weslypipes Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I was thinking about the first time i ever smoked a hookah and it made me laugh so I thought id start this thread. Post stories about the first time mistakes you made while smokeing for the first time. Or mistakes other people made while you were smokeing with them. The first time I smoked, I set up everything according to a guide i found online. I was very excited after reading up on all things hookah. I had my hookah on my girlfriends bed (first mistake) in front of me. I was sitting in a small circle complete with my gf and one of her friends, when it was her friends turn, she grabed the hose and since it was a short hose and the valve was facing me, it caused the hookah to tip and the coals fell on my legs, i got up and the coals did a crazy flip, landing in my gf's lap, she freaked out and fell off the bed, and while i was getting her up, the broken up coal was burning all over the bed, I had to hurry and pick each little shard with my fingers and throw them in a cup of water. Also while all this was happening. the tipped hoookah was spilling all over the bed. A much needed cleaning and a very angry girlfriend was the result of my first hookah smoking lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang67n Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wow.. that is the most epic fail of hookahness I believe I've ever heard! haha. I'm glad the hobby survived that ordeal, and you chose to still persue smoking hookah! Most of my mistakes were poor bowl packs, too much heat, too little heat, not enough water, washing unwashable hoses, etc. I've never had any insane shenanigans like you described, wesley. I've had very smooth sailing now that I think about it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Been so long but most of my mistakes were stuff like m67; not doing things right, washing unwashables, etc. One thing you only do once is pick up a coal you dropped on the carpet and put it right back on. Another bad one is trying to purge way too hard or getting a stuck ball bearing and shooting water all over your coal/shisha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicagoRSX Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 My first time I inhaled kinda like how you inhale a cigarette, not drawing the smoke over my tongue. I couldn't understand the big deal about hookah. Lol The next time I inhaled over my tongue and like" This is Damn good!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S3cretz Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 MY first time ... sigh(do take into account I was very young) Me and a buddy bought a cheap hookah from a flea market with 3 packs of afzal. And the most horrid soex quicklites. We thought hoookah worked as follows. A Take tobacco and dump into base. B Fill base completely with water. C Apply stem. D apply bowl on top of stem. E put coal in bowl. F ???? G smoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslypipes Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='ChicagoRSX' timestamp='1326916227' post='535968'] My first time I inhaled kinda like how you inhale a cigarette, not drawing the smoke over my tongue. I couldn't understand the big deal about hookah. Lol The next time I inhaled over my tongue and like" This is Damn good!" [/quote] lol i did the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
â€On Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='S3cretz' timestamp='1326923148' post='535992'] MY first time ... sigh(do take into account I was very young) Me and a buddy bought a cheap hookah from a flea market with 3 packs of afzal. And the most horrid soex quicklites. We thought hoookah worked as follows. A Take tobacco and dump into base. B Fill base completely with water. C Apply stem. D apply bowl on top of stem. E put coal in bowl. F ???? G smoke [/quote] Don't feel bad, most of the tv and film industry thinks this way as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslypipes Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 [quote name='S3cretz' timestamp='1326923148' post='535992'] MY first time ... sigh(do take into account I was very young) Me and a buddy bought a cheap hookah from a flea market with 3 packs of afzal. And the most horrid soex quicklites. We thought hoookah worked as follows. A Take tobacco and dump into base. B Fill base completely with water. C Apply stem. D apply bowl on top of stem. E put coal in bowl. F ???? G smoke [/quote] Thats amazing.. lol. I had read that milk made your smoke thicker, so i filled my base up with milk (not knowing it did the crazy bubbly thing), plus i sat on the floor while my hookah was on a table and i guess i wasnt thinking of gravity at the time. I got a mouth full of blue berry milk. I hesitated spitting it out cause it didnt taste to bad, but I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='aeon' timestamp='1326923920' post='535995'] [quote name='S3cretz' timestamp='1326923148' post='535992'] MY first time ... sigh(do take into account I was very young) Me and a buddy bought a cheap hookah from a flea market with 3 packs of afzal. And the most horrid soex quicklites. We thought hoookah worked as follows. A Take tobacco and dump into base. B Fill base completely with water. C Apply stem. D apply bowl on top of stem. E put coal in bowl. F ???? G smoke [/quote] Don't feel bad, most of the tv and film industry thinks this way as well. [/quote] Except he forgot to put the hose in the top of the stem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floataround Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I bought a cheap hookah (thankfully I only spent 20 bucks on it, and its not a pumpkin!) Washed my non washable hoses, Way too much heat Just sort of guessing a water level Throwing quick lights that were not fully ashed on my bowl.. I think the one thing that really worked out was Nakhla, and thats because its pretty hard to mess up Nakhla, even when you just throw it in the bowl lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I lost my virginity to a shitty Sahara Smoke hookah with shitty Hookah-Hookah tobacco using shitty quicklight coals with a shitty Chinese hose at a shitty hookah lounge in Memphis... What a damn shame. I would not even wish this as a first time experience to my enemies (I actually don't think I have any enemies, but still). During the time I owned a Mya QT and smoked AF, shortly after the shitty lounge experience, my friend shot water up the hookah and extinguished the coals by purging too hard. One time after I knew a thing or two, I forgot to put water in the hookah and I actually didn't notice until I went for the first pull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floataround Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='Chreees' timestamp='1326945316' post='536031'] I lost my virginity to a shitty Sahara Smoke hookah with shitty Hookah-Hookah tobacco using shitty quicklight coals with a shitty Chinese hose at a shitty hookah lounge in Memphis... What a damn shame. I would not even wish this as a first time experience to my enemies (I actually don't think I have any enemies, but still). During the time I owned a Mya QT and smoked AF, shortly after the shitty lounge experience, my friend shot water up the hookah and extinguished the coals by purging too hard. One time after I knew a thing or two, I forgot to put water in the hookah and I actually didn't notice until I went for the first pull. [/quote] Reminds me of one more...trying to pull when I had forgot to poke holes. It took me a minute to realize why I could not get anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vendetta_revived Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 My first smoke was from a chinese pumpkin hookah, afzal pan rasna, and shitty quicklites that were lit not even halfway when we put them on the bowl. All this at the house of a friend who had been smoking for an year or so and was considered sort of *the expert* on all things hookah. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it so much due to the company of friends who I had met after a long long time that I bought my own pumpkin and smoked with milk in the base after *researching* good stuff. Bah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Funny stories My first time was nice. I went to a lounge and had Nakhla Tropicana, played scrable and drank Turkish coffee. Then the waiter gave me a free piece of baklava! My idiot mistakes are pretty much due to having no attention span/memory... forgetting to put water in the base, forgetting to poke holes, letting coals burn to ashes on the burner, passing out with noirhead and leaving the container open all night, dropping coals on the hardwood... that kind of stuff. Recently I forgot the tongs and a fumari coal exploded on the carpeted floor in the non-smoking hotel room I was in. That was fun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalsmoke Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 30$ pumpkin hookah, with a shitty chinese hose. bought 5 packs of soex using quicklites my friends taking photos of me because we thought we were hookah experts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslypipes Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='herbalsmoke' timestamp='1326995249' post='536066'] 30$ pumpkin hookah, with a shitty chinese hose. bought 5 packs of soex using quicklites my friends taking photos of me because we thought we were hookah experts. [/quote] we did that too after that big catastrophe i explained. We thought our clouds were monstrous, but i look back back at the pictures and they were pretty shitty lol, I was using the pumpkin hookah too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo21 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 ok so i do only have or remember one really bad hookah fail it was acutlly like 2 months ago i was smoking at teh lounge and i packed up my buddies hookah cause he was lazy and i always get to be the designated packer so i packed it all up and it was a mini maya and so i started smoking it after i took it to him and was like WTF is wrong with this thing look at it its fine then i pick it up again NO WATER FAIL PAVO! lol But when i work at the lounge a very common question that i have is why isn't my hookah smoking and 95% of the time people put dry coals on top of the bowl thinking the coals are the flavor FAIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslypipes Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 [quote name='Pavo21' timestamp='1327004309' post='536105'] ok so i do only have or remember one really bad hookah fail it was acutlly like 2 months ago i was smoking at teh lounge and i packed up my buddies hookah cause he was lazy and i always get to be the designated packer so i packed it all up and it was a mini maya and so i started smoking it after i took it to him and was like WTF is wrong with this thing look at it its fine then i pick it up again NO WATER FAIL PAVO! lol But when i work at the lounge a very common question that i have is why isn't my hookah smoking and 95% of the time people put dry coals on top of the bowl thinking the coals are the flavor FAIL [/quote] Loool. A lot of the people that I smoke with for the first time are like WTF?? when they see the shisha cause they think the coal is what your suppose to smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoozle Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 When I first started smoking in lounges, that's what I thought. I thought the coal was actually compressed flavored tobacco. One day I was at a lounge and a dude went around with a coal carrier putting fresh coals on every pipe in the lounge and I was like how does he know which flavor is which? How did he refresh my pipe with the right flavor? I asked him then he explained everything to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weslypipes Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 [quote name='Skoozle' timestamp='1327007660' post='536124'] When I first started smoking in lounges, that's what I thought. I thought the coal was actually compressed flavored tobacco. One day I was at a lounge and a dude went around with a coal carrier putting fresh coals on every pipe in the lounge and I was like how does he know which flavor is which? How did he refresh my pipe with the right flavor? I asked him then he explained everything to me. [/quote] Lol it seems right since it's the only thing you see hot and smoking. I lit a quick lite coal one time while my dad was over and he smelt the nasty smoke that came off of it and he "couldn't believe I was smoking that nasty sh*t". I had to explain to him what was going on and now he wants one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hah, funny stories! My first time smoking hookah? I lit an quicklite indoor then dropped it and burned the carpet I was just standing there and thinking "what should I do?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 [quote name='Skeletor' timestamp='1327344226' post='536411'] Hah, funny stories! My first time smoking hookah? I lit an quicklite indoor then dropped it and burned the carpet I was just standing there and thinking "what should I do?" [/quote] Grab it with your fingers!!! Yeah, I've actually done this before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 [quote name='Chreees' timestamp='1327345459' post='536413'] [quote name='Skeletor' timestamp='1327344226' post='536411'] Hah, funny stories! My first time smoking hookah? I lit an quicklite indoor then dropped it and burned the carpet I was just standing there and thinking "what should I do?" [/quote] Grab it with your fingers!!! Yeah, I've actually done this before... [/quote] Should have tried that! Was it success or was it disaster? Your fingers will tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 [quote name='Skeletor' timestamp='1327346653' post='536416'] [quote name='Chreees' timestamp='1327345459' post='536413'] [quote name='Skeletor' timestamp='1327344226' post='536411'] Hah, funny stories! My first time smoking hookah? I lit an quicklite indoor then dropped it and burned the carpet I was just standing there and thinking "what should I do?" [/quote] Grab it with your fingers!!! Yeah, I've actually done this before... [/quote] Should have tried that! Was it success or was it disaster? Your fingers will tell! [/quote] Oh I got the coals. But my fingers hated me afterwards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalsmoke Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I remember going to a lounge thinking that the coals were the flavour too. On the menue it said 2$ for extra coal And i was like WOAH! for 1 dollars i can get a brand new flavour tablet? This is awesome! Then i went home and googled it and felt so stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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