skaukatt
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Post by skaukatt on Mar 17, 2016 19:13:21 GMT -5
Dennis' Charatan - All's Well That Ends Well Thank Goodness!!!
From Dennis:
My dear friends,
Well, this is a first and I am a bit embarrassed about raising an alarm now, but I did not know the following. This is the strangest things to ever happen to me with pipes.
I received a box in the mail today with a POB return address. I opened it and to my utter astonishment, there was the pipe that I thought was stolen. There was a note that said that this person had picked up the pipe to further examine it and to show it to a friend. He got into some conversations and laid the pipe on his table and then forgot about it. He discovered it when he packed up but saw that I had already left the show. He said that he was too embarrassed to tell anyone but his friend so on Monday, 3/14 he packed up the pipe and mailed it to me. I just received it today, Thursday, 3/17. He said in an enclosed note that he wants to remain anonymous to “forgo humiliation and ridicule from others for being an idiot”, his words. I was in such a hurry to catch my plane that I scooped up my pipes and descriptor cards and did not notice the pipe was missing until I got home. You can imagine how stupid I feel about not being fore careful when I pack up my pipes.
I apologize for the inconvenience I put my dear pipe smoking friends to on this matter but if the pipe was truly stolen, I wanted to make it risky for anyone to dispose of the pipe. I want to thank my pipe friends for any effort exerted in my behalf. I have been touched by the support I received from my fellow briar friars. They are a cadre of truly honorable men and women.
Dennis
Dennis Congos 120 Beech Street Oviedo, FL 32765 407-359-4317 dcongos@mail.ucf.edu
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Post by fadingdaylight on Mar 17, 2016 19:32:05 GMT -5
Glad to hear it is resolved. The idea that someone would steal a pipe like that really irked me.
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 17, 2016 20:15:37 GMT -5
A happy ending. I'm glad all is restored.
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 17, 2016 21:00:06 GMT -5
adding my "glad all's well". Something a bit similar happened at the 1st "real" pipe show, the BarryLevin Expo near Boston in '87. Somebody (not me), packed up to leave, missed a pipe...wound up dumping them all out at his table, found it near the bottom. Anybody reading this who was at that show might remember me vaguely. Post reply here or private at my e-addy.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by antb on Mar 18, 2016 4:33:28 GMT -5
Love happy endings
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Post by crapgame on Mar 18, 2016 9:41:19 GMT -5
Great to see an honest mistake with a happy ending!
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