Rare cigar rebuttal...

[Soundwave13]

I had a good friend a few years back that collected cigars. He was always very generous and interestingly, I seldom saw him smoke a rare cigar... but he would gladly give you one. This is the kind of guy that could afford to and did treat me several times to a vintage cuban and a snifter of Louis XIII at "the club". Despite that, I used to think he was full of BS when he would say, 'by the way, that's a 20 year old cuban you're smoking"....He had a heart attack at 48 on an airplane coming back from Vail. His wife called me several months after the funeral and asked if I wanted his cigars.... so I went to the house and found a cabinet humidor with about 20 boxes of mostly cuban cigars, some dating back to the 60's. While organizing them and boxing them up, I got so sad that I had to stop for about 20 minutes before continuing to pack them up. In the ten years I knew him, I NEVER saw this guy smoke one of those cigars.... he saved them for his friends. He created "the experience" for others.
I smoked or gifted every single one of those cigars over the next year ... by giving one away to someone else every time I smoked one... I gave them to guys who had no idea what they were as well as guys who could look at them and say, "Holy shit, do you know what this is....where did you get this?"

Every once in awhile.. I will be digging through my stash and I will see a "rare" cigar that I haven't smoked yet... because I was saving it for a special occasion... and I stick it in a bomb......and it makes me feel great knowing that someone else will enjoy it as much as I would have......

My point is this: There are always more cigars.... they may be different, but every year, more "rare" and HTF cigars come out..... smoke the ones you have... and simply make the act of smoking it... a special occasion.

Wow - well said!!!

 

[Proud Bear]

There isn't a cigar out there that creates an exclamation point in life, no special cigar that makes things go from gray to bright and there is no cigar out there that will take away the blues.

A good cigar will however make you relax and unwind...will make you a little more comfortable in your skin and give you a chance to rethink something and get a new insight.

Beautifully said. :applause:

The best "rare" cigars I have had have been on nights just like that- where I may not have even known what I had grabbed. A great cigar, smoked simply for the joy of the experience can completely transfigure my mood, my outlook and my assumptions of life. Too often, I refuse to take that break to enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Bear

 

[Moro]

Thanks for sharing that, Skipper.

 

[BrandonJ]

Thank you for sharing this... It was very touching. Sounds like he was an amazing friend!

I had a good friend a few years back that collected cigars. He was always very generous and interestingly, I seldom saw him smoke a rare cigar... but he would gladly give you one. This is the kind of guy that could afford to and did treat me several times to a vintage cuban and a snifter of Louis XIII at "the club". Despite that, I used to think he was full of BS when he would say, 'by the way, that's a 20 year old cuban you're smoking"....He had a heart attack at 48 on an airplane coming back from Vail. His wife called me several months after the funeral and asked if I wanted his cigars.... so I went to the house and found a cabinet humidor with about 20 boxes of mostly cuban cigars, some dating back to the 60's. While organizing them and boxing them up, I got so sad that I had to stop for about 20 minutes before continuing to pack them up. In the ten years I knew him, I NEVER saw this guy smoke one of those cigars.... he saved them for his friends. He created "the experience" for others.
I smoked or gifted every single one of those cigars over the next year ... by giving one away to someone else every time I smoked one... I gave them to guys who had no idea what they were as well as guys who could look at them and say, "Holy shit, do you know what this is....where did you get this?"

Every once in awhile.. I will be digging through my stash and I will see a "rare" cigar that I haven't smoked yet... because I was saving it for a special occasion... and I stick it in a bomb......and it makes me feel great knowing that someone else will enjoy it as much as I would have......

My point is this: There are always more cigars.... they may be different, but every year, more "rare" and HTF cigars come out..... smoke the ones you have... and simply make the act of smoking it... a special occasion.

 

[CWS]

I had a good friend a few years back that collected cigars. He was always very generous and interestingly, I seldom saw him smoke a rare cigar... but he would gladly give you one. This is the kind of guy that could afford to and did treat me several times to a vintage cuban and a snifter of Louis XIII at "the club". Despite that, I used to think he was full of BS when he would say, 'by the way, that's a 20 year old cuban you're smoking"....He had a heart attack at 48 on an airplane coming back from Vail. His wife called me several months after the funeral and asked if I wanted his cigars.... so I went to the house and found a cabinet humidor with about 20 boxes of mostly cuban cigars, some dating back to the 60's. While organizing them and boxing them up, I got so sad that I had to stop for about 20 minutes before continuing to pack them up. In the ten years I knew him, I NEVER saw this guy smoke one of those cigars.... he saved them for his friends. He created "the experience" for others.
I smoked or gifted every single one of those cigars over the next year ... by giving one away to someone else every time I smoked one... I gave them to guys who had no idea what they were as well as guys who could look at them and say, "Holy shit, do you know what this is....where did you get this?"

Every once in awhile.. I will be digging through my stash and I will see a "rare" cigar that I haven't smoked yet... because I was saving it for a special occasion... and I stick it in a bomb......and it makes me feel great knowing that someone else will enjoy it as much as I would have......

My point is this: There are always more cigars.... they may be different, but every year, more "rare" and HTF cigars come out..... smoke the ones you have... and simply make the act of smoking it... a special occasion.

Thanks for this as it just confirms what I believe to be true; now is the time.