Friday evening at about 10:30pm I get a call from my bud. He's having a get together because his cousin and a few other people were visiting from out of town. I go over, drink some Natty Light, meet a few new people, nothing exciting. At about 11pm one of the girls decides she wants to run to her apartment and get a hookah so we can chill on the porch and enjoy the clear, comfortable night. Her and a couple people go to get it, and when she gets back she kindly sets everything up for whoever wanted it. I was out there and someone asked what the little opening on the side of the hookah was. I irresponsibly touched it (because I wasn't sure either), and ping! goes some tiny ball bearing that apparently controls the airflow. Wonderful. I just fucked everyone's night. At first nobody noticed, but that was short lived, since as soon as the next person tried to take a drag the thing didn't pull squat. Quickly the situation turned into a full-fledged search with two flashlights and 5 people on the ground. I felt like such an ass-hole. I told the girl who owned it what happened, and she seemed pretty upset, (although she was saying things like "it doesn't matter") so I had to do something. The piece was from the Middle-East, so there was no such replacement piece. We would have to improvise. I have pierced nipples, with rings that have a single ball on them. I looked at my buddy and tell him what I'm going to do, but tell him to keep completely hush-hush. I don't come off as the kind of guy that would have them, so I didn't want to be obvious and have a lot of new people think I'm a weirdo. I went to the top floor, into a room, locked the door, and proceeded to get the ball out of my right nipple ring to see if it will fit. I figured it couldn't hurt to try, since it looked close. When I got to the bottom of the stairs the hookah owner was doing something in the kitchen. I handed her the ball and asked if she thought it would work. She looked a little relieved and optimistic. We go try it out, and sure enough, the damn thing works great. Now I have to find a replacement so the ring doesn't fall out or poke me. Thanks if you read. I just wanted to share what I thought to be an unusual story.
Good story. If it fell out that easily you should have told the girl the hookah was crap. But quick thinking using the nipple piercing. I would have used my prince albert. Don't really have a prince albert.
Right on man, that was good thinking! I have both my nipples pierced, and yeah it hurt quite a bit but it wasn't unbearable.
is it a single hose hookah? because if it is, i think the part you're talking about is the let-off valve, it's there incase someone blows into the hookah. mine is a single hose, but the vavle is covered by a piece that screws on over the ball bearing.
Yeah it was a single hose one. Now I remember her saying "where's the top part?" so perhaps something else was already missing.
lol when i read the title i thot u were gonna get ur nipple hard and stick it where the ball was suppose to be. very misleading hahaha. good job improvising, u used ur head man.
Tell the girl just to go get a metal bb. I've lost the ball bearing in all 6 of my hookahs cleaning them from time to time, and just replace them with a standard metal bb. That valve is there to clear any stale smoke that may just be chillin in the vase
I figured a BB would work but none of us that live there (I'm close with them, moving in about 3 weeks) have BB guns. I was frustrated about that since my BB gun is still at my old place. P.S. I'm stoned, guys.