Your First Smoke

[Capt Morgan]

I am not sure what age I was, but I remember vividly, it was Christmas and the extended family was all at my great-uncle's house. There was a smoking table in the same room as the tree and presents that the older adults were sitting at. They were all smoking pipes and were passing a tin around of some blend. It smelled like eggnog and spice cake to me, and I wanted to try it. At a moment when (I thought) no one was looking I grabbed the first pipe I saw still smoking and just pulled away at it, having no idea what I was doing, inhaled most of it. Now, I am not sure of the face I made, but I heard everyone close by start to laugh. I felt like my nose was going to jump off my face, my eyes watered up, and my tongue felt like it had been stepped on. My exhale was nothing short of torture but for a brief moment I taste something Devine.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Whoa! That's a shitload of hay. As they say, "Hay today, gone tomorrow."

 

[ashdigger]

Whoa! That's a shitload of hay. As they say, "Hay today, gone tomorrow."

There were four other stacks just like that one that burned. That’s a metric shit load.

 

[smknron]

I'll never forget it. Wish I had a picture of it, but then again, we probably would have been skinned lol. One Saturday, pretty sure it was, my brother and I decided to make pipes from some hardwood he found in our dads shop. His pipe was almost done as I walked up on him asking what he was up to. They were cut in a rectangular tapered shape and well sanded with no kind of finish. The bowl and draft drilled with one of those hand geared drills that you would see in a 1920's sears catalogs. We got a couple of lucky strike cigs and broke them up, and I remember my brother laughing so hard when I tried smoking mine I think the smoke came out my ears. Great times remembered. I was right around 10 yrs old, my brother was 12

 

[olkofri]

No, but I do have a mental picture of my mum fuming in the kitchen as she saw my father letting me sip from his cigar.