StogieNinja
Derek | BoM June 2014
No disrespect felt or read. Discussion is great.
I make time for my cigars the same way you do - I smoke in the evening after the kids are in bed, while my wife knits or reads or watches a show next to me. I get in a couple a week this way. But the times where I could smoke an "A" (which would likely take me 3-4 hrs)... hard to carve out that kind of time without letting something else slide.
I could start smoking earlier, and my wife would be ok with that, but it would be hard for me to enjoy a cigar while she got all five kids ready for bed, then went on and cleaned up the house from the day alone, etc. Or she could come out with me as soon as the kids were down, but we'd face a mountain of dishes and cleanup the next morning, or twice as much the next night. So it's almost always a compromise of smoking a robusto instead of a longer stick so that I can enjoy the whole thing in the shorter time frame after the work is done and still get enough sleep to function the next day.
For me, it's one of those 50% of the effort gets 90% of the reward... I could push for an extra two hours of smoking time, but it's rarely if ever worth the extra required effort. A few times a year there's opportunity to enjoy something that'll take 3-4 hours, and I do seize the opportunity.
