TEA TIME, INCLEMENT WEATHER, TRUTH

Lunch (breakfast), as you would expect, involved Sriracha hotsauce. Which is a fundamental condiment that no kitchen should be without. If it weren't for me, there would be no hot sauce in this apartment I share with another person, and in fact it might not ever smell pleasantly of chilipeppers, curry, or fish sauce, on ocassion. It might not even smell of lemon grass or galangal. Or very faintly of pipe tobacco. It would smell like her room. Clean.

Much of the time I smoke outdoors. Even on rainy days like today.

One has to show a certain amount of consideration for others.

It's bad enough that I smoke. But it is an excellent thing to let the place air out for several hours before a non-smoker returns home. Which is an hour or so after tea time, so after one o'clock one goes outside to indulge. Or in the early morning before she leaves for the day.
Sometimes smokers can be decent human beings.

The pipe shown in the drawing above is one I restored quite a while back. The previous owner had caked and tarred it up over the years, chewed through the stem, and horribly abused the poor dear. Conceivably, as a human being, he left some things to be desired.

I've never understood people who maltreat their briars. If you treat it well and clean it once in a while it will give you many years of service, providing pleasure often when you most need it. Nor will it lay around stinking up your quarters when not in use.
There are quite a few rescue-pipes in my collection.


Over on the Zuckerbergian side of the internet someone posted a picture of Che Guevara smoking a pipe. Che Guevara, as you probably know, was a psychopath; murderous, and a despicable piece of filth. Which some people pointed out. Various pipesmokers promptly leapt to his defense, as pipesmokers are all kindly avuncular types incapable of nastiness.

In fact, pipesmokers are all Hobbits.
Positively Tolkienesque.

I personally know several pipesmokers who are blistering bastards.
Toxic individuals who suck the life out of any party.
That's not just a comment on their pipes.

It beastly wet outside, and cold.
I shall need a heavy coat.
And an umbrella.

TOBACCO INDEX


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