02 Feb 09 07:30, Roger Nelson wrote to Bob Ackley:


 BA>> That's true.  I remember back in the 5th and 6th grades the
"cool"
 BA>> kids used to sneak around behind the portable classrooms (portable,
 BA>> hah!, they'd been there for 20 years when I was there in 1955-56 are
 BA>> probably still there) to smoke. I sneaked a couple of cigarettes
 BA>> from my parents' stash and tried it in our back yard. Made me so
 BA>> sick I decided that sort of thing wasn't for me, I was 12 at the
 BA>> time.

 RN> I started when I was 15.  When we didn't have 29 cents for the price
 RN> of a pack, we used this wonderful gadget my soon-to-be BIL had.  A
 RN> clever little device that you placed the tobacco and paper in and in
 RN> one motion, like the old time credit card machines, you had a neatly
 RN> rolled cigarette.  We used pipe tobacco back then.

Hack, hack, cough, wheez...been there, done that. Never had the guts to
try pipe tobacco though.

                R\%/itt



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