I smoked a pipe when I was much younger (30+ years ago). I liked either a Black Cavendish or a Honey Cavendish. The smokeshops used to either sell small sample pouches of their various pipe tobaccos or some would even let you test a free pipe full. I realize that there are fewer shops around...
I've owned a number of neat cars over my many years though I don't currently. I enjoy seeing them though. I always drool over the Barrett-Jackson auctions on SpeedTV. Right now (3/26 - 3/27) the Mecum auction of muscle cars is on the Velocity Channel, they will be at the Indiana State...
I'm from the generation before this, we didn't even have seat belts when I was that age. I remember riding standing up in the front seat of our '56 Pontiac Chieftan so that I could see.
When I was a young teen our local grade school started a summer garden program for their students. They asked for volunteer mentors (a word that wasn't used back then) from the local Middle School who had prior gardening/farming experience. Being the farm lad that I was, of course I volunteered...