PAD Conundrum -- No Answer Here

[mso489]

I have all the pipes I need. You know this is true when the pipe you want is today's version of a pipe I bought 30 plus years ago and still smoke. It's like, I want to repeat the experience. I've been tempted by this for some time. Now it's on sale for about $60, for a pipe offered for $73 or $80 elsewhere, claimed MSRP $100. I splurged at the pipe show in April, and need no pipes. We'll see what happens. Don't know if I'd be happier with a guilty pleasure or the sweet light of reason.
Now to go pick up my new lawn mower and fight back the jungle that has grown up in the meantime. Trying a Honda instead of a Briggs and Stratton after a big disappointment with the latest B&S.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Don't know if I'd be happier with a guilty pleasure or the sweet light of reason.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Buy the pipe!

 

[huntertrw]

mso489:
Allow me to second piesmokingtom's motion: Buy the pipe!
In the meantime if my experience is any guide, then you should be well-pleased with your new Honda mower. Just don't do what I did and forget to check the oil-level before each use. Mine seized-up for lack of thereof!

 

[jamesrsmithjr]

"and need no pipes."
SLOWLY, back away from the keyboard, take a deep breath and come back to reality... Cut the grass then order the pipe, all will then be right with the earth...
Did I really NEED my third Pete System 303?

 

[mso489]

Guys, thanks for your support of my bad habits. The mower is home from Ace Hardware, bought online. They put it together and started it to make sure, unlike Lowes where you get it in a box and you load the box in the car yourself. I think I'm headed for the pipe, if they won't pull the sale price on me.

 

[tennsmoker]

Buy the pipe, mso. Repeat, buy the pipe. Smoke, and repeat.

 

[danielplainview]

Need? No. Must have? Yes.

 

[newbroom]

Every now and then it refreshes us to get a new pair of shorts. I still wear t-shirts that are 30 yrs old that I bought in a thrift store.

It's only money. Don't spend too much time worrying about it.

Either you have it or you don't,

you will or you won't.

You feel the need,

there's the light,

it's just a matter of how bright?

 

[newbroom]

So...I hadn't padded my rotation, nor expect to do so, for awhile. I don't smoke all the pipes I already have.

I keep looking though, and this a.m. I saw a pipe that said 'buy me'. Its value to me is its history, but I actually expect it to be returned to service. It's ugly, but old. Ever been there?

I figured for $29.00 and under $5.00 for shipping it was worth a shot. C.P.F.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Can you say "patina"?! I think you got a fine deal, and many happy bowls will come your way.

 

[newbroom]

The thing is about 200 years old, if it's what I think it is.

I'll get it up and running.

 

[mso489]

newbroom, that one will be a looker with the dust of time buffed away. Nice find.

 

[newbroom]

Thanks,

mso489, the stem is crude as heck, and has the orific (?) draft @ button along with being 'unfinished'.

It's probably a 200 yr old pipe with a 160 yr old replacement stem! 8O

 

[mso489]

Well, I done the deed. Here's a link, but this isn't what I paid. It's from one of our other sponsors, PC, for $59.99. Another online retailer, not our sponsor, wants $80. Such is life. I just have a "thing" for this shape. One of my oldest pipes is the Sav unfinished version, now golden walnut from years of use and polishing.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/rossi/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=195621