Saw Another One

[cosmicfolklore]

I wish the rest of you guys could think it is no big deal to look over at the car or truck next to you in traffic and see someone smoking a pipe... like me. It's fairly normal here for me. Two guys just setting on a bench at the Mall, smoking pipes and looking at their iPhones. It is actually weirder if one starts asking pipe weird pipe related questions, and signifies that I should just get up and move. Things like, "what kind of pipes do you like?" You know, questions that require me to ask questions to figure out what they are asking. A real pipesmoker would just know that asking a pipesmoker to remove his pipe to converse is just not cool.

 

[Hillcrest]

Two guys just setting on a bench at the Mall, smoking pipes and looking at their iPhones.

My only question would be rhetorical "Hey ... we can smoke here ???!!!"

 

[hawky454]

I met a pipe smoker in the wild once. He was a security guard for the building where I previously worked. He approached me and said, “I knew I smelled Latakia!”. From then on we shared blends and traded almost every time we met up, he turned me on to Mac Baren Scottish Mixture. I see other pipe smokers from time to time but they are usually 20 to 30 years older than me. I’ll still talk to them if the opportunity arises. The older folks don’t seem surprised to see another pipe smoker in the wild, at least not as much as the younger ones.

 

[canucklehead]

I wish the rest of you guys could think it is no big deal to look over at the car or truck next to you in traffic and see someone smoking a pipe... like me. It's fairly normal here for me. Two guys just setting on a bench at the Mall, smoking pipes and looking at their iPhones. It is actually weirder if one starts asking pipe weird pipe related questions, and signifies that I should just get up and move. Things like, "what kind of pipes do you like?" You know, questions that require me to ask questions to figure out what they are asking. A real pipesmoker would just know that asking a pipesmoker to remove his pipe to converse is just not cool.

Well where I live I've seen more people walking down the street smoking 3-foot glass bongs than I have people smoking a tobacco pipe out in public. I've only seen 3 or 4 pipe smokers.

Several people I know have pipes, they keep them in places like gun safes or filing cabinets, and their wives let them smoke once or twice a year when they go camping with the guys. Never in public, and of course never daily like some kind of addict.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My only question would be rhetorical "Hey ... we can smoke here ???!!!"

It's Alabama, pipes are allowed pretty much everywhere.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It's Alabama, pipes are allowed pretty much everywhere.

Kentucky is fairly tobacco friendly as well.

 

[Hillcrest]

It's Alabama, pipes are allowed pretty much everywhere.

In Connecticut, anything, somewhere, is going to eventually offend somebody ...just wait 10 mins. !

 

[cosmicfolklore]

In Connecticut, anything, somewhere, is going to eventually offend somebody ...just wait 10 mins. !

In Alabama, if I were to walk around without a pipe, everyone would want to stop and talk. We are all pretty friendly, but a pipe in clench is the universal symbol for "don't talk to me, I'm focused on smoking."

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Oh, and if you should happen to see a no smoking sign, if you ask, they'll let you know that the sign is pointless and it would exclude pipes anyways.

 

[Hillcrest]

Oh, and if you should happen to see a no smoking sign, if you ask, they'll let you know that the sign is pointless and it would exclude pipes anyways.

past time to move !

 

[Singularis]

My 21 year old son is now taking up the pipe (with my tobacco, lol) because he is trying to quit vaping.

Perhaps this is part of a growing trend?

 

[ADKPiper]

What percentage of sighting are smoking weed?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

What percentage of sighting are smoking weed?

From whom? I don't think I've ever seen anyone smoking weed. As far as I know, I've never even been in the same room with an illicit drug.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Lane's 1Q, or as they named it in a pipe shop I once visited, "Ladies Love It".

I like 1Q and Lane's RLP-6 as well. I usually keep a little bit of one of them on hand for times when I'm in the mood for an aromatic. Never had any luck with the ladies when smoking it though. LOL Good thing because I'm going on 24 years of marriage, so if at any point it would have worked my wife would have killed me. LOL

 

[Searock Fan]

I wish the rest of you guys could think it is no big deal to look over at the car or truck next to you in traffic and see someone smoking a pipe... like me. It's fairly normal here for me. Two guys just setting on a bench at the Mall, smoking pipes and looking at their iPhones. It is actually weirder if one starts asking pipe weird pipe related questions, and signifies that I should just get up and move. Things like, "what kind of pipes do you like?" You know, questions that require me to ask questions to figure out what they are asking. A real pipesmoker would just know that asking a pipesmoker to remove his pipe to converse is just not cool.

I would think a "real" pipe smoker would be able to smoke and talk at the same time.... but that's just me.

 

[Searock Fan]

I like 1Q and Lane's RLP-6 as well. I usually keep a little bit of one of them on hand for times when I'm in the mood for an aromatic. Never had any luck with the ladies when smoking it though. LOL Good thing because I'm going on 24 years of marriage, so if at any point it would have worked my wife would have killed me. LOL

If you like 1Q, then another Lane aromatic to try is TK6. Personally, I find it a better smoke than 1Q.

 

[Jaylotw]

In Alabama, if I were to walk around without a pipe, everyone would want to stop and talk. We are all pretty friendly, but a pipe in clench is the universal symbol for "don't talk to me, I'm focused on smoking."

I was just in Alabama two months ago.

Everyone there is exceedingly friendly and jovial. I've never had so many jokes and smiles shared while pumping gas or grabbing a coffee or whatever. Everyone's just so damn nice.

I think it's cause all your brains are half melted from the heat.

 

[Jaylotw]

I think we don't see more pipe smokers in the wild because we don't really show it off. We just smoke a pipe and get on with it.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

If you like 1Q, then another Lane aromatic to try is TK6. Personally, I find it a better smoke than 1Q.

Stopped by the tobacco shop today, and picked up a couple ounces of 1Q and Capt. Black. LOL

 

[coldsnap888]

What percentage of sighting are smoking weed?

Got asked this yesterday... was on the balcony smoking Wild Anatolia and my neighbour remarks "you are smoking a pipe!" (fair point- I am usually seen with a cigar) and then asks if it is tobacco or something else "because it doesn't smell like tobacco".