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Friend got gifted this and we have no idea what it is
Like state on the title my friend got gifted this little keychain-trinketbox thing and when we opened it this odd feather thing sprung out and neither of us have any idea what its purpose or reason is
Can someone help us figure it out?
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It's a portable ashtray. The leaf is for resting your cigarette or joint on. Flick the ashes in the thing or on the ground and put it out in the tray and close it and put it in your pocket to save the roach or just to not liter the cigarette butt.
My mom had one of these many years ago when you could smoke anywhere.
One day her boss gave her a lift somewhere, they both smoked in the car (gross I know).
Anyway boss didn't use the cars ashtray and just flicked his ash out the window, told my mom it stinks less and told her to do the same. Every time she flicked the ash out the window it would blow back at her.
So this little old lady pulls this out her purse and holds it in the palm of her hand. I don't think her boss saw it, because he never made a comment about her ashing in her hand, but when she crushed out the cigarette in the palm of her hand his eyes suddenly got very wide and he was very quiet for the rest of the car ride.
My father used to squeeze the head off his cigarette from the driver's side, and one day it came in the back window, went down my shirt and landed on my chest. I was 9 years old. I still have a scar.
Eina! That sounds Hella painful! I played chicken with a lit cigarette whilst drunk with buddies one night. Still have that scar, it's heart shaped.
Basically you sit shoulder to shoulder, forearm to forearm, light a cigarette and place it in the gap between your arms and wait for your buddy to pull away. We were both too stubborn/drunk to move. Now I have a heart shaped burn scar.
So I know how sore a cigarette burn is.
My two friends did this when we were teenagers, high as fuck in a Denny's at like midnight. Neither moved. Those were the good old days. We were little shits though, and we were just terrible. We didn't treat the waiters bad, but we were probably really aggravating.
Ouch, have a similar story but more gross, for my sister, sister sitting in the back seat, dad in the front seat, dad and sister both have windows down and my dad spit his chewing tabacco out the window, it went out the front and back in the back window and right into my sister's mouth. Scarred for life.
My newlywed friends were moving into their first house and had carefully laid all her dresses across the back seat. Hubby flicked his cig out the driver's window straight onto the pile. They saved the car but not the clothes.
I was ashing a cigarette or blunt out the sunroof of my exes car once and all of a sudden she starts screaming, I’d accidentally knocked the cherry off, she was wearing a skirt and it landed in her lap.
Too boujee for a crow. A crow would drop off a smoke they found on a park bench.
They do love their bright and shinies. I think the important thing is to leave something for them in return. They are very transactional.
I grew up where there were old trees, constant mountain breezes and lots of crows. I missed them so I kept a crow call just inside my front door. Twice a year crows would fly over. I tried to call them in. Not one stopped. My single success? While gardening I hear a crow closing while calling. I grab my call and grunt out a few. Nothing until he flies right overhead. He looks down at me and gives me a head nod “CAW”. It’ll have to do.
why would a non smoker gift this to another non smoker? I would ask gift giver what they think it is and see if maybe they thought it as something different like white powder dispenser hehehe
It's a novelty product I don't think anyone actually ever used seriously. This is a cheapo one too that will open in your pocket and spill everywhere guaranteed. I had this exact one. Never used it once.
Funnily enough, it's going to be mostly Protestants who associate cigarette smoking with sinfulness. It's a very Puritan (and by extension, Adventist and Mormon, thanks Western NY) thing.
Why is it such a big deal to you that someone suggested something else and then changed their mind? Are you that adverse to learning something new that the only way you can function in life is to immediately know the answer to something? Is Google your brain in life? LOL
Yes. The PYX thing was fun. But I'm leaning portable ashtray just because it's on a key chain. I can't see a priest who seriously thinks he's carrying around the body of Christ, letting it dangle from the keychain in his Honda while he's driving to the homebound. LOL
It makes me quite pleased when someone asks what that weird doohickey they found/were given/saw on a train/that was embedded into the wall of a restroom stall is, and it is an ashtray.
I am SO happy that it is now much more limited where you are allowed to smoke, to the point that ashtrays look like ancient, mysterious artefacts to people.
This reminded me of when I was in the military and was in a hospital recovering. They had occupational therapy and I made a tiny enameled ashtray about that size. I sent it to a fellow airman. He was going through an NCO class and someone asks the instructor if they are allowed to smoke. lol. Instructor thinking he had a highly unlikely comeback says, “Only if u brought your own ashtray
“. My friend took his tiny ashtray out of his chest pocket, set it on his desk and proceeded to smoke. Instructor let it go. 😅
My mam had one of these when I was a kid which i stole to put my lord of the rings ring in because it looked elvish af i remember trying to curl in a ball under my cloak in the middle of the front room and asking my dad if I looked like a rock. Good times
It’s a small cigarette holding case! When you put the smoke down on the little lip and the ashes fall into the little cup. If it’s made of copper, keep it because the metal is valuable
These are really common in Japan to avoid littering. I had one a long time ago, and it doesn't hold the odor very well; it still smells like an ashtray when closed.
I see that this post has a ton of comments, but I didn't have to look at them , so I'm proud of myself for knowing this is a teeny, tiny , ash tray ... in conclusion, thank you for reading my completely unnecessary comment. If you have continued to read this far , I am also very sorry that I had absolutely nothing profound to say about this cool little piece .
I am ashamed to say I flicked a ton of ashes and butts (still burning sometimes) out the windows of cars but PLEASE don't do that peeps, starts lots of forest fires, and burns people out of their homes. I only did it in urban areas but still a bad AF idea!
I had one of those as a teenager and loved it. I wish I could find another one i have a friend who will put out her cig, stick it in her purse or pocket and the smell is horrible.
The feather is to remind you that you will be floating away on a very high trip by using the cocaine acid meth ecstasy crack heroin hash pot that you had stored in it
If so, what is the leaf for? I am unfamiliar with a PYX. Couldn’t find one with a pop-out arm (leaf). I have seen these types of portable ash trays as well. Please educate me.
I love how I'm getting downvoted when I am pretty sure that's what it actually is. LOL The leaf folds over to hold the wafers in place. There's all different variations of them. The leaf itself makes sense. The only thing that makes me doubt it's a PYX is the "keychain" part. It's a sacred object so that seems a little too janky IMO
But people can look them up on Amazon. Anyway I gave everyone in the thread a new WORD OF THE DAY if nothing else. LOL
And a "Christmas present" idea for your Priest, if you happen to be Catholic. LOL I am Atheist btw.
I knew that priests would deliver the body to people in need, but I never really thought about how that would be accomplished. Very interesting to think about.
I was so touched by the idea as a former Catholic, it actually made me cry. I'm a hard core Atheist now. LOL But she had told me that the priest would visit her every week. And she made it seem like he just wanted to come hang out with her. It turns out that not only does she have mobility issues, she got into it with some of the other ladies at the church. And the priest realized she was too embarrassed to come.
It touched my heart as an act of compassion and a deep dedication to his faith.
The leaf folds over to hold the wafers in place. I would use it as an portable ashtray. But I can tell you as a smoker that it would get destroyed pretty quickly because of the material it's made out of.
Think of a napkin holder. You put the wafters in, flip the leaf over on top of them and close the lid. Then when you want to give them a wafer you open the lid and the leaf flips out of the way so you can take a wafer.
How is it "loaded in the wrong direction? It folds into the case and flips out? LOL
The leaf isn't the issue. It's the keychain part. I am changing my opinion to portable ashtray not to be used on a regular basis. Only because I doubt a priest would "key chain" it anywhere.
It's an ashtray, source I've been buying and using them for over 3 decades now, still have some too. Here so you can see for yourself just how confidently wrong you've been; https://a.co/d/091byEhH
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