Pipe Novelist Blog: Dealing With Stigmas and Stereotypes

[dhizzy]

Hey Eric, Great job on the article. I am a relatively private guy so I don't net alot of comments because I do most of my smoking at home. I mostly get the Sherlock/ old man comments from friends and family. The most public I usually get to smoke is in my car. I have gotten a couple of looks while driving though and have been waiting to get pulled over or something. As a LEO myself I find that laughable. I can recall as a younger officer who was not a smoker at the time seeing someone smoking a pipe, the thought to stop and detain based upon that alone never crossed my mind. Again, great work my friend!

 

[riptide]

Great read.

 

[baronsamedi]

You got that right, Spartan! ::

 

[ohin3]

@ cyndi: I apologize for the penis bearing creatures that, simply due to anatomy, are referred to as men. So sad.

 

[reichenbach]

The guys without beards aren't spies, their beards just hadn't grown in yet!

 

[reichenbach]

Now, with that said, I'll need everyone's names, first and last, for my report, err, database, umm, I'm not a spy ::runs out the door::

 

[ocpsdan]

My beard is just, erm, sleeping :?
At any rate, being the wet-behind-the-ears-young-un that people seem to view me as, working in a B+M I get asked that quite often by people who don't know me enough to know that I love pipes. They ask, I grin, replying, "Crack Cocaine." And just leave it there. :lol: Typically if people ask me an obviously stupid question, they will get a stupid answer in return.
The conversation usually turns to them leaving with a boatload of unsolicited knowledge about the pipe; I talk them right out the door.

 

[taerin]

After a mountain biking ride I lit up with my pipe and within 10 seconds there was someone asking me if I was smoking weed and the rest in my group stared at me like I had two heads. I just laughed it off and had a good time anyways. I do feel very self-aware though when I have it out in public, not because people smoke weed from pipes, but because so many people have a problem with smoking in general.
I am one of those people sometimes, if someone smells like cigarette smoke, I don't want to be anywhere near them, some people just smell aweful (and I have a very weak sense of smell). As a rule I don't smoke a heavy latakia blend right before work because I don't want people to smell it on me either (I do customer service), although most of that smell is because some cigarette users inhale it many many times a day.

 

[cajunguy]

Someone asked me that question in public before; the, "got weed in that pipe?" question.
I quickly shot back that I'd rather stuff dog s#%t in my pipe and smoke it. That shut them up. His friend laughed at him. Mission accomplished.
Apologies to those who enjoy the wacky 'baccy. I actually have no opinion one way or another on the stuff. I just wanted to say something blunt to make said person look like an ass. :twisted: