What has your REO been mistaken for?

[rel322]

So I 'm sitting in class (tax, boring as hell) and I hear a classmate sitting a few seats down from me asking another one sitting a little closer to me, what my REO was. (I have a Black/Black Reo Grand w/510 Joye Atty, with an extender with a clearish pawn drip tip) I had to inform her that yes it's an electronic cigarette. (yes, i leave my Reo out in class, so i don't have to worry about it in my pocket.)

But during our break it started a small conversion of what it looks like. One of my classmates stated it looked like a detonator of some sort, another one said it looked like a walkie-talkie if the Drip tip wasn't on it, but the most surprising was that one of them thought it was a sex toy!

So i'm wondering, do any of you have any stories about what people thought your Reo was?

 

[TennDave]

Definitely a sex toy...isn't it??

Nah, I've gotten the denotator as well as walkie talkie quite a bit
Otherwise, at an outdoor concert folks wanted to use mine....but once I told them it was nicotine, there wasn't much interest..
I really don't know much else.

 

[Bullwinkle]

Mine often gets mistaken for an illegal substance delivery device.

I usually vape on the downlow because the cops around here will toss you in a cell and let the judge and crime lab sort it out.

It is usually easier to avoid trouble than to extricate oneself from it.

 

[Jixchel]

My kids say it looks like a juice box, had a 306 xl clear drip tip on it

 

[Della Cirque]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/reos-mods/302559-two-way-radios.html

 

[Sterno]

asma device

 

[kabonk]

I've had my VVW mistaken for a .......ya, it's not legal.

 

[canoeist]

Most just ask me. Then offer up a comment such as.... Oh yea I am using a Mystic. To which I think "you poor thing"

 

[Xaria]

Not a visual mistake, but an audible one. The door sliding has been mistaken for a zippo lighter.


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[jifjifjif]

My brother has gotten the detonator comment also.

 

[TennDave]

My brother has gotten the detonator comment also.

Yeah, this has been a real problem for me...
Took son to the airport this morning (you are gonna read about it in National news..ugh)...
Airport security thought I had a detonator...extra police were called....the swat team arrived.
They shut the whole airport down and swarmed me...I ran!!! They caught up, tackled me and wrestled my Reo Grand out of my hands...hog tied me and threw my Grand in a discharge tank and (me still on the ground), waited and waited...
I tried to tell them it was a Reo Grand...."What's that, some new type of bomb?" snapped the officer...
Finally, when I was fully interrogated and given my Grand back, (no formal apologies)....
I took a 10 second draw (with button pushed)...everyone was holding their arms over their faces and heads....
I then blew huge plumes of vapor into my oppressor's faces...and walked out the door!

 

[Tracker1861]

Walkie talkie more than a few times.

 

[Tracker1861]

Yeah, this has been a real problem for me...
Took son to the airport this morning (you are gonna read about it in National news..ugh)...
Airport security thought I had a detonator...extra police were called....the swat team arrived.
They shut the whole airport down and swarmed me...I ran!!! They caught up, tackled me and wrestled my Reo Grand out of my hands...hog tied me and threw my Grand in a discharge tank and (me still on the ground), waited and waited...
I tried to tell them it was a Reo Grand...."What's that, some new type of bomb?" snapped the officer...
Finally, when I was fully interrogated and given my Grand back, (no formal apologies)....
I took a 10 second draw (with button pushed)...everyone was holding their arms over their faces and heads....
I then blew huge plumes of vapor into my oppressor's faces...and walked out the door!

Nice!

 

[alexvander123]

Dave I was smiling ear to ear after that story. My dad thinks all of my smaller devices look like things he used to use back in the day

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[Skeeter T]

Vinnie, Brigitte, my wife and I are going to Outback Steakhouse tomorrow for dinner. Now Vinnie, an Italian, born in Sicily and arrived in the USA at least 50 years ago, doesn't speak the best English. In fact, when I first met him, I didn't understand him at all. He's like Scotch, you have to acquire a taste for it. According to Vinnie, we're going to Out-a-back Shteack-a-house.

To Vinnie, a "bump" is on a car ... one in the front, and one in the back (bumpers). It took me a long time to figure that out. Chockel is chocolate. Any two word combination with the first word ending in "k", always has an "a" between them, like spark-a-plug, back-a-pack and pork-a-chop.

Anyway, Vinnie calls my Grand or Mini a walk-a-talk. When he's around, I'll pick one up and speak into it saying, "Vinnie, are you there?", and he always answers with the same Italian 3 word phrase that I shouldn't repeat on this forum, but I'm sure you've heard Italians say it. It begins with "Ah".

 

[TennDave]

Skeeter T, when your Reo starts talking back to you, you need to make an appointment with me!
"Vape-a-me!! Squonk -a- me!!" Actually, it would have been easier when I started if my Reo would tell me when I needed to squonk!!

 

[Skeeter T]

TennDave, When my REO starts talking back, it's my time for the funny farm. Actually I don't think you're far from the truth. The future REO will probably have some type of squonk indicator. And the future after that will have a controlled auto feed system (no squonking required).

Do an internet search for MIT's Microchip Gas-Turbine Engine. With miniaturization like this, anything is possible.

 

[TennDave]

Funny you mention all of this- it's all been thought of alreedy
My invention- the Reo-Droid with Auto-Squonk!!
The juice bottle replaced by an internal mylar sleeve with a micro-motor w/ roller that rolls over the sleeve to auto-squonk for you!!

 

[davelog]

I've been told my VVW looks like Morgan Fairchild, but not by reputable sources.