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Pipe Smokers Etiquette
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Let's be crystal clear... only Chasingembers wants to be left alone. He hates the word hobby, because he chews chaw and smokes cigarettes while smoking his pipes, and looking for people to shoot and kill. I recommend we all just keep your distance from him.
I, however, have been known to drive for 8 hours just to smoke a pipe with someone from the forum. I've met and befriended dozens of you guys. I consider this a hobby, because I don't just see tobacco as a "fix". However, I do know that I am addicted, but I don't whore up on Lady Nicotine with every old nasty cigarette or chuck a chaw and spit nasty black goo into an empty Mt Dew can.
I do love meeting people. NOWHERE in this thread have I said that I don't. I thought that a list like this could be fun and informative, because in the past guys have been like... "I saw my first other pipesmoker in a parkinglot and ran at him while trying to get my pipe going, but he got away and looked panic'd and frightened."
Or, "when I set next to a pipesmoker and start asking how to do this and that and the other, he got up and moved away from me.
This is a list of etiquette that might help neophytes understand how what they are doing is stupid and running people away. Just because you would love to have someone run up to you to show you his pipe, while you are in the middle of trying to get home with those damned eggs you wife made you go get... doesn't mean that everyone else would.
I may be just setting there enjoying my first bowl of a circa 2001 McClellands Pebblecut that I have been looking forward to for years, and finally popped it, and along comes some neophyte asking me how to tamp, how to light, how to... wanna taste my tobacco... like a 5 year old showing off a new toy truck.
AS A PIPESMOKER, SURELY YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHEN A MAN WANTS TO FOCUS AND TASTE THE FAVORS HE HAS BEEN LOOKING FORWARDTO ALL DAY OR FOR YEARS. Right? So, understand if in your excitement to see and meet a pipesmoker in the wild, maybe approach like you would a deer grazing in a field. Test the waters, check the direction of the wind. He might just want to talk also. Maybe it is one of the many times he is just smoking some Carter Hall, and doesn't mind talking. Just don't run up and start fondling a man's pipe. Get it?
Bruh, you need to come down to WNC for a minute, just for the... uh... cultureshock. That's pretty much every discussion with a stranger here, regardless of if there's a tobacco pipe involved.?
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Sure, makes sense to me - that's just personal preference. I would feel odd myself being approached on the street unless I am really in the mood for a conversation. I was just pointing out that it doesn't always boil down to whether one's a "hobbyist" or "smoker", but rather personal preference in most cases.No, Chasingembers wants to be left alone. Me, I gave a whole list of etiquette for approaching me. I never said “leave me alone.” Just don’t run at me fast choo chooing, or trying to buy my pipe, or asking to hold my pipe, or begging me to try your tobacco. Other than that, approach, and we’ll talk about the weather or something.
I was thinking about reopening Purgatory.....................?
Bingo!
Do Not : Ask the stranger for a hit off his pipe then pull up your underwear waistband and wipe off the stem with your undies. It makes people made. On the upside, I did get a few free pipes that way. On the down side, I got punched twice.
When I was in hospital a couple of years ago for a week, I regularly sat outside puffing on my pipe with the cigarette smokers. [A Catholic run public/private hospital that, unlike State run public hospitals, want to keep patients safe so they 'turn a blind eye' to patients smoking outside the wards]
When sitting with a few smokers one patient said "I wouldn't mind trying a puff on Choppers pipe."
To which I responded "Would you also like to borrow my toothbrush?"
It's not a bong for goodness sake.
[Note to self; signs of anti-social tendencies] ?
I've struck up many conversations over the years with those reading a book or newspaper.
Even met a few lovely girls that way. [They all remarked how refreshing it was to be asked intelligent questions about their books rather than ones like what bar do they frequent]
If reading a book I ask "What are you reading? Any good?"
Or if reading a newspaper "Anything worth hearing?" [in the newspaper]
It's rather obvious by their response if they'd rather be left in peace to read.
I can't recall a rude response ever to my question. But then again, if it's obvious they'd rather be reading I leave them be.
This is hilarious. I haven’t smoked in public actually and prefer my backyard. If was was out and about, I could imagine someone asking me to hold my pipe. That gives me the creeps.
I saw my first fellow piper in the wild the other day at the tire change place. My first thought was to hurry up and load a bowl and blow smoke rings in his direction but then better judgment took over and I just went about my own business.
Was sitting on the front porch having my bowl of the day few days ago. I actually had an old lady waved at me. That was pleasant. Soon after that, a bunch of young ladies with baby strollers gave me a collective side eyes as if I was the reason for the climate change. Must be the generation gap.
When they see a type with an old cushion, smoking in a pipe talking alone. For example?
I haven't read all 11 pages of this thread because I am in disbelief that @cosmicfolklore is giving etiquette lessons now.
And reluctantly his notions about the real estate market.
I'd call it more like his druthers. After all, it's good etiquette to respond to questions from a stranger, even if inconvenient.
And I kinda think this thread is dead as to the original topic.
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