What’s That You’re Smoking?

[Briar Lee]

On my way back from court I drove through a McDonald’s smoking a Benchmade full of Borkum Riff Cherry and at the pickup window the girl, twentysomething, smiled and beamed and asked —

What’s that you’re smoking?

What is that, I’ve never seen one?

I smiled back and said it’s a pipe, old gray haired men like me used to smoke them all the time when I was your age.

She grinned and said that really smells good,,,..

Where could I buy my boyfriend one of those?

It was $10 on ebay, but I said they sell pipes on Amazon.




And I remembered why a man who looked just like Charlie Rich in Springfield Missouri was the largest selling CAO meerschaum dealer on earth thirty some years ago.

Who bought all the Marxman pipes, for whom, I wonder?

 

[El Capitán]

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Love the story! But I’d probably not point her to Amazon with all the cheap crap pipes they sell there :/

 

[El Capitán]

Love the story! But I’d probably not point her to Amazon with all the cheap crap pipes they sell there :/

My first pipe was an Amazon Chinese made crap. Luckily it wasn't a bad smoker or I'd probably not be here.

 

[bullet08]

You should have told her "unlike the other stuff, it's almost illegal".

 

[didimauw]

Love the story! But I’d probably not point her to Amazon with all the cheap crap pipes they sell there :/

I think they sell Savinelli pipes too.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

I think they sell Savinelli pipes too.

Yeah they do, along with other quality brands, but I doubt a girlfriend who is working fast food is going to choose anything iver 50 bucks when there’s tons of cheap crap for less than 20 :/

Or maybe I’m wrong and I’m just a cynical old bastard lol

 

[Briar Lee]

My mother was a beautiful woman, all her 84 years, and our birthdays were three days apart in April, hers first.

On her seventieth birthday in April 1996 she called me just gushing on her birthday.

She said she got up early and went to Bolivar and picked out a brand new dress and new shoes, had her hair done, and was hungry and stopped by a Kentucky Fried Chicken in her new 1996 Thunderbird.

As she walked in she said a very handsome man who could not possibly have been fifty opened the door for her and smiled, and he wasn’t feeling sorry for an old lady, either.

She said it just made her day, but it made her feel sorry for me.

I asked why she felt sorry for me, and she said if you don’t smoke yourself to death you’ll live to have your seventieth birthday in 32 more years.

Mama said she had enough good sense to know that handsome young man would not be happy with her for very long at all.

But a man is such a vain, damned fool when you’re seventy and a forty year old woman smiles at you, you’ll think she always will.

 

[OzPiper]

But a man is such a vain, damned fool when you’re seventy and a forty year old woman smiles at you, you’ll think she always will.

The scales fell off my eyes years ago
I’m a tad over 70.
And have not had a 40yo woman smile at me that way in yonks
And if it happens, I’d be very suspicious