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wulfheard

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 18, 2018
107
199
New Jersey
It’s very literally true. She’ll flat tell you off if you’re “one of hers.” Tough lady. Lived through the depression, authentic Tennessee country girl :)

She’s a hoot! Most people like her immediately. ?

Oh, it’s not every call, but if she happens to think about it I’ll “get it.” ?

That's one of the redeeming things about getting truely old,....you get to take your filter off line permanently and get away with it.
 

hauntedmyst

Lifer
Feb 1, 2010
4,011
20,780
Chicago
People who tell me something is 'Just down the road' when it's fecking 30 miles away!


Oh you've met my wife! For her, everything which a 20 mile radius is "a few blocks away"

And is there anything better than the wife calling you to tell you she will be home in a few minutes? Thanks honey, I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and I probably wouldn't have put two and two together when you walked in the door so I appreciate the heads up. If you walk in and my eye is twitching and I otherwise seem frozen, that's just me having an aneurysm from contemplating female communication dynamics.
 

condorlover1

Lifer
Dec 22, 2013
8,504
30,133
New York
People who knock on my door on a Sunday morning when I might be busy appreciating my hang over and then proceed to ask me 'Have you found the Lord?'. As a good practicing RC I always delight in debating theology with these doorstep bible punchers. After about thirty minutes they tend to realize that they are out gunned and refuse my invitation to step inside so we can really get the conversation on a more advanced level.
 

olkofri

Lifer
Sep 9, 2017
8,166
14,983
The Arm of Orion
People who knock on my door on a Sunday morning when I might be busy appreciating my hang over and then proceed to ask me 'Have you found the Lord?'. As a good practicing RC I always delight in debating theology with these doorstep bible punchers. After about thirty minutes they tend to realize that they are out gunned and refuse my invitation to step inside so we can really get the conversation on a more advanced level.
When I was in high school, I had a math teacher, also RC (like yours truly), who did likewise, except the pushers there did accept his invitation to come in and debate. They were at it for weeks. When the troopers were outgunned, they brought in an 'elder', who ended up being routed too. As the elder and his minion(s) were leaving he said to my teacher, in a tone which I only imagine was a mixture of smugness, frustration, threat, and ominousness, "well, we tried hard for your salvation but you chose condemnation". Unfazed, my teacher replied, "it also says in the Bible that during the endtimes there will be many false prophets trying to lead the flock astray. Ever wondered if those guys are yourselves?"

Hilarious!
 

condorlover1

Lifer
Dec 22, 2013
8,504
30,133
New York
I had a room mate who put a Mezuzah up on our door frame when the building we lived in on Maiden Lane had a particularly virulent out break of 'Religions that knock on your door' and that seemed to work wonders with those people who try and flog that paper called The Watch Tower.
 

bmdfm

Lurker
Jan 13, 2013
40
95
Newport, New Hampshire
ctbill, the old man association with tobacco pipes is a mixed blessing. Though not related to pipes per se, the renowned singer/songwriter Tom Waits started talking and acting like an old guy when he was in his twenties, and not just an old guy, a poor down-and-out guy. His explanation was that the old guys got to wear all the cool hats. Experience and a kind of battered wisdom is not altogether unappealing, it seems.
Man, I just love Tom Waits and I really love that early persona he had going on back then.
 
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