Hello all,
I'm new to the ECF new member's guild and am curious as to how your spouse responded to your new hobby..and vice.
I've been vaping openly now for the past month and my wife isn't none to happy about it. My son turned me onto it as he has been vaping for the past year and decided to make a business out of it. I was enthusiastic and supported my son's ne venture, and even though I've kicked the smoking habit about eight year's ago. To show my support, I placed an initial order for a couple of his cheapest batteries, a couple of cartomizers and several 15mil bottles of e-juice. I never opened the package (my son lives about an hour's drive from my little town in west central Minnesota), as I had no intention of ever "vaping". It was my intention to secretly place orders, then give him back the unopened packages as my sign of good-will and father support.
My wife doesn't mind if he vapes, but I knew she'd have my hide if she found out I had opened the package. I promised her that I had no intention to begin vaping as I saw no need or desire for it, but my curiosity got the best of me and after 3 weeks of sitting on the package I intended to deliver back to him, I thought, "what the hell", he didn't know what I would do with it anyway, so I carefully opened the package, against my better judgment (fear and trembling for being caught with my hand in the cookie jar), I slowly examined the foreign contents. without a whole lot of difficulty, I managed to assemble it in short order, and before I knew it, I was blowing clouds of chemical tasting smoke. Old habit's die hard and I realized I was back to those deep, lung inhales, bringing me back to old pot smoking days and remembering the pleasure I had as a pack a day smoker of my favorite Marlborough ash burners. Yes, I was hooked that quickly...to my pleasure even if I had to take a slap to the back of my bald head when my wife caught wind of it. I managed to hide it from her for about a month (a great side-benefit to stinkless "smoking"), though all the while becoming more familiar with my son's contraband. Before I knew it, I was placing my second order.
All was well until my 15 year old son spotted a battery charging off it's USB connection, and stashed behind the desktop one morning. I guess that there was a brief discussion as to what it was with his mother, because as I slept in (a serious bi-product of staying up all night closet-vaping), my son explained to his mother that he thought it was an e-cigarrette battery. I was so busted. At that point, there was no going back as I dug the heels of my slippers into the carpet, vowing to divorce if she ever got between me and those highly addictive gadgets I had been secretly been smoking from. There was no way in hell that she was going to rip them from my iron like grip...over my dead body. Well, she didn't even fight with me, so my worst fears were never realized, though the next time she saw our vaping son, she gave him a little .... over it. So here I am. I recently placed an order, well actually a few orders with MBV'or for many juice flavors, and some upgraded equipment. Smoking was never so fun as when I incoherently clicked away several hundred dollars in "necessary" equipment (not all was purchased from MBV'or). I've been acting like a street junkie in my quest for more...more...more. A week later, I'm actually beginning to fear her again, but this time for what I've done to our emaciated bank accounts. I'll be well stocked into the new year, and I hope that my new packages arrive quietly this week while she goes to give massages (she a massage therapist) for a friend's family reunion Wednesday, Thursday, an Friday at at their beautiful lake home. I'm hoping that the vendor's are good on their two day turn-arounds as I placed yet another wacky order again today, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but with a little finger calculating that my 10 year old daughter taught me over her summer break, I'm guessing that the Friday morning UPS deliveries will arrive before she get's home. If not, I'm afraid that I'm going to be in pretty deep kimchi and sleeping at my son's house for a few days for all of the trouble he led me into. so my question remains, "how well did your spouse or significant other take the news when you embarked on your own journey into the seedy realm of vaping?
I'm new to the ECF new member's guild and am curious as to how your spouse responded to your new hobby..and vice.
I've been vaping openly now for the past month and my wife isn't none to happy about it. My son turned me onto it as he has been vaping for the past year and decided to make a business out of it. I was enthusiastic and supported my son's ne venture, and even though I've kicked the smoking habit about eight year's ago. To show my support, I placed an initial order for a couple of his cheapest batteries, a couple of cartomizers and several 15mil bottles of e-juice. I never opened the package (my son lives about an hour's drive from my little town in west central Minnesota), as I had no intention of ever "vaping". It was my intention to secretly place orders, then give him back the unopened packages as my sign of good-will and father support.
My wife doesn't mind if he vapes, but I knew she'd have my hide if she found out I had opened the package. I promised her that I had no intention to begin vaping as I saw no need or desire for it, but my curiosity got the best of me and after 3 weeks of sitting on the package I intended to deliver back to him, I thought, "what the hell", he didn't know what I would do with it anyway, so I carefully opened the package, against my better judgment (fear and trembling for being caught with my hand in the cookie jar), I slowly examined the foreign contents. without a whole lot of difficulty, I managed to assemble it in short order, and before I knew it, I was blowing clouds of chemical tasting smoke. Old habit's die hard and I realized I was back to those deep, lung inhales, bringing me back to old pot smoking days and remembering the pleasure I had as a pack a day smoker of my favorite Marlborough ash burners. Yes, I was hooked that quickly...to my pleasure even if I had to take a slap to the back of my bald head when my wife caught wind of it. I managed to hide it from her for about a month (a great side-benefit to stinkless "smoking"), though all the while becoming more familiar with my son's contraband. Before I knew it, I was placing my second order.
All was well until my 15 year old son spotted a battery charging off it's USB connection, and stashed behind the desktop one morning. I guess that there was a brief discussion as to what it was with his mother, because as I slept in (a serious bi-product of staying up all night closet-vaping), my son explained to his mother that he thought it was an e-cigarrette battery. I was so busted. At that point, there was no going back as I dug the heels of my slippers into the carpet, vowing to divorce if she ever got between me and those highly addictive gadgets I had been secretly been smoking from. There was no way in hell that she was going to rip them from my iron like grip...over my dead body. Well, she didn't even fight with me, so my worst fears were never realized, though the next time she saw our vaping son, she gave him a little .... over it. So here I am. I recently placed an order, well actually a few orders with MBV'or for many juice flavors, and some upgraded equipment. Smoking was never so fun as when I incoherently clicked away several hundred dollars in "necessary" equipment (not all was purchased from MBV'or). I've been acting like a street junkie in my quest for more...more...more. A week later, I'm actually beginning to fear her again, but this time for what I've done to our emaciated bank accounts. I'll be well stocked into the new year, and I hope that my new packages arrive quietly this week while she goes to give massages (she a massage therapist) for a friend's family reunion Wednesday, Thursday, an Friday at at their beautiful lake home. I'm hoping that the vendor's are good on their two day turn-arounds as I placed yet another wacky order again today, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but with a little finger calculating that my 10 year old daughter taught me over her summer break, I'm guessing that the Friday morning UPS deliveries will arrive before she get's home. If not, I'm afraid that I'm going to be in pretty deep kimchi and sleeping at my son's house for a few days for all of the trouble he led me into. so my question remains, "how well did your spouse or significant other take the news when you embarked on your own journey into the seedy realm of vaping?
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