I've never smoked with my parents, but I did participate in the smoking out of my friends stepdad. God knows my friend had to work up the courage, he knew the guy smoked but couldn't bring himself to ask. Finally he just walks up to his dad while he's out in his shop and hands him his showpiece, a beautifull glass pipe made by the Bearclaw, and tells him "I think you'll appreciate this"

Within 5 min we were smoking and everything was golden. Hell, my friend even discovered that a wooden sculpture on top of the refrigerator was actually a homemade pipe. And it had been there for years. Imagine...