A Gentleman’s Guide to Living

Mr. J. Stepp

The Best Time for a Pipe

By Mr. J. Stepp
Pipe-Up, Sixth & Seventh Congress, December 2012

While one could argue there is no truly bad time for a pipe...Well, maybe there is like while filling your car up with gasoline, or buying fireworks or cradling a newborn baby...

...Let me begin again.

Smoking a pipe is an enjoyable experience but the act is sometimes more enjoyable, and more appropriate, than others.

 Here are a few examples:

Times when you need to relax. Or have fun. Or are about to face a firing squad. After sex. Or before sex. Or even during sex if you’re careful. While wearing a tweed jacket. While relaxing in your club chair after all your other furniture has been repossessed. While drinking scotch or cognac. Or brandy or port. I guess while drinking anything. Drinking and smoking are like yin and yang. Abbott and Costello. Cheech and Chong. (I know a method to easily extract the seeds. But I digress.) While surfing the web for a mail order bride. While mooning Grant at Strauss during a drive by in the ‘68 LTD Presidential Pipe Mobile. After your friends and relatives have told you they are planning an intervention. After you spent your paycheck on a Borsalino fedora and Charlie Mingus records. While watching Rick Steve’s Travel videos or The Food Channel or Bugs Bunny. After dining on a bag of Dorito’s and a 6 pack of High Life.
As you can see, there are many opportunities to enhance an already enjoyable smoke.  So, if you are experiencing the same life enriching experiences as I am.

Join me. Light up!