Is There a Worse Sound...

[rorrer]

Title edited for caps. See rule 9.

... than the sound of one of your favorite pipes hitting the concrete floor?

Was having a smoke in my garage workshop this morning with a little Dunhill 1110 Liverpool. Went to grab it from its perch on a wall ledge and somehow clumsily dropped it.

I think I squealed like a little girl. I'm sure my heart skipped a beat.

Luckily, the pipe is just fine. Can't even find a dent or scratch. I'm sure the lightness of the pipe helped it emerge unscathed.

Sheesh. First world problems I know, but still ...

C.Rorrer

 

[mso489]

Maybe that's the vaccination that will keep you from dropping it in the future.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

IDK, the sound of a tree falling through my roof was a tad worse. But yeh... also the sound of stepping on a pipe is pretty terrible.

 

[That Guy]

Yep the crunch sound of your meerschaum pipe being run over not realizing you dropped it while still inside of it's case. ?

 

[rorrer]

Maybe that's the vaccination that will keep you from dropping it in the future.

I'd like to think so. The definition of "vaccination" seems to have changed a bit from what it used to mean, though. But I digress ...

C.Rorrer

 

[rorrer]

IDK, the sound of a tree falling through my roof was a tad worse. But yeh... also the sound of stepping on a pipe is pretty terrible.

OK. You win. No contest.

Maybe this was just the worst sound I heard this morning. Or the worst pipe-related sound?

C.Rorrer

 

[rorrer]

Yep the crunch sound of your meerschaum pipe being run over not realizing you dropped it while still inside of it's case. ?

GACK! THE HORROR!!

C.Rorrer

 

[kcghost]

That's a rough way to start the day.

 

[solideogloria86]

That's a bad sound. The squeak, followed by the snap of a cracking shank from stupidly forcing an overly tight stem is a bad one too. What's even worse, is hearing it more than once in your life when you know better. ?

 

[sablebrush52]

... than the sound of one of your favorite pipes hitting the concrete floor?

Your toddler being torn to shreds by a pack of coyotes?

 

[sablebrush52]

... than the sound of one of your favorite pipes hitting the concrete floor?

Your spouse clearly having the sexual thrill of her life with someone who isn't you?

 

[pipingfool]

That escalated quickly...

 

[Grangerous]

Perhaps hearing a nurse say, “who was that?” —immediately after you’ve had a digital rectal examination?

 

[STP]

New iPod hitting the pavement isn’t a good sound either… and then that squeamish glance as your eyes begin to focus on the cracked screen?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Onto a more pleasant side: A save! Anyone got a story on how he saved a pipe from shattering?

I have one: Pipe slipped out of hand. Foot went out instinctively and kicked it onto carpet. One save only.

 

[warren]

Of course there is/are!

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Touch wood, so far I've never dropped a pipe.
Well actually, I did drop some cobs in the trash can

 

[Streeper541]

You've obviously never been below the waterline of a naval vessel being actively pinged by enemy sonar.

But yeah, pipe crashing isn't necessarily one of my favorite sounds either.

 

[jaygreen55]

I've had much worse. One of our cats loves to climb up on shelves, the higher the better. Last month he got into my library where I keep my pipes and decided to explore the shelf where several of my pipes were sitting knocking 12 of them 51/2 feet to the wood floor below and unfortunately there were casualties. 5 tenons were broken

The culprit

The Pipes

 

[anotherbob]

worst sound I heard was...
I had a dead tooth that had to be snapped out of my head. I choose to not get put under and trust me there is something horrible about hearing a bone snap coming from inside your head. They have you hooked up to a monitor that shows your bp and damn it spiked hard for a few seconds after that sound.