I was at an Internet trade conference in San Francisco last week. I was somewhat high profile here, being in the show program as a speaker at three seminars over three days.
One night at one of the parties I ran into another pipe smoker. He had his pipe and tobacco with him, but this was a non-smoking hotel. We were trying to go out to the roof-top pool to smoke, but the door was locked as the pool closes at 10 pm.
So we lit up down this un-trafficked corridor .... and the fire alarm went off as we were still lighting up.
We stashed our pipes in our pockets, still burning, bolted for the elevator as a security guard immediately jumped out of it yelling, who is smoking up here!
We looked at him and said, "we have no idea". He ran down the hall to catch the smokers as we took the elevator down. We just made it to the lobby before the elevators were turned off and people were walking down the fire stairs.
Then we heard the fire truck sirens and thought, "are you f-ing kidding me?"
I think it lasted about a half hour.
Later I went to another party that was in a suite with a balcony. I lit up my pipe out there and someone immediately told me how cool and sophisticated I looked. If they only knew how uncool, and unsophisticated I looked about an hour prior, hiding from security and the fire department.
I guess that's not as bad as the guy that hid his kid in the attic and said he was trapped in a runaway balloon trying to get a reality show. Maybe I could get a "Pipe Smoking Adventures" reality show?
It was absurdly humorous, and way way over the top.
This thread will self destruct at some point soon.
One night at one of the parties I ran into another pipe smoker. He had his pipe and tobacco with him, but this was a non-smoking hotel. We were trying to go out to the roof-top pool to smoke, but the door was locked as the pool closes at 10 pm.
So we lit up down this un-trafficked corridor .... and the fire alarm went off as we were still lighting up.
We stashed our pipes in our pockets, still burning, bolted for the elevator as a security guard immediately jumped out of it yelling, who is smoking up here!
We looked at him and said, "we have no idea". He ran down the hall to catch the smokers as we took the elevator down. We just made it to the lobby before the elevators were turned off and people were walking down the fire stairs.
Then we heard the fire truck sirens and thought, "are you f-ing kidding me?"
I think it lasted about a half hour.
Later I went to another party that was in a suite with a balcony. I lit up my pipe out there and someone immediately told me how cool and sophisticated I looked. If they only knew how uncool, and unsophisticated I looked about an hour prior, hiding from security and the fire department.
I guess that's not as bad as the guy that hid his kid in the attic and said he was trapped in a runaway balloon trying to get a reality show. Maybe I could get a "Pipe Smoking Adventures" reality show?
It was absurdly humorous, and way way over the top.
This thread will self destruct at some point soon.
