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What Makes Your Pipe So Special?
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<blockquote data-quote="Idlefellow" data-source="post: 499311" data-attributes="member: 598"><p>It's funny how your "special" pipe may not be the most expensive or even the best pipe in your rack. Mine is this gnarly old Hilson bent. I was in grad school; my new wife and I were in a crummy walk-up apartment in a not-so-good area of town, living on student loans and my meager graduate assistanceship and we didn't have the proverbial pot to you-know-what in. I'd seen this pipe and really liked it but at the time even buying tobacco was a luxury. But one night I came home and there it was on the table. I don't remember the price; probably not much by today's standards, but a lot to us then. My wife was not - and has never been - a big fan of smoking, but she just said something like, "I thought you deserved it." I knew then she was a keeper and a lot more than I deserved; 47 years later she's still proving me right.</p><p></p><p>This pipe has seen me through a lot of times - both good and bad - and I have to say I never remember it giving me a bad smoke. I've got more expensive pipes in my modest collection, and some that folks would see as "better", but if I had to get rid of my pipes this one would be the last one to go.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/JGopTDIl.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idlefellow, post: 499311, member: 598"] It's funny how your "special" pipe may not be the most expensive or even the best pipe in your rack. Mine is this gnarly old Hilson bent. I was in grad school; my new wife and I were in a crummy walk-up apartment in a not-so-good area of town, living on student loans and my meager graduate assistanceship and we didn't have the proverbial pot to you-know-what in. I'd seen this pipe and really liked it but at the time even buying tobacco was a luxury. But one night I came home and there it was on the table. I don't remember the price; probably not much by today's standards, but a lot to us then. My wife was not - and has never been - a big fan of smoking, but she just said something like, "I thought you deserved it." I knew then she was a keeper and a lot more than I deserved; 47 years later she's still proving me right. This pipe has seen me through a lot of times - both good and bad - and I have to say I never remember it giving me a bad smoke. I've got more expensive pipes in my modest collection, and some that folks would see as "better", but if I had to get rid of my pipes this one would be the last one to go. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/JGopTDIl.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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