Sharing Your Pipe

[easterntraveler]

Nope.

 

[dochudson]

A couple of drags for someone I know wouldn't be a big deal..

 

[jpmcwjr]

Never been asked, and I'd be inclined to pack a pipe and hand it to the asker. Yes, I'd happily smoke that pipe after he/she finished it, a thorough cleaning and a week in quarantine!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think of it as an excellent opportunity to explain that a sip off of a pipe is not going to even give you a notion of what smoking a pipe is like. The flavor builds, the effects build, and the whole idea of pipe smoking is taking it slow over the long haul, allowing the smoke to coat your mouth a sinuses. If we just walked up and sipped a pipe someone else was smoking, even if it was our favorite blend, we most likely wouldn't be able to identify it. It would just be nothing. To get any notion of what we are experiencing while smoking you just have to take the time to set down with a pipe and try it from start to finish. There are no short cuts. Well, actually there is a short cut, when pipe smokers of old wanted something quick, they rolled a cigarette. And as we know, smoking a cigarette is nothing like smoking a pipe.

 

[4ndrewjones]

Not too worried about the germs smoked plenty of estate finds before I learned how to properly clean thing!
I'm not sure a true gentleman would ask to try your pipe I certainly wouldn't put someone on the spot like that.

 

[fordm60]

I will with someone I am tight with. 8 years in the Airborne kinda changed my pre Military outlook on such things. We share everything at one time or another lol! But somebody I do not know, dislike, or I am not tight with, nope!

 

[ericthered]

I have 2 or 3 friends that I would share a pipe with, but everyone else would get a cob starter kit.

 

[stickframer]

Well said cosmic.

 

[echie]

Cosmic's excellent point aside, I have no problems letting people puff a pipe I'm currently smoking, if they're curious. On the few occasions when this happened, I quickly wiped the mouthpiece and ran a cleaner through the stem, before and after passing it on. More as a formality as anything else, I'm just not bothered by it.
But, perhaps most important of all, sharing a pipe is a private decision, and I think you (music4cash) did more was expected from you - a very classy solution.

 

[hiplainsdrifter]

I have no problem sharing a few puffs with good friends. Most have no idea how to puff though and try to drag the heck out of it. Not pleasant for them and typically kills the good bowl I had going.

 

[jkrug]

Nope...just nope! ::

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, such as in meals shared with friends, other social gatherings, I "share" her. Now if someone wants to have sex with my pipe, I draw the line there.
Seriously, I'd not hand over what I am smoking to anyone but my wifee, but would be happy to lend them a less used pipe for their trial.

 

[zack24]

I buy about 20 cobs a year strictly for guests that come over for ribs and are curious about a pipe....

I usually share my pipe with my wife when we fire one up....

 

[jpmcwjr]

Racist scumbag!
Please delete this.

 

[tinsel]

I'm wondering if any of you guys would share your pipe with someone.

I have had friends visit me who expressed interest in trying out a pipe and what I did was take one of my pipes, remove the stem, and sterilize the hell out of it with very, VERY high proof clear corn liquor. After they had their smoke, I repeated this sterilization process before returning the pipe to my rack.
I'm not the kind of person that usually worries much about germs and stuff. I figure a good cleaning with some really high proof liquor does the job well enough to not worry about it.
On a couple other occasions I allowed someone to take a couple puffs off of the pipe I was smoking. On all of these occasions, the person in question was female, cute, and single. I figured "Hey, I'm gonna kiss her if she'll let me. What's the difference".
I would never hand my pipe to another man to take a puff. Not that there's a difference as far as the germs go, but there's a psychological difference I just can't get past.

 

[mcitinner1]

The only people I ever heard of sharing a tobacco pipe is those half-witted buffalo jockeys passing around the peace pipe on their little reservations. Seeing as how those "people" lack the intellectual capacity and cultured refinement necessary to truly enjoy and savor a good pipe of tobacco, it's safe to say they don't know shit about smoking a pipe. I'd avoid anything those alcoholic dirt worshipers do, in spades.

People who are "refined and civilized" don't think like this, much less say it publicly.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

That was short lived, but maybe one of the most ironic personalities to come through like a flaming steam engine. Joins with the name "refinedandcivilized" and a few hours later insults as many groups of people as possible.
On topic: I probably wouldn't mind lending someone a pipe as long as I wipe it down with alcohol before and after, but as soon as I find a good woman, snuggling and sharing a nice bowl of Latakia sounds like good times.

 

[tinsel]

That was short lived, but maybe one of the most ironic personalities to come through like a flaming steam engine. Joins with the name "refinedandcivilized" and a few hours later insults as many groups of people as possible.

I didn't want to be the one to say it

 

[hawky454]

I only let me wife take a sip from my pipe when she's curious. She's only asked 2 or 3 times now.
Yes, I am aware that you could make several jokes from that statement.

 

[ravenwolf]

Over my cold, dead, withered body - after you extract the pipe from my rigor mortis kung fu action grip. Or you might just have to let me keep holding it for you while you smoke it, like I'm a Crypt-Keeper-muppet-pipe-sporting-Hugh-Hefner.
Next thing, you'll be wanting to borrow the wife too, yeah? :nana: