Paranormal Pipe

[tuold]

Last night, around 1 am after returning home from work, I went to my "office" for a relaxing smoke. As I sat puffing with contentment and reading an old Aviation magazine there was a loud crack like a gunshot. Something ricocheted off a wall and landed on the carpet in front of me. It was a large chunk of glass from an ashtray sitting on top of a bureau a few feet away from my chair.
After I got my heart restarted I looked at the ashtray. It was completely shattered with most of the pieces still arranged in the general form of the ashtray. It was a round, amber colored one that sits in a wood bowl with a pipe stand on the side. A mound of pipe tobacco ash was undisturbed in the center of the wreckage. Not a bit of it was blown out of the broken bowl which is hard to imagine considering the force of the destruction.
That ashtray was at least 35 years old. I would think if it were going to break due to some internal stress it would have happened a long time ago.
But of course, I'm sure there is some natural, scientific explanation for this....... shiver

 

[mcitinner1]

Wow, and I have 4 of those same ashtrays. 8O

 

[mso489]

Poltergeist.

 

[tuold]

Maybe the ghost didn't like the "Old San Francisco" I had just lit up. I'll try an aromatic tonight

 

[wyfbane]

That is creepy. Sorry it broke your ashtray.

 

[aldecaker]

I love those old-school amber-glass ashtrays! They stir nostalgic feelings for me, just like the gold-foil, stamped metal Burger King ashtrays. 'Course, add to that the plaid-bottomed beanbag cigarette ashtrays and the big red barrel-shaped soda pitchers from your local corner pizza joint...sorry about your haunting, tuold, but thanks for bringing back some memories!

 

[tobyducote]

Bad smoke...I would try a different tobacco

 

[derfatdutchman]

Your pipe is probably ghosted, you'll have to exercise it with a new blend.
On a serious note that is very freaky.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Any music playing? (Sonic trip)
Any ET's around broadcasting on supersonic airwaves that might have tripped the ashtray??
(By trip in this case I mean that which caused the shattering, as in tripping a bomb. Oh, dear too many puns.)

 

[johnnyreb]

It's a pipergeist!

 

[warren]

It was an accident! Second time I've tried this out of body stuff. I'll be more careful in the future.

 

[agnosticpipe]

Sounds like another reason to wear a tin-foil hat while smoking!

 

[weezell]

Sounds like another reason to wear a tin-foil hat while smoking!

You mean you don't always wear one while smoking? Make sure you have tin foil over the TV because Obama is watchin you...

 

[cortezattic]

A rational, scientific explanation would be at least as incredible as a paranormal one. I'll go with the ghost thing. :puffpipe:

 

[buckaroo]

[/quote]It was an accident! Second time I've tried this out of body stuff. I'll be more careful in the future.

Hilarious.
Yeah, totally a ghost. It's well known that they don't like vintage ashtrays. Everything else is generally cool with them though. If it happens again then start worrying. Right place, right time.

 

[menuhin]

The ashtray crack is definitely a potential SETI message saying "Hey fellow, you are enjoying some good baccy!"

 

[tuold]

It's now ten mutes before 1 am. Not sure I want to go back out there right now 8O

 

[mso489]

A necklace of garlic often helps.

 

[tuold]

I'm taking my chances with Bigfoot in the backyard tonight.

 

[johnnyreb]

I'm not sure I'd want to go back out there either! He looks to be right out of the "Dead Man's Cellar".