The Oldie

My pipe dream

I smoke a pipe. There. I said it.

Now, of course, one shouldn’t smoke anything, because smoking is bad for you. And most people don’t. Only about one people in ten now smokes, although that figure zooms up late in the evening at parties and pubs, where every ex-smoker decides they fancy a puff of something, and could they cadge one?

This proves difficult when you have a pipe; for a pipe is personal, and its mouthpiece is covered with your germs. That sounds most unsavoury, but

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