I’m wondering how open you guys are with the world about your snuffing. Even though it’s not illegal or anything I tend to excuse myself to the bathroom to snuff in certain situations… in school for instance, or someone I don’t know very well’s house. I do take it in public most of the time though. It’s great in the nature!
I honestly don’t care, I snuff wherever I happen to be
A lot of it depends on how much toffee-nose it gives me. Pinching can usually be done discreetly, but if the nose wants to run, it can be obvious. I was working with a guy last week and he asked me if I had a bloody nose earlier in the day. LOL, I suppose it does look like wet “dried” blood.
I partake wherever and whenever I please. Interestingly the funniest time was while serving as a juror sitting in the juror’s box straight across from the judge he looked across at me as I took a nice blast off the back of my hand. He got the funniest look on his face like I don’t believe what I just saw and then he thought about it and finally decided it must be something legal as no one would have the gall with a judge, two bailiff’s and a court reporter sitting there to be doing something illegal.
I’ve reached the age where I generally don’t give a tinker’s d@mn what people think. Have had curious individuals ask what it is and then wish to try a pinch.
Most of the time I don’t care. However there is one case were it is actually better to be more open than more discrete. As a musician when I am out playing gigs, and the whole musician and drug use moniker, disappearing to the bath room to sniff something up your nose looks worse than just being blatant and in the open about it. Ken
definatly agree with devilock on that. Most of the time I’am open about it but there are times I don’t feel comfortable. Usaly if I’am at someones place and I don’t feel comfortable about I’ll over them a pinch to skip the confusion. At school I don’t really snuff because I think it may cause problems and headaches due to misunderstanding. Same with some work places I’ve been at.
I snuff off the back of the hand and do it anywhere or time. I do get dirty looks in hospitals or doctors offices. They don’t say anything though because how can they say snuffing hurts the other patients?
I am discrete at hospitals about it as most say no tobacco period and even list smokeless products. Ken
@Xander, I always have with me a small pocket mirror to prevent the bleeding nose scenario. I use snuff whenever I feel like it, no matter where I am.
@ Pieter: I usually do as well, but I was engaged in some heavy work and anything in my pockets that could break would have. Also sometimes a trickle can go unnoticed, especially when you are used to it.
I use a bullet, and use it whenever I feel the need. I have gotten questions, of course, but in my experience, at least one of the people (if we are talking about a group) knows what it is on some level. Actually, I pulled a tin out of my lunch box the other day (during lunch break) to refill my bullet, and one of the older carpenters asked to verify what it was, and then mentioned how he used to use it. I offered him a pinch, of course, but he has quit all tobacco and alcohol. Still, it was really neat. ~Ken
Funny enough, I figured more people would quiz me on it, but I’ve found taking a pinch to be as natural-looking as reaching up to scratch your nose. I had some trepidation about snuffing at my desk at work, especially since we work on-site with our client, but after the first week or two it became second nature. Also, management passed a draconian smoking policy that limited cig breaks to twice a day, so I HAD to have something to get me over the hump. The few of my friends who’ve asked what I’m up to, once given a brief explanation seem satisfied. Only a few have taken up my offer of a pinch, but what the hell, I’m no apostle. Dr. S. can lead you to the door; it’s up to you to walk through it…
I usually take a few sniffs from my bullet while sitting at the bar, had a few people inquire and a few others wish to try it. I haven’t gotten any dirty looks, i try to be discrete though.
I use my pipe tool spoon, then out with the handkerchief.
Dig this, I was sitting at my desk and my supervisor noticed me partaking, and the very next day I got picked for a random drug test, I confronted my supervisor about it and explained to him what I was doing now I cant get his d@mn fingers out of my snuff box! LOL
At work I tend to be discrete because they already think I’m a nut, but just about everywhere else I just do it. Sometimes when I’m in my car at a red light shovelling snuff into my nose like a fiend, I get some pretty strange looks out of the car beside me. At a Primus concert in Toronto this summer I managed to do my snuffing whilst being crushed against the barrier with body surfers going over my head. Then when I went to see Arcade Fire I even convinced the security guy to try some. I should have video taped that as his reaction was hilarious.
I take a pinch regardless of where I am at most of the time. If I happen to be at church or something like that, it doesn’t kill me to wait. I have had people stare at me but no one has really said anything bad about it. I do think though, if I happened to have a snuff that was white, I wouldn’t use it in public. Cops here have nothing to do so they use their time annoying and harassing people, and having white snuff would probably be a bad idea to have,lol.
That’s what I like about living in England. Snuff,(at least in my area), never died out so it isn’t an unusual thing to be seen taking snuff. I’m on holiday at the moment in the Isle of Man and here snuff culture is zilch although everybody smokes like chimneys, but people here still know what it is. Stefan
walrus… that would be so cool to see. I’m always the only one snuffing no matter where I am in the states. Do you bond with people over snuff too? That’s a dream of mine recently haha.