Seriously..... When Did Vaping Get Taken Over By The Scene Kids?

[Ro Botski]

I'm a 40 year old female who has yet to be in a vape shop. I started vaping last year, and I'm down to only a few analogs per day from a 20 year, pack a day plus habit.

I'm a working professional with two young children, and my husband is the only other vaper I know. We're definitely not doing it to be cool - we're vaping because it's been the only smoking cessation method that has been at all effective, and now we also enjoy the hobby aspect of collecting gear.

I don't know how I fit into it all as a middle aged mama who vapes, but I've found great advice, great information, and a sense of community reading through all the messages here on efc!

I'm a 34 year old dude that started vaping about 20 months ago for the same reason, to kill a 40+ cigarette a day, 20 year habit. The day my father quit smoking he put two full cartons of Marlboros, all his cigars, pipes and pipe tobacco in a bag and put them on the curb at 5am when he left for work, and at 7am when I left for school... Yoink.

I'm down to just vaping, having cut off cigarettes (I don't like "analogs". Vaping isn't always digital, and cigarettes aren't analogous to anything but smelling like an ashtray) entirely 18 months and 7 days ago

 

[Vaping_Racoon]

This thread made me laugh so hard.

On a side note: maybe you're a little bit paranoid, the kids aren't out to get you lol

 

[Bad Ninja]

This thread made me laugh so hard.

On a side note: maybe you're a little bit paranoid, the kids aren't out to get you lol

As long as they stay the hell off my lawn, I have no problem with the kids.

 

[Lessifer]

How dare those young people want to vape! They should be smoking like real rebels

You keep saying that their appearance doesn't really matter, yet you mention it in every post. Bad customer service is bad customer service. I'm just glad SOMEONE is frequenting the B&M's. I haven't been in one in over a year, but it's nice to know they are there if I need them. As long as someone is buying enough stuff to keep the lights on, I don't care who it is.

Vaping isn't only for people kicking a 20 year habit.

BTW, when I started vaping 3 years and 3 days ago, I was kicking a 22 year habit, at age 32.

Much like guilty people see guilt in others, if you think everyone around you is judging you, perhaps you need to look in a different direction.

 

[Vaping_Racoon]

I'm 23 but I smoked for 8 years before I really gone into vaping full time.

 

[choochoogranny]

LOL! Bad Ninja.......And quiet! They gotta be quiet.

 

[MudVaper]

I don't know where I fit into all of this either, I'm 23, not popular, no tattoos or piercings and don't want any, I don't wear trendy clothes (although I try to look good), and I didn't use vaping as a means of quitting smoking (although I did occasionally smoke). I've always been the good kid, never got into trouble or anything, and I didn't start vaping to tick my parents off (although I was afraid they would be anyway) and I pretty much hid it for 6 months. When I told them they were fine with it, just glad I'm not smoking cigarettes (both were long term smokers, mom quit a couple years ago and started vaping recently, dad smokes and vapes but is trying to quit cigs) I vape because I enjoy it. It just so happens I like big clouds and higher wattage I try to be respectful with my vaping, not vaping in stores or other non smoking areas, and not annoying people with clouds.

You guys are the future of everything, and personally, I'm very confident in your abilities.

Even the ones showing their crack and blowing clouds while being rude to old farts in vape shops will come around someday.

I pierced my nose in the late seventies when it was still a shocking act of rebellion and not a fashion statement, lol.

 

[MudVaper]

how the heck did I double post? Whoops, there is no harm, pay no attention to second post, lol.

 

[Completely Average]

 

[David Wolf]

I'm soon to be 47 years old. I've been successfully vaping for over 2 years now. I've ordered a vast majority of my stuff online but every once in awhile, I have to resort to running out to one of my local shops to get something that is an immediate need. (Ran out of cotton or my next juice delivery hasn't arrived.... etc.) Every time I go in these shops, I feel like the creepy old dude that shouldn't be there. They're filled with a bunch of late teen/early 20's kids with shaggy mop tops, gauged ears, pierced everything and skinny jeans. This is both the customers and the employees. I feel like everyone is staring at me like, "what's this old fart doing in here?"

I almost never see people my age vaping out in public unless it's an eGo stick or some other similar device. No one has mods or tanks except for the young kids. Then there's me with my little IPV D2 and Smok TFV4 mini. Meanwhile, the youngsters are all sucking on 200W mods with massive quad coil drippers and puffing away on such tasty sounding flavors like Dying Unicorn Blood and Sasquatch Poop.

I've been vaping off and on practically since vaping first became publicly available. I finally found stuff that worked for me and got off analogs completely. Now I feel like some old dinosaur trying to fit into some scene I'm not a part of just to get some cotton or a roll of wire.

So seriously, when did this become a "scene" thing?

It started when subohm and "big cute clouds" became the latest "thing"

 

[Flawedatdesign]

I figured it out today just go in before school lets out and hit the B&M early on the weekends before the youngens get out of bed lol sad part for me is the fact most shops don't open till 11am lol

 

[MudVaper]

I'll soon be 75, you should see the looks I get when I walk in tootn' a 5 year old Mako with a RDA on it that's so old that they have never seen one before.

If they say anything, I'll just mention that sooner or later they'll learn how to vape.
If they get snarky, I'll just swap out the little bitty 14500 battery in front of them.

You go TJ!

 

[Just Want To Quit]

Someone please enlighten me on how you distinguish "Scenester" (a term I have never heard of in my almost 42 years on this planet) and a "Hipster" because I don't get it.

As far as I'm concerned they are both one and the same.

In the meantime, every single Vape shop out here in So Cal is like this and I can relate to the OP. However I have no problem mingling with the younger crowd and am still quite hip on pop culture even to this day. As long as I'm being treated right, that's all I personally care about.

This is almost exactly what one of the shop owners look like out here in the San Fernando Valley. I kid you not:

Redirect Notice

3rd guy from the top right.. I swear that is him!

 

[sincerelysasquatch]

Scene kid female:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxmAWbN6lys/Th4QRwTpIcI/AAAAAAAAAK4/ziZVCbLnOeE/s1600/00.jpg
Scene kid male:
scene guy

hipster guy:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/10/2681F94C00000578-2986776-image-a-1_1426005646716.jpg
hipster girl:
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/thre...king-camera-over-gray-background-52458758.jpg

Just a general guide. Scene kids are usually teens to early-mid 20's. Hipsters are typically mid 20's to mid-late 30's. That is my experience, anyway. Hipsters more often have natural hair colors and the males tend to have Hitler Youth haircuts and beards. lol

Examples:
Hitler youth haircut, check.
Beard, check.

http://allhailtheblackmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photobytimyesco.jpg

 

[WillieB69]

You keep saying that their appearance doesn't really matter, yet you mention it in every post. Bad customer service is bad customer service.

I mention it because that is who is giving the bad customer service and filling up the shops. It's a description, not a judgement. I don't care that they're younger or how they dress. What I care about is that this particular crowd almost goes out of its way to make you feel like you're invading their territory unless you're one of them. And that's IF they acknowledge your existence at all. It's not just the people working there but the people frequenting the shop as well. They treat it more like a clubhouse than a store and you're not in their club unless you're young and look like them.

 

[Stewart Jarvis-Grove]

Also I must confess sometimes when stressed after work instead of drinking alcohol, I get a really tasty juice in my subtank nano and use it as a pleasure that combines - for me - the action of smoking and the pleasure and taste and light buzz of drinking all in one.

I love vaping.

Same here, you are the first i've seen on here state it is a substitute for cigarettes and booze. I got in to the habit of drinking 3 or 4 beers every evening and at the weekends savouring a bottle of red Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. After a few years my body started complaining!

Since the start of this year i'm vaping instead. Also high VG at 30W on 0.5 ohm coil in a Subtank. It's nice to read someone else is doing something similar

 

[sparkky1]

How dare those young people want to vape! They should be smoking like real rebels

You keep saying that their appearance doesn't really matter, yet you mention it in every post. Bad customer service is bad customer service. I'm just glad SOMEONE is frequenting the B&M's. I haven't been in one in over a year, but it's nice to know they are there if I need them. As long as someone is buying enough stuff to keep the lights on, I don't care who it is.

Vaping isn't only for people kicking a 20 year habit.

BTW, when I started vaping 3 years and 3 days ago, I was kicking a 22 year habit, at age 32.

Much like guilty people see guilt in others, if you think everyone around you is judging you, perhaps you need to look in a different direction.

Or in the mirror .................

 

[WattWick]

Scene kid female:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxmAWbN6lys/Th4QRwTpIcI/AAAAAAAAAK4/ziZVCbLnOeE/s1600/00.jpg
Scene kid male:
scene guy

hipster guy:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/10/2681F94C00000578-2986776-image-a-1_1426005646716.jpg
hipster girl:
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/thre...king-camera-over-gray-background-52458758.jpg

Just a general guide. Scene kids are usually teens to early-mid 20's. Hipsters are typically mid 20's to mid-late 30's. That is my experience, anyway. Hipsters more often have natural hair colors and the males tend to have Hitler Youth haircuts and beards. lol

Examples:
Hitler youth haircut, check.
Beard, check.

http://allhailtheblackmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photobytimyesco.jpg

So... scenester guys are sort of like a crossbreed between a freshly showered emo and a brony?

Judgemental? Me? Noooo...

(Not to be taken too seriously! However nauseatingly PC it may sound; I rather enjoy watching different styles coming and going. But - it's always in the back of my mind, this thing this Indian guru guy told a punk-ish friend of mine, years ago. "The freak is in the mind, not in the clothes".)

 

[sparkky1]

I mention it because that is who is giving the bad customer service and filling up the shops. It's a description, not a judgement. I don't care that they're younger or how they dress. What I care about is that this particular crowd almost goes out of its way to make you feel like you're invading their territory unless you're one of them. And that's IF they acknowledge your existence at all. It's not just the people working there but the people frequenting the shop as well. They treat it more like a clubhouse than a store and you're not in their club unless you're young and look like them.

Seriously ?
You speak like your talking about a bunch of members of the hells angels hanging out there, so it's a hang out for kids / younger vapers, you walk in tell them what you need, wipe the judgement off your face and be the adult and pay, so you get skipped by a hot young female, what your describing is a very low budget, non managed vape shop, again, spend the money to drive further to get the vip treatment ................

 

[WillieB69]

Seriously ?
You speak like your talking about a bunch of members of the hells angels hanging out there, so it's a hang out for kids / younger vapers, you walk in tell them what you need, wipe the judgement off your face and be the adult and pay, so you get skipped by a hot young female, what your describing is a very low budget, non managed vape shop, again, spend the money to drive further to get the vip treatment ................

I guess we can agree to see things differently. The way I see it, you can either have a business or you can have a hangout for a bunch of kids to play video games and vape up all your house juice. If that's how they want to run things, so be it but I don't see any of the shops in this town lasting long at that rate. And no, they're not the Hell's Angels. More like a bunch of little Chihuahuas ...... on everything to mark their territory.

As far as driving further to go to a different shop that would be an hour trip to KC. No thanks. If that's my only other option, I'd rather just spend the extra money for overnight shipping. Which is what I'll probably start doing.