Before mail-in ballots, we had absentee ballots. Some years ago, a local politician was caught filling out absentee ballots for dementia patients in a local nursing home.
I haven’t been able to get to a pipe show since the pandemic. I miss them, and I miss the people, the vendors, the pipe makers, and, of course the fellow pipe collectors and smokers.
The Danes make pretty good tobacco pipes, and blend the tobacco pretty well. I’ve seen their pipe carvers at pipe shows, and they drink themselves silly.