No Love for a Pipe

[layinpipe]

Spent time with you I have not, but I'd imagine we'd get on just fine, mate! My step-dad is from the UK (Wales), so I am quite used to you British blokes' quirky and somewhat different sense of humor, as well as understanding what the hell you guys are saying sometimes, lol!
One thing remains clear though: Flatulence is universally funny and offensive anywhere you go at any age.

 

[mso489]

Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said, "Fart proudly." There were showmen in Paris who used to perform tunes with intestinal gas, though I don't know how they sustained the supply of methane. After a point, this is a fire hazard!

 

[danielplainview]

I'm glad you were reunited with your pipe. Did you cradle it in your arms and tell it everything is alright now?

I've had a moment of sheer panic when I've misplaced a pipe before. Tis something I wouldn't wish upon anybody.

 

[condorlover1]

@mso489 I think you are think of Le Peto Man a famous French flatulist entertainer from the 1890s! :rofl:

 

[blueeyedogre]

Long time ago a pipe was an extension of a man, same as his hat and coat. Now a pipe is given no more respect then a pack of cigarettes with a few smokes left in it. Kind of a sad change if you ask me.

 

[huntertrw]

Perhaps the after-school counselor misread the maker's name on the pipe and thought that it said "Ashcan." This might explain her reason for putting it in the refuse container.
N.B.: What in the world is an "after-school counselor"?

 

[condorlover1]

Its a job that is created so that those people with sociology degrees are not left unemployed!

 

[foggymountain]

Glad you got it back. I went through a similar but worse experience. I was sitting on a bench at the Hudson River pier near Christopher Street, with the woman I was lucky(or foolish) enough to marry later. When we left I failed to pick up my camera bag from the bench. It had a Leica M6 and lens in it. They were worth thousands of $. Half an hour later I remembered the camera. We rushed back and saw a police officer on a bicycle getting ready to pedal away with it. He just handed it to me. Whew!

 

[huntertrw]

foggymountain:
She must have been quite a woman to make you forget your Leica gear! You are a lucky man.

 

[samanden]

Blueeye, that is exactly how my pipes feel, like an extension of myself. And yes Daniel, me and my Ashton slept on the same pillow last night.
Huntertrw, "Counsoler" probably isn't the right word to describe them. They are more like instructors for the before- and after-school program for the children of parents who go to work early, or get off late.

 

[buroak]

I am glad this story had a happy ending. Its beginning was pretty grim...

 

[barleynbaccy]

Some people just throw things away when they find them.
My grandparents run a tool store in a strip mall kind of setting. The vendors setup tables outside with wares and people browse around. Well one day a lady asks to use our phone inside. We let her, and she proceeds to call the cops and report her purse has been stolen. Who does she think stole it? The 16 year old me, who used to watch the tables outside for my grandparents. It was fun being detained... The look on her face when they found it in a dumpster without anything missing was priceless.
At least all turned out well.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Glad you were able to recover the pipe. This is the reason that I carry my cobs in my pipe bag. If I lose it or damage it I'm only out a couple bucks.

 

[okiescout]

Congratulations on the recovery, samanden.

Lost wallet,check book, pipe, etc those heart pounding occasions that clear the plaque out of your arteries.

 

[wfin73]

Yeah, and there is a group of assholes out there that would claim it's child abuse and want you JAILED for it(and might make it stick in certain parts of the country) ...

When I first started smoking a pipe, my sons would insist on sitting on the porch with me while I smoked because they loved how it smelled.

 

[tennsmoker]

Samanden: I own several Ashtons. I would be just bereft should I lose one. They are like members of the family to me.
I think the teacher needs a lesson in trying to return someone's property.
But, nonetheless, I'm very glad you were reunited with your Ashton. They are truly works of art. At least in my view.

 

[thehappypiper]

What happened to your pipe was sheer vindictiveness. If it had been a ten year old corn cob or a beaten up old basket pipe, this would have been bordering on understandable, but an expensive pipe looks like something of value. Whoever did it was simply nasty.

On a similar note, I used to be a Buddhist monk and I kept in touch with some of my fellow initiates after we left Holy Orders [ to use a Christian phrase]. He became an R.E. teacher and while studying he became friendly with a Catholic ex-priest. I visited him with my friend and after I left the ex-priest told my friend he felt a "palpable sense of evil" from me. I considered this a compliment. However, my friend had to go away for a few months and asked this man to take care of his Buddhist Art collection, including a work he was in the process of completing {Dorje Bernakchen in YabYum]. When he got back he was told by this disgusting bigot that his entire collection had "Accidentally" been thrown in the garbage. I am sure he is going to hell.

 

[ahpui]

Lost my pipe in Seoul when I was there for tour, no one throw into the bin for sure as I ramaged through the nearby one.
They got better taste there, it's a small BBB Paul Oom.

 

[joshb83]

Just glad you had a happy ending! Losing your pipe because you're caring for your kids is understandable but a shame nonetheless. Glad you found it

 

[seadogontheland]

The true palpable sense of evil is the feeling one gets on their fingertips when running it through a completely desiccated tin of $400 Balkan Sobranie. :evil: