But they locked down a good domain. This is where we can post the nagging other provide us with for the evil tobacco habit we have. My wife really hates that a smoke a pipe...it's not healthy. I'm pretty much a weekend piper anyhow. No idea why she complains about it.
Fellow Buckeye @Londy3 -- No two ways about it: smoking anything gives you gorilla breath. And popping an Altoid doesn't fix the problem. Clothes can be a problem, too. Folks may "cotton" to a fine aromatic clothes reek, but for non-smokers Latakia and Perique blends can be ...uh...off-putting. In between my two pipe lives and before NJ banned smoking in restaurants and my favorite Irish pub, I used to come home from a night out with SWMBO and we both would joke about wanting to burn our clothes. A shower and hair washing was required before getting into bed. I would fantasize about carrying a squirt gun full of cat urine: You make me stink / I make you stink. Fair is fair.
@motie2, certainly! There was an episode of the podcast in which Beau York quipped about, the need for a matchmaking site tailored for pipe smokers. And being that we have thispipelife.com there should be a thispipewife.com. It has been a constant piece of banter and humor in the radio program since.
@motie2, I do hear what yer sayin and agree. I have to admit, when I go outside, sit down, set my drink down and get all comfortable...then whip out my pipe, I start feeling like a criminal. I look side to side and light. Ugh, why? Again, I'm not a smoker, never was a smoker and I hate cigarettes. Just feel like I need to hide so people don't see me when I want to puff on a bowl.
@Londy3 -- Both my folks were heavy smokers. I grew up hating it as soon as I was old enough to know that in the winter, riding in the car with my folks, I stank. I also had croup all through childhood. I have never smoked a cigarette. (Well, not a tobacco cigarette <giggle> ). I hate the smell of cigarette smoking. 1968 to 1984 SWMBO tolerated smoking in the house and I was smoking English/Orientals and VaPers. When I took up the pipe at the end of summer 2016 she was not pleased; neither did she forbid. But it had to be outside. I've never met another pipe smoker here. I sit on the back deck or do my yard chores and smoke as I please.... outside. Getting hot and sweaty is a great time to smoke, as one shower kills two birds. The neighbors have commented favorably on what I'll call "The Sutliff Smell," when I burn a bowl. Makes me feel exotic.
But I know I smell when I'm done smoking. I expect that some of us regard pipe tobacco as beard freshener, so this is all subject to personal interpretation.
Beard freshener for sure......I love the aroma "after glow' on my beard and stache. It makes me less sad after a normally great smoke, reminding me of better times just finished. My wife is NOT a fan of any smoke evidence at all as she grew up in a home of smokers. I DO NOT smoke indoors to make her happy (or maybe so she does not get mad). I once with her permission smoked in my basement workshop, but she said she could smell it so that option was 86'd.
I get to do all the repairs on mostly antique furniture my daughter gets for her little business. Today I had to repair a maple desk and a mahogany chair. They took about 2 1/2 hours so i had time for 2 bowls while I worked. I think no matter what you have to do, it can be done better wife a pipe in your mouth, and some good music in your ears. Makes work seem like a pleasure. The resultant residual olfactory evidence of time spent prior to that with my pipe and tobacco just reinforces my desire to do it again.
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I'm pretty much a weekend piper anyhow. No idea why she complains about it.
And popping an Altoid doesn't fix the problem.
Clothes can be a problem, too. Folks may "cotton" to a fine aromatic clothes reek, but for non-smokers Latakia and Perique blends can be ...uh...off-putting.
In between my two pipe lives and before NJ banned smoking in restaurants and my favorite Irish pub, I used to come home from a night out with SWMBO and we both would joke about wanting to burn our clothes. A shower and hair washing was required before getting into bed. I would fantasize about carrying a squirt gun full of cat urine: You make me stink / I make you stink. Fair is fair.
But I know I smell when I'm done smoking.
I expect that some of us regard pipe tobacco as beard freshener, so this is all subject to personal interpretation.
Beard freshener for sure......I love the aroma "after glow' on my beard and stache. It makes me less sad after a normally great smoke, reminding me of better times just finished. My wife is NOT a fan of any smoke evidence at all as she grew up in a home of smokers. I DO NOT smoke indoors to make her happy (or maybe so she does not get mad). I once with her permission smoked in my basement workshop, but she said she could smell it so that option was 86'd.
I get to do all the repairs on mostly antique furniture my daughter gets for her little business. Today I had to repair a maple desk and a mahogany chair. They took about 2 1/2 hours so i had time for 2 bowls while I worked. I think no matter what you have to do, it can be done better wife a pipe in your mouth, and some good music in your ears. Makes work seem like a pleasure. The resultant residual olfactory evidence of time spent prior to that with my pipe and tobacco just reinforces my desire to do it again.
Yours are words of wisdom; words to live by. Thank you.
EDITED OBSERVATION: Your original quote has "wife" for "with." Interesting typo?