Well it seems I have gone and done it now. I went to one of the local pipe shops today checking if my senior reamer set had come in. It had not come in as of yet as far as the new and very timid shop employee knew. So as he was helping other customers I began to browse the store with my fiance in tow to insure I did not attempt to buy out the whole store. While glancing at one of the pipe display cases my eye was caught by a very small and dare I say it... cute meerschaum pipe. It was very small and looked to be about the perfect size for smoking on a work break.
I some how managed to distract myself by pestering the poor new guy working at the store. Asking him if seeing as they carried the Vauen pipes if they also carried the adapters and asking if they carried 1Q as I had yet to try it and was finding I actually could like aromatics. He could not find the price on the adapter and set up for the owner to give me a call when he came in on Monday. I am not entirely sure that they are to be sold separate from the pipes as the one he found was in a box with a pipe sock but no pipe in sight. He also was not certain if any of the blends they had in the store where actually 1Q and could not look it up as the stores computer was on the fritz.
At this point the fiance' realizes I am entering dangerous wallet devouring waters and drags me kicking and screaming to the chocolate apothecary just across the way. (yes that is the stores name and dear god the chocolate is amazing there both in taste and price) As we are waiting in line I can not get that little meer out of my head and sneak away to go and ask the price of it. I promptly return and begin to beg the fiance' to allow me to buy it without he killing me in my sleep for doing so.
She is surprisingly easily swayed on the grounds it is cute... and something that at the time did not sink in. She had said "It is something I could see myself smoking". Once we leave the premises she informs me that she wants to try out the pipe with the 1M Altadis that I has been smoking recently which she thinks smells wonderful. I of course cave to her request and am happily surprised when she greatly enjoys the little pipe and seems to begin falling for pipe smoking in general.
So I now have a new pipe that seems destined to be stolen by my dear lady and a bit of a quandary. How to help her through the usual stumbling blocks of learning to enjoy pipes. While still keeping her tongue and my pipes intact.
Here are some pictures of the little meer that started this all.
A question on the pipe for those of you more experienced with meerschaum pipes them myself. This is the first meer I have owned that has an acrylic mortise that screws into the shank along with an acrylic stem that plugs into it. I am curious if this will work like a military mount where I can take it apart after a smoke to clean it without damaging the fit of the stem.
Any advice on this and how to walk the fiance' through finding her own way to enjoy pipes would be greatly appreciated. I have had her join our little part of the internet as reddazes and I believe she has already created a post asking where to start on the forums.
I some how managed to distract myself by pestering the poor new guy working at the store. Asking him if seeing as they carried the Vauen pipes if they also carried the adapters and asking if they carried 1Q as I had yet to try it and was finding I actually could like aromatics. He could not find the price on the adapter and set up for the owner to give me a call when he came in on Monday. I am not entirely sure that they are to be sold separate from the pipes as the one he found was in a box with a pipe sock but no pipe in sight. He also was not certain if any of the blends they had in the store where actually 1Q and could not look it up as the stores computer was on the fritz.
At this point the fiance' realizes I am entering dangerous wallet devouring waters and drags me kicking and screaming to the chocolate apothecary just across the way. (yes that is the stores name and dear god the chocolate is amazing there both in taste and price) As we are waiting in line I can not get that little meer out of my head and sneak away to go and ask the price of it. I promptly return and begin to beg the fiance' to allow me to buy it without he killing me in my sleep for doing so.
She is surprisingly easily swayed on the grounds it is cute... and something that at the time did not sink in. She had said "It is something I could see myself smoking". Once we leave the premises she informs me that she wants to try out the pipe with the 1M Altadis that I has been smoking recently which she thinks smells wonderful. I of course cave to her request and am happily surprised when she greatly enjoys the little pipe and seems to begin falling for pipe smoking in general.
So I now have a new pipe that seems destined to be stolen by my dear lady and a bit of a quandary. How to help her through the usual stumbling blocks of learning to enjoy pipes. While still keeping her tongue and my pipes intact.
Here are some pictures of the little meer that started this all.
A question on the pipe for those of you more experienced with meerschaum pipes them myself. This is the first meer I have owned that has an acrylic mortise that screws into the shank along with an acrylic stem that plugs into it. I am curious if this will work like a military mount where I can take it apart after a smoke to clean it without damaging the fit of the stem.
Any advice on this and how to walk the fiance' through finding her own way to enjoy pipes would be greatly appreciated. I have had her join our little part of the internet as reddazes and I believe she has already created a post asking where to start on the forums.
