How sentimental are you?

[DirtDawg]

I have been cleaning out my garage and really,  I wonder why I have have kept half the shit I'm throwing out.

However, I have found my grandfather's pipe in piles of shit that need to be thrown away and it is loaded with his last pipeful of Prince Albert, which he never got to smoke, because he died right then, holding onto it and telling everyone to fuck off about his pipe smoking. I've heard the story too many times. I am a pipe smoker and it looks brand new, due to the lack of teeth marks on the stem. I remember, also, that he had no teeth for the last ten years of his life and that this was his favorite pipe, towards the end. That's why I have it. I am the only pipe smoker in the family.

Should I smoke it? Is that too creepy? Am I a sentimental douchebag for even hesitating? Should I just keep it aside for some future interest? Should I clean it and smoke it with my wonderful Danish blend of aged tobaccos? Should I smoke his death smoke, which is sixteen years old now and of which he never got to partake?
Am I thinking over thinkning too much?
Is this really my pipe or does it belong to my son and his son?

[juliekitty]

It doesn't matter.  It is just an object.

Do whatever you want to with it.

[DirtDawg]

See, that's the biggest part of me.

I just wonder what makes me think that objects are mine to do with as I please.


Is it really mine?

[Pyraxis]

My two cents: if you want to be sentimental, smoke it and use the chance to make it done with in your mind. Why does it matter how creepy it is? Keeping shit like that for kids doesn't work from what I've seen - most of the time they really don't give a crap. I've got a closet shelf full of family stuff I'm obligated to be sentimental about until the givers forget about it, but would rather just toss.

[El]

You coud dpass down the pipe if you like, but you can't guarantee that your progeny will smoke pipes, so I'd say it's your smoke.  Besides which, with each passing generation, that smoke would mean less and less to the people who had the tobacco-laden pipe.  You're the man for the job right now, IMO.

[Calandale]

It's your memory of him.
You have to do what you feel.

I think that I'd get a nice buzz on,
and smoke it, remembering him. The
tobacco that he was going to have.

Either way, the pipe probably shouldn't
be wasted.

But, if you keel over, before lighting it,
forget that I suggested it.

[McGiver]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

[DirtDawg]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

Not to worry. It was well preserved.

[McGiver]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

Not to worry. It was well preserved.

everytime i go through anything that has been in storage i find rat droppings.

how did you preserve it?

[DirtDawg]

It's your memory of him.
You have to do what you feel.

I think that I'd get a nice buzz on,
and smoke it, remembering him. The
tobacco that he was going to have.

Either way, the pipe probably shouldn't
be wasted.

But, if you keel over, before lighting it,
forget that I suggested it.

If I keel over, the only person that will blame you will be you. This is really important, though.

[DirtDawg]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

Not to worry. It was well preserved.

everytime i go through anything that has been in storage i find rat droppings.

how did you preserve it?

We don't live in California.

Also, it was within, within, within plastic.

[Calandale]

If I keel over, the only person that will blame you will be you. This is really important, though.

Nah. I'd figure 'twas right somehow.
It almost seems as though he's asking
for contact.

[McGiver]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

Not to worry. It was well preserved.

everytime i go through anything that has been in storage i find rat droppings.

how did you preserve it?

We don't live in California.

Also, it was within, within, within plastic.

do rats come from the dock or something?

[DirtDawg]

But what about this shit?

Do you have anything that is sentimental to you?

[DirtDawg]

before you smoke it check for rat droppings.

Not to worry. It was well preserved.

everytime i go through anything that has been in storage i find rat droppings.

how did you preserve it?

We don't live in California.

Also, it was within, within, within plastic.

do rats come from the dock or something?

Not sure. Around here they come from the corn fields, which I live many miles from.