Pipe Smoking Lounges

 They don’t exist.  I went to YouTube search for pipe smoking lounges and all I found were lounges for cigar smokers.  Cigar smokers are typically more socialable and can be loud.  Pipe smokers, on the other hand, tend to be more quiet and rather into themselves.  But if I wanted a lounge for smoking my pipes, I’d have to go to cigar bars.  I really don’t want to do this.  If I share my space with someone, I prefer quiet conversations with one or a few and would rather be less sociable than cigar smokers.

This is why I’d rather smoke my pipe at home.  I know I’d be sharing space with no one but a few.  I’d rather not seek to be the center of attention.  I’d rather listen than talk.  But I can carry on a conversation, which in today’s world seems to be a lost art with everyone on their phones.  A conversation is still the best way to communicate, in my thinking.  

I just spent the last three hours here on the lanai with my thoughts.  And that was just fine with me.  I don’t need all the conversation a cigar bar might have to offer.  I can’t focus with too many people around.  Pipe smokers like the quiet. 

I wrote the above yesterday, but waited until this morning to publish this.  Yes, pipe smokers need a lounge, but as opposed to drinking hard liquor while smoking as cigar smokers often do, it seems most pipe smokers prefer coffee as I do,   There is nothing like a morning pipe on the deck in NY or on the lanai here in Florida with a hot cup of fresh coffee.  I am smoking my Czech Jirsa pipe with some Black and Gold Maple with a cup of Peruvian coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen