So in a total Exxon Valdez moment I just spilled snuff at work. barely saved half of my dwindling supply of Tom Buck. The rest… I seem to be wearing it… Your best snuff spill story go… Or you are perfect so mock my clumsiness… Ken
Had a fresh open can in hand, explaining to my wife how enjoyable this snuff was, she hit the breaks, my snuff hit the floor, I salvaged what I could. Sad, funny and ironic, she had just said " hang on to that, don’t spill in the car".
I’d just unpacked my latest delivery of snuff in the morning, and was working my way through the tobaccoey goodness in the evening after work. One of the snuffs was a Bernard one in a tap box. I’d enjoyed a pinch, and decided to take off the warning notice stuck to the back of the box - I don’t like 'em at the best of times, and couldn’t even read this one cos it was in German. So I’m pulling on the edge of the label, slowly peeling the label back when the slight force involved causes the back and front of the box to part company, pouring the entire box over my tee shirt and jeans. As luck would have it, I was sitting down right here at my computer, so after scooping up what I could with the back of the box I found a piece of paper, put a crease in the middle and then started to pat what I could of the remaining snuff on my clothes onto it. Although I had to wash my clothes afterward I reckon I must’ve saved about three quarters of it! Yay!!
i think my worst recently ish was i literally lost a toque tin full of ‘sea breezes’ to the actual sea breezes. man i was annoyed, i love the stuff.
I feel your pain. I am overly careful I make sure I have a sheet of paper under my tins when opening. Then I load them in glass jars and fill my snuff boxes from jars. I did learn the hard way; popping the top of a SG tin, the snuff went flying and there was no saving any.
I had a tin of Dean Swift’s “Deans Own” that seemed welded shut. I finally decided to grab a screw driver, punched a hole in the lid and tried to pry the top off. I finally seperated the top from the bottom but they both were launched out of my grasp, covering the keyboard & my shirt in snuff. I did manage to get a sample of the snuff. I have another tin, but will “open it” at some other time. I didn’t want to push my luck.
Just got to the point where I could take the plastic bag out of a 200 g, 6 Photo Special tin… Wouldn’cha know it… I had perforated the bottom quite badly and left a trail (about 120 g) of snuff on my carpet because I didn’t notice the leak!
I tried to take a pinch out of a tin of Queens Extra once over an open toilet. Butterfingers here fumbled it, and it turned over a few times before I caught it again. Almost all of the snuff went in the water.
Morning after drunken night. Found open smash box of Tom Buck in half full glass of beer. Made me sad 
Trying to open Black Joe at work. The can exploded in my hand but luckily the spill landed on the desk (which wasn’t the cleanest as far as dust and whatever else laying about) scooped it all up anyway dust and all. doh!
Trying to open Black Joe at work. The can exploded in my hand but luckily the spill landed on the desk (which wasn’t the cleanest as far as dust and whatever else laying about) scooped it all up anyway dust and all. doh!
The Black Joe tin is a nightmare - I stuck some in a 5g Wilson’s tin so I don;t have to go through all that stress each time I want a pinch. :))
Yesterday I handed my mom my new tin of Toque Almond Toast, for her to smell. She handed it back to me after making a gag-face, and it turned out that she didn’t twist the lid back on it. A bit later I reached for it, unaware that the lid by which I was grasping it wasn’t secured. Well, the snuff-containing part dropped about 3 feet and hit the ground… But not after I gave a tremendous report of horror. Luckily, the snuff was so tightly packed that the loss amounted to no more than a few pinches! I immediately set forth and tamped each tin as tight as I could; I got lucky that time, and luck is such a scarce resource these days. 
The most frequent issue for me is a tendency to lose track of which tin lid belongs to which tin. For example, when I received my first order of WoS IT No 21 and IHT No 22, I opened both tin so as to engage in the age-old ritual of side-by-side comparison. The panic set in as it occurred to me that I had made no effort to preserve their nominal integrity. Does anyone else have this happen? I now mark each tin with a sharpie, yet I continue to wrestle with that feeling of idiocy.
I tried to be ‘cool’ with my smash box the other day in a bar with a buddy and his girl friend. Packed it like it was dip(can’t believe I can still do it, been 5 years!) and when I popped the lid for a pinch, she smacked it out of my hand after muttering “gross.” I explained to my buddy my opinion of her, that he could do better, then went home for a pinch before returning(bar was 1/2 block from the apartment) with a new box. She tried again, but I was prepared.
Well I am officially out of Tom Buck, the last bit I managed to save from that spill. My order can’t get here soon enough. All I have left is maybe a gram or two of Crumbs of Comfort as far WOS snuffs, which I must confess is my preferred brand. Ken
Oh every time I go to fill my snuff box gravity gets a small donation. The worst I’ve ever had was when I was taking a pinch while driving and spilled half the box on my lap and the seat between my legs.
I finally ordered a bullet for driving. Driving is the one place where the E-cig is still winning out for now. The new bullet will be coming with the order that has my Tom Buck. Ken
@Kpod, a lot of Wilsons tins are also labeled on the bottom.
@Xander Interesting, mine had no such label.
i have never seen a wilsons tin be labelled on the bottom. interesting.
Me neither… Ken