I Am A Luddite Vaper

For those of us who didn’t know before, we’ve taught ourselves about Ohm’s Law, experimented with thermal lag and messed with the chemistry of juices. We’ve discovered the quantity of heat retained by a recently torched piece of steel and we’ve investigated capillary action by using different substrates.

Vaping is a wonderful series of science lessons that don’t involve landing on a comet but there is a limit and I’ve reached mine. As much as I adore discovering new things I can’t stand having to relearn. In the last couple of years I’ve experimented with wires and wicks, mods and attys, to find a vape that really works for me. During this time I’ve found more stuff that doesn’t hit the spot than kit that does, but that’s OK.

Back in another life when I used to pretend to work for a chemical company, I shared an office with the only line manager I’ve never fallen out with. We’ll call him Harry because Harry is a nice name – and because that’s what he was called.

Harry used to be a jazz musician and instead of drumming up new revenue for our mass-murdering corporation we’d sit with guitars as he taught me something new. The moment in time I’m thinking of now was much more car than guitar-based. I was choosing my new company motor from the list applicable to my station in company life.

“The thing is, Dave” Harry began, “is that the more complex a car is the more there is to go wrong with it.” He knew what he was talking about as he’d just spent a week with his electric window stuck open thanks to a piece of fried circuitry. As the man who signed all of my ridiculously inflated expenses sheets I was always prepared to do Harry’s bidding – standard Sierra estate with wind-up windows it was. I was OK with that, cars rank as one of the least important things in life.

So I sit in conflict: a gadget lover who abhors advances in technology. I love simplicity; it’s what drives me to prefer a mech to the regulated mod. In recent months I’ve added a couple of VWs to the desk and found myself being drawn to them. Actually, given the times I’ve used them I would say I prefer them – I’m embracing the ability to coil higher resistances and run the battery longer.

I thought about a new DNA40 device. And then I discounted it.

It’s not the styles or the cost, it’s not the teething problems with the chip or any reported issues with build quality of certain devices. No, I just don’t want to go back to coiling school. I don’t want to repeat the cycle of trial, fail, learn, retry, fail again…I just want to vape. I feel a kinship with those who never leave the comfort of the eGo starter kit, the warm security blanket of the familiar.

I’m happy to forgo the acquisition of new stuff pushing the old learning out of my brain, I’m content to not hang at the cool kids table. In fact the only thing that unsettles me is that the words ‘I Am A Luddite Vaper‘ scan too easily into a song by The Wurzels.