn of myth and legend. It was a pipe smoker! You heard that correctly, a pipe smoker is a unicorn. Once, long ago, unicorns roamed the land. While never large in numbers, their presence was not beyond doubt. As the age has waned, and the evils of fashion and law have grown, the number of unicorns shrank to the point where they can only be spied in smoky rooms in far away places. Yet today, while busy on my way, a unicorn passed my way. A billiard was in play as it rode away.

It is like that, spotting one of our kind smoking away in public too.

Was the sighting thrilling?

I see several a week when I am walking in town.

 

[jrharrigan]

I thought you might have seen esoterica tobaccos for sale somewhere.

i'll just keep on waiting.