Do you know any juice-moochers?

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HighlanderNorth

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I remember when I was between 16-28, I had several really close friends, but most of them didnt hang around within the same circles of friends as the others did, so I got to know several different groups of people that I would hang around with from time to time, and of course there were groups that I hung around with more often that others.

So we'd go out partying regularly and smoking cigs, drinking beers, etc., but there were always people in the different groups who were total moochers who would bum cigs, beers, food, you name it! Who really killed me was my kinda, off again-on again friend named Scott W., who had pretty good financial responsibility in that he didnt over-spend very often, he saved money, etc., but he did so by mooching! He would regularly go to a party and drink everyone else's beer and smoke their cigs, even though he had money! He would bum off of people who were nearly broke to save his own money.

Now there was another hippy guy named Rob who was maybe even worse with bumming, but that was because he usually didnt have a job back then, had no car most of the time, and no money, because when he did get a little money he'd spend it all on partying and on gourmet food he couldnt afford, then be broke and mooching! But at least Rob had an excuse for mooching(no money), but what Scott did was really annoying because he could afford to buy his own cigs, food and beer.

So, do any of you run into anyone in the vaping community who are juice-moochers? People who will gladly vape up all your supply, and you even suspect they probably have their own supply right in their car or back at home, but they would rather save theirs by vaping up someone else's? Or maybe people who vape but are having a tough time now due to the economy so they run out frequently?
 

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i still have people at work trying to bum either cigarettes OR a lighter when i'm obviously not smoking a cigarette ( i use a provari and a tank of some sort @ work)
There r a few fellow vaprs at work, one of which used to always complain that he was out of juice and would ask me if i had any he could use. (same guy used to be infamous for bumming smokes)
 

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I have smoking friends who I let mooch my vapes all the time. I'll be hanging out with my best friend who I started smoking with over 20 years ago, and every time she comes over I let her vape anything she's interested in for the night. She usually makes it through on maybe 1 or 2 cigs as opposed to a pack, and hopefully I'll get her fully converted one day. Other than that, the local vapers here will pass devices and juice back and forth, but no moochers.
 

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No juice moochers for me...but I really don't have any friends that are vapers. When i was smoking though...I was literally somehow everyones source for cigarettes. It's so funny when we all go out now, and they still forget that I don't smoke anymore, never bring their own...and about an hour into the night, they are sending someone to go get cigarettes. It's been 7 months now...and it happened last weekend even. It's always "hey Daniele...can I a bum a....OH...i forgot you quit!"

A few of them will just take a couple drags on my e-cig and they are satisfied and completely forget about wanting a cigarette. (these are all mainly the "social smokers") :)
 

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One of my friends, who used to smoke occasionally, loves my e-cigs. He always wants to try what I'm using and will just reach over towards me which means "give me some!". I have no problem with it and will usually just let him use one of my mods for the night. He might use 1-1.5ml of liquid, so it's not like it really matters. We're a very close knit group and it's more like family than friends.

If it was someone I barely knew trying that it wouldn't happen. I'll let strangers (friend of a friend) at parties take a toot or two if they've never tried an e-cig before, but it ends at that.
 

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Not yet. But I'll gladly top off a fellow(ette)'s tank/carto/clearo with my DIY. Most of my v-verts are truly glad to reimbur$e me for the jooses I mix for 'em; especially considering what is charged at our local major nationally name B&M in town.

Don't get me started on da moochers back when I smoked... too many (war) stories, some outrageously funny!
 

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I used to keep a full pack of cigs in the car, put 2 or 3 in an empty pack and carry that into work so I could say I didn't have enough to share. I have no problem letting any of my friends take a 78mm or even one of my X2s for the night and vape their faces off. I'm happy to share if I can convert someone. I took all of my gear to my sister's wedding and passed out 4 78mms and 2 Volt X2s during the recteption. I had 3 out of the 6 people contact me afterwards wanting advice on ordering. I'd help another vaper out in a pinch, but not allow them to mooch forever. Smokers can mooch my vapeage any time they want..... it may save their life.
 

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I used to keep a full pack of cigs in the car, put 2 or 3 in an empty pack and carry that into work so I could say I didn't have enough to share. I have no problem letting any of my friends take a 78mm or even one of my X2s for the night and vape their faces off. I'm happy to share if I can convert someone. I took all of my gear to my sister's wedding and passed out 4 78mms and 2 Volt X2s during the recteption. I had 3 out of the 6 people contact me afterwards wanting advice on ordering. I'd help another vaper out in a pinch, but not allow them to mooch forever. Smokers can mooch my vapeage any time they want..... it may save their life.



Thats hilarious! I was just about to post how I moved into the city for the first time ever in 1999, and people would bum cigs so much that other people I knew instructed me to carry 2 packs. One with many cigs, and the other with just 1 or 2 cigs, so you always can say you dont have many left and have proof of it! But whats even funnier, is that there were so many cig moochers in the city that they became aware of that tactic, and when you showed them your mostly empty pack, they'd give you a dirty look and say "I know you got another pack somewhere"!

What killed me though was that you could give these people smokes day in and day out thinking that one day when you needed a smoke, someone would hook you up, kinda a cigarette karma kinda deal, but it almost never worked out that way! These bums NEVER had smokes! There is no cigarette karma....
 
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