Vaping used to be more social

[Vaslovik]

Back when I started vaping, just two years ago it was a very new thing for me and most others I met who were getting into it. We were all exploring, trying new things, working out what worked for us, asking each other questions about it. If I went to a bar with my vape I'd be asked what it was, what kind of juice I was vaping, and I'd ask others the same questions. We all learned and socialized our vaping in that way. It was great, a social ice-breaker that brought people together. Not so much anymore.

Now vaping is so commonplace where I live it's not even a viable topic of conversation. I saw another woman at the bar earlier using a mod I'd never seen before, and when I asked her what it was she seemed annoyed that I asked. I don't know, maybe she thought I was a lesbian hitting on her, but it seems that the social aspect of vaping has faded into the past. I don't see vape-meets anymore, and no one cares enough about the subject to talk about it. Whatever you might be vaping is now on the level of what size shoes you wear.

The only place you can talk vaping is online, which is a poor substitute for in-person social contact in which you share with each other. Most people vaping here use what amounts to a starter kit, which took the place of their packs of Morleys, which they also never socialized over. Now I can see that a starter kit is nothing to get social over, but different mods and attys? I used to have some great social times over those, but it would now seem to be a thing of the past. Sad.

 

[Rule62]

I don't know where in Florida you are, but Central Florida has a large vaping community; over 1000 members in their FB group, and there is a vape meet nearly every weekend someplace.

 

[coolerat]

Lottsa people excited about it in CNY.

Great thing about vaping is it crosses all lines so I talk with people now of all ages, races, preferences and the whole she-bang.

My other hobby, woodworking, is all fat bald middle aged white guys. Like me.

Running through my head all the intresting people I've talked to locally about vaping recently.

A lawyer. In a suit. And we talked about vaping not what I was going to be doing for the next 1-3 years.

Bunch of middle aged fat bald white guys.

A woman who I think I've seen on TV. I've never been that close to such beauty and certianly it didn't talk back to me. But we talked about vaping.

Younger people. I can usually just stand to be around my own kids but some of these vapers have alot I can learn. And sometimes I teach them. And they listen. Outside of vaping I can't recall the last time a young adult listened to me.

 

[Steelgirl]

I rarely even see anyone vaping. But then I don't go anywhere either lol. Work n home. Out to lunch a couple times a week. Eat at bar so I can vape. Waiters vape, so I talk to them a bit.

 

[Mogar]

I went to a renfair a while back and struck up a conversation with a person I had never met before vaping. After about 30 min there were almost 10 of us all of us passing our mods around tasting each others juice...
Smokers would never do that "hay, how does your stinky taste? lemme take a drag"

 

[a9g]

I agree with your comments. I suppose it depends on your location as well. I travel a lot and notice quite a difference depending on where I am.

 

[fishj]

I like the juices at The Vape Store on Del Prado(Cape Coma), but they are too interested in wrapping and drilling and fogging and ignoring you to start a conversation. The guys at the juice warehouse are just the opposite. You should try living where I do where people look at you like an alien if you are vaping.

 

[TeamSwish]

I have never seen anyone vape, besides the inside of a B&M shop. Granted, my 3-5 days a week going to the bar are behind me. I know people do because I know of like 5 B&M shops around me. I would love to talk to someone IRL. I'm slowly but surely getting past newbie status and have someone eventually show me the steps of coil building, etc.

 

[VCross]

Not sure if there's a subforum for it and if there is I must've missed it but there should be a subforum for each state/country/general area so that people on the forums can get together and do their own impromptu vape meets. I live in SoCal so you would think there would be a lot of those but I've never even heard of one. Although I think there is an Electronic Cigarette Convention coming up soon nearby. I've never been to one before but I'm definitely going to try to make it to this one.

 

[K_Tech]

Other than in a local vape shop that I don't frequent, I've only seen one other vaper in the wild around here. I probably would "hang out" at the vape shop if I wasn't twice the age of the average customer, lol.

 

[Vaslovik]

I like the juices at The Vape Store on Del Prado(Cape Coma), but they are too interested in wrapping and drilling and fogging and ignoring you to start a conversation. The guys at the juice warehouse are just the opposite. You should try living where I do where people look at you like an alien if you are vaping.

I know just what you mean, that's where I got my Kraken, and you are right. I make my own juice, so I don't even have that to talk to them about, and one girl there is completely absorbed in her phone and just sits there vaping and playing with her phone ignoring you. I think you can only get their attention there if you walk in with a stacked 26650 topped with a giant dripper and start blowing bigger clouds than theirs.

 

[VNeil]

Vaping is not yet so commonplace here that it isn't a good ice breaking topic of conversation. I see more and more people vaping but especially the newbies with eGo setups are very interested in my not so special mods.

 

[Vaslovik]

I probably would "hang out" at the vape shop if I wasn't twice the age of the average customer, lol.

LOL! I heard that! I think you also need lots of tats, piercings, and multi-colored hair.

Not sure if there's a subforum for it and if there is I must've missed it but there should be a subforum for each state/country/general area so that people on the forums can get together and do their own impromptu vape meets.

There was a sub-forum for Florida, which is prolly still out there, but very little ever got posted to it.

 

[tj99959]

Ya, I can remember when we waved every time we saw someone else driving a Volkswagen too.

 

[jbok]

In my area it's kind of a mixed crowd. The 50+ group want to be left alone, the 18-25 you really don't want to talk to. Its the nice creamy center of the 26-40ish that tend to be the more social.


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[supertrunker]

40-50, the lost decade.

T

 

[DoctorJ]

B I saw another woman at the bar earlier using a mod I'd never seen before, and when I asked her what it was she seemed annoyed that I asked.

It's instances like what you've described that make me glad I work mostly from home and I don't really go out that much unless I have to. It seems that over the past 10 years or so, the more people I meet, the more I want to stay at home so I don't take a chance of running into more people like that and punching them in the face

 

[Rocketpunk]

Those experiences are still happening to this day, you're just not immediately aware of them. Here in Ohio, I have people who could talk my ears off about vaping. For a lot of veterans, myself included, now that we've found setups that work best for us, and juices in regular rotation, there isn't much left to talk about vaping. With the exception of advocacy, education, and activism, I couldn't care less about the technology aspect anymore. You should maybe check out VapeTV, and if you have any B&M's in your area, talk to them all and inquire into organizing a vape meet in your town. Maybe start a Facebook page for a Vapers Club in your home city or area. I have a good friend who started a FB page for our town here in Ohio, she approached every single B&M on her own, networked, and now the club has the support of almost all the local legit B&M's, t-shirts, and has organized all the recent vape meets and bashes. So it's still happening. If it isn't near you, start making it happen on your own!

 

[Vaslovik]

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It's instances like what you've described that make me glad I work mostly from home and I don't really go out that much unless I have to. It seems that over the past 10 years or so, the more people I meet, the more I want to stay at home so I don't take a chance of running into more people like that and punching them in the face

I can relate to that. It's like if people don't already know you they don't want to, unless they can use you for something. And yes, I've noticed the same thing over the last ten years. When I got into vaping there was a respite for a while, until vaping became so commonplace, and it was back to the same social coldness.

 

[SomeTexan]

I can relate to that. It's like if people don't already know you they don't want to, unless they can use you for something. And yes, I've noticed the same thing over the last ten years. When I got into vaping there was a respite for a while, until vaping became so commonplace, and it was back to the same social coldness.

Most vapers I run into are friendly. Walking to a store, having a puff before I get there, another vaper will see me and hold up their mod and wave. I've been at a restaurant, in the smoking section with a friend that smokes, my mod sitting on a table and me not even touching it and I got told to put it in my car by the waitress, it's not allowed at all. I told her I had no intention of using it indoors but she didn't care. I told her to go eff herself and got up to leave, and was followed by 3/4 of the people there. They showed their mods as they were leaving and told her off worse than I did. The manager came out before we left, said she was fired and all our meals were free. Then showed us his mod. We turned the smoking area into a vape lounge for the next 3 hours, about 40 people just hanging out bs'ing about vaping. Only bad experiance I've had was a smoker coming into my favorite vape shop and trying to start trash. He got in an older woman's face so I let him kiss my elbow then we flung him out the door and went back to hanging out. Cops stopped by, arrested him for trespassing and that was it. Yall must live in some ghetto areas...