How Did You Get Into Smoking Hookah?

[Roninjinn]

First time was not planned.

A friend of mine asked if we wanted to go downtown and visit this restaurant called Ibiza. I said sure, and we went down with a large group of college girls, who had all been there. They ordered a couple of hookah's, and once they explained it to me, I ordered one for myself, my g/f, and my friend who was with us. We smoked mixed fruit the first time, not sure what brand. It was a GREAT time, and I've been hooked ever since.

[DyinTuLive]

my best friends showed up at my house on day with one , explained , and i been in love ever since.....Call it the best blind date a man can have

[Hamilton]

i actually had my first experience with a friend from work. He's like "Ever smoked hookah?" to a bunch of us "nope" "okay, come over" so we went to his house and he lit up a tiny little hookah, I smoked it like a fiend. Ever sense.

[Johnny_D]

I got into when working around the middle east.

Just fell in love with it. Hot afternoons we'd sit in the local bar and smoke with the locals
If we were out on site we'd set a tent and sit under it with a portal A/C blowing into the tent

JD

[Smileys Ulti]

My Grandfather started me off.Early 11 years old I was learning to prepare a Hookah for the men after dinner. I got my first one at age 15th bday. I'm not Arabic.But i had a best friend was persian. His grandfather taught both of us how to prepare for the smokeing session.
Smiley

[ghostofdavid]

Well, I've always told bits and pieces about how I got into hookah.

A couple of years back a good friend of mine introduced me to hookah. He does social gospel work with the disenfranchised and his (now) wife works with prostitutes and helps them leave that lifestyle if they decide it is not for them. They basically go to the places you shouldn't go and do what they can to help people. They've been to Thailand, Burhma, China (mainland and ports), and bad parts of Hawaii and Las Vegas (hee hee!). Somewhere along the line, my best bro got me a hookah in his trips to Las Vegas and flew back to Indiana to hang out with me before going BACK to China for a year or so. He, at first, gave me his hookah to watch over it while he was gone. He showed me how to set it up and how to ash the coals and we used to basically smoke different flavours of Nakhla and unmarked shisha he got from the Las Vegas place. I drew up a tounge-in-cheek contract that says that if I lost it or broke it, I would be in his debt forever. I get a phone call from him from China and he told me that rather than be the guardian of his beloved hookah, that I could have it.

Then a while after that, it got bojangled/boosted/lifted out of my car while I was moving.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. That hookah meant more to me than most of my other possessions and I was heart broken when I told him that it was stolen.

Then, this past summer Matt and his wife returned and we smoked out of my QT and I tried to give it to him as a peace offering... but, being the stellar guy that he is, told me to keep it. I haven't seen him since then!!! MISS YA BIG GUY. I'm gonna go drink a beer in his absence.

[ahuwood]

well i live in so. cal and hookah is very trendy around here. There are like 7 different hookah bars in anaheim alone.
My friend and i wanted to do something for our 18th birthdays so we decided to try hookah. We went to a hookah bar a few times and then we each bought one of our own...the rest is history.

[maxy3546]

I want to switzerland two summers ago to take some french courses. My dorm had 7 saudis living in it with four hookahs. The hookah was a sort of simple communication (they spoke no english i spoke no arabic). I was hooked.

[Altron]

Last year my friends told me to come chill at a hookah lounge. I was reluctant to start smoking it like most people, but after a few times going there I gave in. Now I smoke too much hahaha.

[not.plugged.in]

i was on one of those through your school trips things to italy and greece in 9th grade and while in greece we found this thing that looked like what the catapillar in alice and wonderland was smoking out of so a bunch of us chipped in to buy it and check it out. (this was way before i knew what the instrument was) the shop keeper sold us the stuff and visually showed us how to use it. sadly it was taken away from the kid at customs

several years later i noticed that there were hookah bars popping up in my town so i went to the one nearby one night to see what exactly a hookah was and realized i smoked out of one of these before and about 4 months later i bought my own

[AndrewM]

totally 100% bass ackwards. i was in a head shop lookin for... well.. the usual things you buy in a usual headshop in that usually crappy part of town... and i stumbled onto a hookah.. figured ide use it for.. the usual... and then read up on it, tried it out.. found a whole scene and a group of people i meshed with and loved it, never actually used my hookah for the usual and never intend to.

long story short... it was an accident gone totally right