You Know You Are a Confirmed Pipe Smoker When...

[pipestud]

I know we've done this before but when I discovered this on my right thumb, I just had to share:
You know you are a confirmed pipe smoker when you discover a thick callous developing on your thumb where you flick your lighter's flint strike wheel.

 

[orobusto]

You know you are a confirmed pipe smoker when you're potty training your son and tell him to wipe the rim and don't leave dottle in the bowl.

 

[warren]

... when your tampers/fingers become insensitive to heat.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

...when your family can track you down by following the trail of spent matches and ashy covered things that you've used as tamps.

 

[jpmcwjr]

When you can't see the TV screen through the smoke and haze in your smoking room....

 

[dino]

...when your shirts and sweaters are polka-dotted with tiny burn holes.

 

[edwinbaz]

...when tobacco starts informing your pallate. "Hmmm. This fricassee could use some more bright virginia. Thyme! I meant thyme!"

 

[cigrmaster]

When you are falling asleep, you reach for the pipe in your mouth that is not there.

 

[briarblues]

When the first things you pack prior to going out or on a trip, are pipes, tobacco, cleaners, a tamper and lighter or matches..

 

[prairiedruid]

When you are considering replacing your stove and convert the price into how many tins of tobacco you could buy instead.

 

[mso489]

When you have a slight sense of surprise to discover a pipe you forgot you owned.

 

[mrenglish]

When you buy pipe cleaners by the case.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

When You are not having tongue bite anymore.

 

[mso489]

When someone who has never seen you smoke a pipe asks if you smoke, and you say you smoke a pipe, and they break out in a big smile and say, "Of course!"

 

[cigrmaster]

Steve, I used to have that callous in the same place as yours. I got rid of it when I changed my Old Boy out for a IM Corona Pipemaster. The electronic ignition keeps my thumb soft and supple so when I use it on some 2 dollar crack whore, I don't rough her up.

 

[admiral]

...when your family can track you down by following the trail of spent matches and ashy covered things that you've used as tamps.

Buahahhahhaha
So it is not only me doing all this

 

[jaytex1969]

When you have a slight sense of surprise to discover a pipe you forgot you owned.

I was recently thinking I'd like to have a prince shaped pipe.
While reorganizing my stash to integrate the $20 Stanwell pipes, I found a paneled prince I had completely forgotten about getting. Hell, I don't even remember WHERE I got it.
This after only 8 months into the pipe scene. I can only imagine how bad it will be after 10 years....

 

[tschiraldi]

When you and your wife have to drive somewhere together and you tell her we have to take her car, because she doesn't have a seat in yours. "Ahem... that's not your seat. That's my pipes and tobaccos seat."

 

[james72]

...when fashioning a throne out of Dunhill tins suddenly becomes "a reasonable thing to do" next weekend.

 

[derekflint]

When your with your wife looking at a home you might be buying and all your thinking about is the best places to smoke...deck, garage, basement etc.... :puffpipe: