Quote Originally Posted by mooster View Post
I couldn't help thinking about this thread lately. For the last week or so, I seem to have lost my touch. I load a bowl, and it's either too tight and I have to reload, or it's like drawing on air and I can't get the bowl started. I push a pipe cleaner in to dry out the pipe or knock down "the nastys" and it doesn't stop at the bottom of the bowl but tries to push the baccy out of the bowl. I don't know why I'm struggling all of a sudden after five years of pipe smoking, and I'm sure it will pass, but it is most frustrating to be going through this.
It will indeed pass. I think we all just fall victim to user error from time to time. It doesn't help that tobacco and pipes are fickle little bastards. One day they smoke like a dream, the other they bite you and make your life miserable