you need friends to appreciate your belongings and the price of good glassware
They do, but stuff just gets broken anyway. I've never had a bong or pipe worth over $100 though so it's not like I'm loosing a lot, just sucked enough to stop buying anything glass.
Actually it's more a girlfriend problem than friend problem now that I think about it.
I think I'll just get a glass stem for my solid metal bong. That thing has lasted forever but it doesn't have that clean as glass taste. I wonder if just a glass stem would make it smoke like an all glass bong? It's aluminum and over 1/4" thick in the thinnest parts.