Your first pipe smoking role model

[deathmetal]

This is separate from what it is to have a mentor, or someone who guides you through a process.
Instead, I'm talking about the first person you saw doing something and thought, "Hmm. Maybe for me, someday."
In my case, it was a history teacher. He loved his pipe between classes and smoked it constantly, puffing away in the courtyard. He had a nice pipe, from memory probably a Peterson or Dunhill, but smoked drug store tobacco. It smelled delicious however.
My brain filed that away for some time in the future... I often think of him, happy with his pipe, and wonder what tobacco it was.

 

[perdurabo]

My father

 

[jpmcwjr]

Dean of Students at Uni. He smoked Burlington Arcade and showed me how to order it- mail order! With snails. That was 50 years ago.

 

[aldecaker]

Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons. Man, that guy was a class act. I had relatives who smoked pipes, even my father, but Fred was the one who made it look glamorous to me.

 

[mcitinner1]

Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons. Man, that guy was a class act. I had relatives who smoked pipes, even my father, but Fred was the one who made it look glamorous to me.

My experience was just the same, but my Dad and uncles are who mostly fill my memories.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Gandalf.
Saw him puffing on his pipe in the Lord of the Rings movies and it made me want to try it.

 

[warren]

Mammy Yokum!

 

[derfatdutchman]

My Grandfather.

 

[warren]

Seriously! After some thought, I suppose it was a young soldier, airborne, who worked at the same summer camp I did. He smoked a pipe and drove a "bug eyed" Sprite with always a girl in the right seat. I was 15 and thoroughly impressed. I couldn't afford either the Austin or the pipe. Three years later, as a freshman, I remembered the girls he attracted and I could afford the pipe and tobacco. Thus it began.

 

[gloucesterman]

warren, I knew that guy but he drove a BRG TR-3. Always wondered what became of him.

 

[patiobum]

My Dad
Sir Walter Raleigh only

 

[warren]

I had a "Bondo" pink and primer gray TR3 for a while in the early '70s. I could never get the pot metal hinges on the "boot" to stay together and gave up restoring. I stopped the owner for no plates. He was moving it from one location to another. Instead of a citation I ended up paying him &500.00 for the car. Only traffic stop I ever made that cost me money.
I had great ideas for the car. None were realized and I sold it a year later for what I had in it. It's one regret in many.

 

[gloucesterman]

Don't you wish you had it now? They get big $$$ for them. I saw a pale yellow TR3 just the other day, brought back all sorts of memories of my misspent youth.

 

[aggravatedfarmer]

Old timers that farmed.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Uncle Leroy always had a pipe in his clench. There is not a single memory or picture without that pipe. He even slept on the porch with the pipe hanging in his mouth with a tooth hooked into a hole in the bottom of the bit. I also had two other uncles that smoked pipes, but they weren't as extreme. My dad also smoked a pipe for a few years, but he was too busy and ended up staying with cigarettes.

 

[smoothsailing]

Uncle Al & Pop

 

[12pups]

Huck Finn.

 

[hakchuma]

My uncle. He didn't say much, he just sat in his lazy boy and smokes a pipe while watching TV. As kids, we always made a big deal about how good his house smelled!

 

[plugugly]

Yeah, it was my Dad.
Plugugly

 

[macaroon]

An older fellow with an impressive beard walking around downtown during an art fair. I smelled the smoke first, a delectable caramel sort of scent, and looked everywhere for the source. He walked around a corner with his pipe, and found myself thoroughly surprised. I had no idea tobacco could smell like that, smell good. That was several years ago. Not so much a role model as the inspiration for my curiosity and interest.