Pipe Smoking Mishaps

[STP]

My at home attire is exclusively a hoodie and lounging pants, more or less modeling the Big Lebowski, which my family jokes about. Well, this evening my dog jumped up on me while finishing some overly dry holiday blend causing several embers to escape and land on my favorite loungewear resulting in burn holes?

Anyone else like to share some of their downfalls, accidents, etc., from smoking a pipe?

 

[olkofri]

Aside from accidentally hitting the shift gear knob when my hand was holding a churchwarden packed filled with cubed SG Navy Flake and spilling it all over the console and leaving the pipe empty, nothing really tragic has happened to me.

 

[wyfbane]

I have burn holes in two pairs of shorts. I was pretty upset when it happened to my seachicken shorts, but I've given up the NFL for xxxxxxxxx reasons so the sting has subsided.

 

[tschiraldi]

Okay, I'll play. I've posted this story in another post, but it will fit here nicely, I think.
My Dad smoked a pipe for years. When I was 5 or 6 years old, he was sitting in his recliner smoking his pipe. I kept bugging him and bugging him to let me try it. He finally gave in, saying "Fine! Here!" and handed me his pipe. Well, being a small child, the only pipe I ever had in my mouth was a bubble pipe, so I took his pipe and did what I had always done. I BLEW through the stem! Hot ash and tobacco went flying everywhere, on his lap, the chair, the floor. Dad yelled and swore, Mom chewed his ass! I just stood there dumbfounded.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Never overfill a pipe with cube cut tobacco. The cubes will jump out of the pipe when you light it and set your shirt on fire.

 

[Grangerous]

Big Lebowski, The Dude! Yeah, I think ? burn holes are inevitable.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Big Lebowski, The Dude! Yeah, I think ? burn holes are inevitable.

 

[username]

Burnt my the tip of thumb with my lighter a couple times but that’s about it.

 

[Jaylotw]

About the worst I’ve done is smoke some fish food. I didn’t wipe my fingers off apparently and packed a flake in there with my tobacco. There was no mistaking what it was once the ember touched it. I’ve also done the same with PB Blaster. That was pretty bad, too. I was stressed out.
I’ve also knocked pipes out of my mouth while setting the hook on fish. Another time I knocked my pipe into the river while netting a steelhead on a steep bank with a long handled net. The mesh was too large to net the pipe (plus it was filled with a thrashing 7lb trout) so I just kinda jammed it into the mud with the rim of the net, released the fish, and slid down to retrieve it. It was absolutely full of mud. I still smoke that pipe daily.
I don’t think I own a briar that hasn’t yet gone for a swim at some point.

 

[warren]

I don't know that I have work clothes without burn holes.

 

[danimalia]

I tend to over fill my pipes so jumping embers landing on clothes isn't uncommon. I have also dropped a couple of pipes and broke them in the past couple of months

 

[PipeDad33]

About the worst I’ve done is smoke some fish food. I didn’t wipe my fingers off apparently and packed a flake in there with my tobacco.

Fish food, I could only imagine what that tasted like. ??☠

 

[deadidunn]

Holes in my favorite Harley shirt, as well as couple more shirts. Dropped one of my Savinelli's that my wife gave me, but only sustained some dents in the briar.

I have distributed a newly open can of snuff due to driving and an uncontrolled sneeze when i was about to take a dip out of it. Truck was covered.

 

[anotherbob]

I was lighting my pipe one time and a strand of my hair blew into the pipe. That really ruined that particular smoke.

 

[Zack Miller]

When I was in the Navy on more than one occasion I stuffed a pipe that I thought was out into my pants pocket only to notice an intense heat on my thigh. The synthetic material was ruined. My CO was also a pipe smoker and his wife informed me that he had ruined several trousers by doing the same thing.

 

[aquadoc]

All I have to say is: never smoke naked!

 

[Zack Miller]

All I have to say is: never smoke naked!

Would you care to elaborate?

 

[Jaylotw]

Fish food, I could only imagine what that tasted like. ??☠

well, it tasted worse than it does when you just eat it. Ask me how I know.

 

[Zack Miller]

Fish food is, well, it’s just fish. I wonder if the fish realize they are cannibals.

 

[jpmcwjr]

No shirts ruined as I wear mostly cotton ones. But synthetic jackets! They all have some pinholes in them. Plus a few snapped tenons. Pretty lucky overall!