Is sharing really caring?

[SweetSmokeLover]

I've never smoked a pipe really around strangers, yet.... but once I was just lighting a cigar and a man walked by and practically grabbed the cigar out of my hand for a puff, which I refused to let him do. Some people can be so spitty on a cigar ewww lol

I wouldn't let a stranger take a puff off my cigar or pipe... but someone 'close' to me, I'd let have a puff or two. I'd worry too much about borrowing someone else's pipe and damaging it somehow and same with someone borrowing mine.

:bounce:

 

[jlong]

When asked to share, the healthy thing to do is blow him a nosehit.

Can we get a video demonstration? You may be on to something here.

Hell yea. Need to order some Five Brothers first.

 

[DirkT]

My older brother was over last week for a family dinner. I mentioned getting into pipe smoking again and he asked to see my pipes. I showed him my MM corncobs and my lone briar Savinelli. He picked up the briar and I told him not to stick it in his mouth.

So he sticks it in his mouth.

I was not amused.

 

[williamcharles]

This is my pipe. There are many like it but this one is mine. Without my pipe I am nothing. Without me my pipe is nothing. Keep yer paws off'a my Parker!

 

[Dutch]

I just simply tell them that last week my gums started bleeding, and I have an appointment with my dentist to have it seen about.

Reminds me of the time I had a man and his son show up and start hunting one of my favorite spots on a public hunting wildlife refuge. At one point in the conversation, I got around to telling them how I had hunted the area every afternoon, and hadn't seen any deer in over 2 weeks.

If you do it right, you won't ever see them again, let alone hear from them, and nobody get's their feelings hurt, because they think they are smarter than you are. :twisted:

 

[dshpipes]

I just simply tell them that last week my gums started bleeding, and I have an appointment with my dentist to have it seen about.

I like this solution. Simple and gets them off your back.

"Sure! Here have a puff. But just so you know, the herpese has been acting up."

 

[mike_68]

HA! Or like cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation - "You may wanna take a rain check, I have a lip fungus they haven't identified yet.."

 

[Kyle Weiss]

The white lie/deception thing works great for fishing holes, vacation spots and hunting areas, but with pipes? I just tell it like it is. If it's someone I like, I'd rather surprise them with a good cob and share my tobacco.

One time, I said exactly that to a person who I thought was cool but didn't know all too well:

"I'll bring the tobacco if you bring a pipe," I say as an invitation. I'll be damned if he didn't come back an hour later with a basket pipe and a Czech tool. I half expected him to think I was being coy and come with a glass pipe for some "wink-wink-nod-nod-somethin-somethin." Funny how people hear but don't listen, but shocking when they do both. 8)

...and one more taken in to the Church O' Briar.

 

[LIPIPE]

Absolutely not. I would never share my wife, nor my pipe. Learning to say no is an acquired behavior. The same goes for a guy's truck, his motorcycle and his guns. These are get your own Joe or eat your heart out.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Absolutely not. I would never share my wife, nor my pipe. Learning to say no is an acquired behavior. The same goes for a guy's truck, his motorcycle and his guns. These are get your own Joe or eat your heart out.

Aye. A guy's just gotta have his own personal effects.

 

[LIPIPE]

Kyle: He should enjoy them before they are his personal effects. By that time he is a dead man and then it is too late.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Come to think if it, I have a lot of dead guys' personal effects.

I suppose we don't own them, we just borrow them until the next guy gets 'em. 8) Hopefully for most of us there's some control to make sure the right guy gets 'em, too.

 

[Cigar2you]

I cant see sharing a pipe with a stranger it would just be uncomfortable. However that being said, I do have several friends that I will without hesitation say ths tobacco is incredible you have to taste it. I have found that tobacco tastes different depending on bowl shape, packing firmness, pipe material and with close friends it is great to explore these nuances.