Please Tell Me Some Funny Horror Stories :)

[BassPlayersWife]

I could have called this "Misery loves company" but i dont feel quite miserable... yet, lol.

I have made some of the stupidest mistakes. I was a better vaper the first couple of weeks. And it sure was more enjoyable back before my husband and i knew how to dryburn CE4's (we though it would be nice and clean all of our clearos at once (7 destroyed, 3 are usable, but they taste terrible).. It all started out so wonderful, you know? We have been vaping burned clearos for almost a week now waiting on ViVi Novas to arrive (Fed Ex was supposed to be here already today, so i am staring at the driveway).

For a smoker like me, one who really loved it and had for over 35 years, vaping seemed like a dream come true. All that "smoke" to play with, but great flavors and so much more vapor to play with than I ever had smoking. So i watched lots of videos, read the forum a great deal, and knew i would have to learn. I admit i have vapors envy watching vids.

I know myself and my husband well enough to know that dripping is where we will end up, but that carto-tanks are where we should be heading for the next step. I also know i have to learn a great deal to get there. I figured I would make mistakes, but some of them are just so stupid and expensive I cant even think about it.

Example: I was supposed to order some 1000 mah (or higher) Ego Twist batts, before i knew I would need mods. I had several in shopping carts at different vendors looking for best price. When i knew i had them, i paid out.. checked back later, only to realize i got higher mah batts, but not the twist part. So we are stuck with these. I just cannot see paying $80 for two more twists, when 2 Provari's are being ordered in two weeks.

If you wouldnt mind, i could use some funny stories. Each hit i take off this nasty tasting clearo that barely works has me staring at my analogs in the closet.. its been 5 weeks. I can do this, i can do this, i can do this, lol.

 

[Dj tank]

Wow...that's a crazy story. I've been lucky so far - as a new vaper...I've only ruined 2 cartomizers and misordered one 15ml bottle of juice. On that juice misorder I must have set it to 36mg by accident - when I got it I loved the flavor so I was vapin the crap out of it and I got the most massive migraine I'd ever had. I finally read the damn bottle and noticed how high it was. Needless to say I cut it with some lesser stuff and learned a valuable lesson.

 

[Stownz]

Well, its been 3 years since I started vaping, but I vividly remember some horror stories.

I didnt know how long e-juice would last, and at the time, I was buying stuff from europe. I didnt buy a lot on the initial purchase, because I didn't know if vaping was hype or not. I started running low, so I ordered some more from europe, but a week later, all I had left was a "sample" bottle of Banana flavor they had included for free. I had to vape banana for a week until new supplies arrived. I went nutz buying juice from all kind of different sources after that, hoping to stock up, but what ended up happening was back to back $75 orders of juice that tasted horrible... so I was no better off.

Another time, I tried a brand new vendor here in the US. I ordered some 36mg, but that is not what arrived. I vaped 36 mg for over a month before this, and still do. I filled up my little cartridge, plugged it into my atty, took a vape, and it tasted absolutely horrible!!! So I take another hit, and all of a sudden it felt like a train rammed into my head! My first experience with nicotine overdose thanks to a vendor... I thought I blew a blood vessel in my brain it hurt so bad...

Then I started DIY, never looked back, never short on juice 8)

 

[r77r7r]

Carto-tanks were the easiest set-up I've used, no need to fear.

 

[The Ocelot]

I had a drip tip melt on a clearo and replaced it with a stainless steel one not realizing the problem was systemic. I ordered a vivi mini nova at the same time as the drip tip and proceeded to kill it. After several untimely deaths I learned that cinnamon degrades polycarbonate. RIP my little friends.

 

[Absintheur]

My worse was not really paying attention when dropping a battery in a mod. Dropped it in wrong side down and fried a week old Kick.

 

[PLANofMAN]

Favorite "shorty" 600 mah eGo style battery, about a week old. I was still new to rebuildable atomizers and didn't realize that attaching them to eGo batteries without making sure all the shorts were worked out first was a bad idea. Needless to say, I took a vape, let off of the button and continued walking the dog. Realized that my eGo was feeling warm and looked down to see vapor pouring out of the RBA and smoke coming from the eGo's circuit board section. That eGo battery never turned on again...

 

[kariM]

Well I guess it is good for us newbies to read some of these horror stories - hopefully we will learn from them I guess so far I am pretty fortunate - the worst I did was when I first got my T3. I had been having leaking issues with the CE4s and even at times with the T2 so I filled up the T3 - vape with it for a few minutes and then decided to check if it was leaking

Well - I actually unscrewed the tank from the base instead of off the battery and dumped a full tank of juice all over my keyboard Thankfully I had a spare keyboard and my wonderful computer tech son - cleaned up the keyboard as good as new. So the worst was the loss of 2.4mls of juice.

I am sure there will be more - in the future - but thanks to all the great info on ECF - hopefully I will avoid the more costly ones.

 

[BassPlayersWife]

heh, This is good stuff Thank you, lol. It sucks being a noob at anything, imo.

I do have a juice story. I was reading a lot of info on the EC Blends site on juices, and heeded the warning about just getting test bottles, but then.. what do you vape while waiting for them to make you more if you like it, and then ship? I live very rural and Austin is a good 30 minutes away, not that i would know where to go there for anything, lol.

I got one 50 ml bottle of Dragons Blood (oh yeah!!) and some others to test and play with. But, every single one i picked had to steep, lol. Thank the Vape Gods that our Zeus Juice came in. Steeping is kind of painful in a way... so I ordered more steepers so that when one set was done, i would have a flow going. Too bad we decided that a 50/50, 18 nic blend would work better for hubby's singing voice, lol. So we ordered even more. I have lots of juice now, lol.

VVN's just got here and I filled one up to let it soak awhile. Obviously I will not be able to adjust any kind of setting with these EGO batts, so lets just hope for now, its better than the dry hits and burnt taste we have been dealing with this last week. We did learn at least to not "clean" or tamper with many things at once, lol.

I cant wait until we get our mods. Then we will go carto-tank.

 

[PLANofMAN]

Yes, clean with vodka, everclear or rubbing alcohol next time. Save the dry burn for another day.

 

[The Ocelot]

I love ECBlend - inexpensive and lots of customization options; that said, I suck at imagining what flavors might taste like. I was trying to come up with a cinnamon cream flavor and used Bavarian Cream (which is basically vanilla). For some reason I thought cinnamon would overpower vanilla, so I ordered a very high vanilla ratio. OH LORD! I now have vanillaphobia.

 

[mirrorim]

Well - I actually unscrewed the tank from the base instead of off the battery and dumped a full tank of juice all over my keyboard Thankfully I had a spare keyboard and my wonderful computer tech son - cleaned up the keyboard as good as new. So the worst was the loss of 2.4mls of juice.

I was about a half turn away from that with my Vivi Nova Mini this afternoon, which I recieved two of a couple of days ago... what a difference. Ran to a local smoke shop today to see if there was a dripping atty available there (first big order of liquid came in and I have no way to try any of them safely, to my knowledge). They had some liquids but the rest were all cig-a-like type products. The clerk in the store lost it over my Vision Spinner 1300mah and when I unscrewed the clearo to hand her the battery, I grabbed the tube instead of the bottom cap. Caught it just in time to save it from a spill on the counter.

 

[Worzel]

Okay, I was at work one night, and I showed my friend my rig. He was interested in vaping, and I wanted to show him there were things other than cig alikes out there. He got excited seeing it, grabbed my rig and pulled my tank almost all the way off my carto! I managed to get it away from him before he got it all the way off! Luckily, there was a quarter tank left! I don't know what possessed him to do that, but we both smelled like grape Bubblicious for the rest of the night! I couldn't stay mad, because I caught him sniffing his sleeve many times!

 

[seraphicdragon]

Been vaping only since november but thankfully to an obssesive compulsive personality disorder, and lurking for months on ecf (yes i only just joined now bad bad) i havent had any major incidents. The only major one that comes to mind is filling a carto tank for the first time and pulling the tank entirely off the cartomizer, thankfully it was pretty much empty but omg that woulda been a mess.

 

[BassPlayersWife]

We got our VVN's in.. wow, what a difference. We are happy again

Thank you for sharing your stories.

 

[PRIMER]

Not horror, but dumb.
I have no intuition when it comes to filling clearos, and they never come with instructions.
First ce4 i tried to fill thru the 510 connect, instant mess. That was a while ago, and since then I've become a regular at my B&M.
This week I decided to try the Kanger BCC clearo and I'm at the shop and can't figure out how to unscrew the mouthpiece.
I think "maybe its like a drip tip and no need to take it apart", and proceeded to leak juice all over the nice glass countertop.
So embarrassing...of course those clearos fill from the bottom side!

 

[Tiffani]

On my lunch break at work today, I refilled my clearo. It still had some caramel mocha juice in it, and I grabbed a bottle out of my purse to add some more. It wasn't until after I refilled it that I noticed that the juice smelled an awful lot like banana. I had grabbed my bottle of banana cream juice by mistake! Not being one to waste juice, I'm vaping it, but the two flavors together (which are some of my favorites individually) are reminiscent of vomit with nuances of Hersheys kisses.

 

[kiwivap]

Grabbed my Zmax, tried to take a vape. Nothing. Tried again. Nothing. Gave it one last long push of the button and drew like mad on the vivi nova. Nothing.
Thinking OMG my mod is dead.
Realised I hadn't turned it on.....

Unscrewed vivi nova from the same mod. Just grabbed it by the tank and turned it. Unscrewed the vivi nova from its base instead of from the mod. Juice flood - my favorite juice too. Mod intact, pride a bit worse for wear.

 

[J.R. Bob Dobbs]

here's a horror story...
I was boiling cartomizers one night, i had about 25 of them soaking and forgot all about them...i remembered when i smelled burning plastic. I lost a pot and 25 carto's that day...almost wanted to have a funeral service.

but i have managed to prove carto's can produce vapor without juice in them! lots...and lots of stinky vapor...

 

[Rachy_B]

It was a dark and rainy night, about 4 days into vaping full time. The girl was sat at her computer, when suddenly her sense of taste seemed to disappear! 'Oh no!' she cried. Desperate for flavour she checked the forum, only to find that this was a common affliction known to many as 'vapers' tongue'. Like a crazed woman, she searched through her box of juices only to find that not one of them was strong enough in nicotine with a strong enough flavour. She turned back to the computer and began to Google. She found a local retailer of PVs and juices and quickly emailed him as the clock struck midnight. She sat and hugged herself for a while, praying that she wouldn't cave in. Suddenly, a reply came through and the retailer was happy for her to go by the next evening and pick up some stronger flavours in the strength of nicotine she was accustomed to. The following evening, dark, windy and rainy though it was, the girl picked up a friend from the rugby club and drove to the retailer's place of business which also happened to be his home. Unsure of what she might mind, the girl was nervous and asked the rugby player to stand behind her as a body guard... she knocked and waited for a second... the door opened and there stood a friendly young lad who had a great variety of flavours and strengths and was very helpful. And they all lived happily ever after.


A second story...

A girl bought a pretty little driptip from her favourite online supplier. It was petite and a delightful shade of powder blue. Not long into vaping, the girl had a visit one evening from the gentleman (term used loosely!) she was (for want of a better word) 'involved' with. The following morning, the girl got out of bed, showered and returned to her room to find the guy in his birthday suit. As she got ready for a long day, he sat on the edge of the bed. She reached for her PV and couldn't find it anywhere. Suddenly, oh the horror, she realised where it was; mouthpiece side down between his legs. As soon as he left, she threw out the cartomiser and soaked the driptip in hydrogen peroxide mouthwash but it was never the same. The pretty, petite, powder blue trip tip was dead; tainted by the grossness that was this hideous man. RIP pretty, petite, powder blue drip tip...


And last but my no means least (I've posted this elsewhere)
Once upon a time there was a manual 510 style battery. It was attached to a 510atomiser and the atomiser was attached to a tank because the owner, Rachy, had not yet realised that a standard resistance cartomiser would be infinitely better. One day, Rachy put the ecig in her bag, planning to show it to her lovely friend. But when Rachy arrived at uni, the ecig was gone! It had magically vanished into thin air! A few weeks later, Rachy's lovely friend was able to see an ecig and even borrowed one for a few days! As if by magic, though, when Rachy returned home, she reached into her handbag for a bottle of juice and felt something strange. It felt long and thin, like a pen. Or a 510-t ecig! Yet the item was under the lining of the bag.Excitedly, Rachy groped around the inside of her bag, wondering how this item had gotten there. Finally she found it, the hole in the lining of the bag! She pushed the strange object under the lining towards the tear and suddenly, there it was, a manual 510 battery on an atomiser with a tank! Rachy could hardly contain her joy and was reminded of the final episode of sex and the city although she hoped she looked less like a horse than Sarah Jessica Parker. But only a few weeks later, the battery had vanished again! Rachy was sure she'd heard something battery-like fall off her desk but it was nowhere to be found. This made Rachy very sad but at least she had four others as spares and a PCC...Rachy was disappointed by the sad, sad, loss of her manual 510 battery and had all but given up hope... One day, she was rooting through the bottom of her make up bag when, lo, there was the missing 510 battery! The moral of the story is- clean out your handbags and makeup bags more often!x