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Cigar Shop Manners… Yeah You!
Nothing could be more irritating when you go into a cigar shop and pay a decent price for one of your favorite smokes and you sit down and start to light up and POOF…. In comes the “Loud crowd”…. usually a few overly talkative guys who talk about shit out loud that no one else wants to hear or teen kids just old enough to hold a match and you are forced to listen to every word that comes out of their mouth from start to finish of your cigar, and most of it is painful….. And now enters the “TV Creeper” who buys the cheapest stick in the store and takes control of the shop TV remote like a miser staring around at everyone talking to himself under his breath and starts firing through all the channels and stopping on the most random things on TV (And does so every 5 minutes)…. When finally stopping on a channel all of a sudden they become a chatterbox letting you know all of their most intimate thoughts on the show, and the president, and taxes, and health care, and racial opinions and thoughts on why the country is so fucked up, and every single health problem he has had since age 5…. Hey buddy we are watching the Red Sox game….Gimme a break! Its one thing to discuss the channel, and game or whatever you are watching, but I don’t want to hear about the boil you had lanced on your taint while the bases are loaded and Big Papi is about to get up to bat… And by the way it is not a crime to use the ashtray instead of the floor, and picking up the mess you made is certainly not going to be frowned upon by the other people around you or the shop owner…. Do you make a mess like this at your own house?? Next up we have the ”Store Frat members” who are daily and nightly locals who apparently don’t have homes, because they are there day and night and sometimes never buy a single thing (Age ranges between 20 and 40 something)…. They just sit and talk shit with and about anyone who walks in and out of the shop commenting on each and every girls ass that slinks in and out without wanting to feel violated, and brag about all of their sexual conquests from the previous days, and nights…. Honestly… Who gives a shit?? If I wanted to smoke in a frat house I would just sit at home in my undies and drink beer while watching Animal house smoking cigars I’ve already paid for from my humidor… I mean honestly I have enough of my own cigars that I can smoke without having to leave the house for quite some time to purchase any more, but the enjoyment of going to a shop and smoking with others is fun….Sometimes… Until you run into “The man with the best palate on earth”…. This guy knows EVERY thing about cigars, and who rolled them, and where they took a piss while taking a break in the tobacco fields…He knows where its grown, cured, rolled, boxed and banded, and even how much each box costs to ship out of every cigar shop on earth… He is friends with all of the manufacturers and their wives and kids, and eats and sleeps at their houses in silk pajamas…. He is known as “The Shop Douche Bag” by 90% of the regular customers…. If Someone mentions they smoked a 5 year old Cuban he has surely smoked one rolled from a newborn Cuban baby as it comes out of the womb…. No cigar you ever smoke is good enough for them and when you hear them talking and describing a smoke to people they all sound the same….So in other words he is a “Poser”…. No one wants to be hassled or haggled when they go into a shop for some quiet enjoyment and no one really cares that you think your shit don’t stink either so leave that shit at the door before coming in…. I have spent an hour or 5 in shops before having a blast…. One cigar after another, and some good conversation or a ball game, and sometimes even a movie, but no one really wants to go in, and come out never wanting to walk into the shop again, and these things happen…. I have also had several people tell me that another turn off in a cigar shop is overly pushy sales staff trying to pawn off only what they like to smoke and not really taking the time to ask you what you normally smoke, and flavor profiles you enjoy… Do you enjoy a mild, medium, full bodied cigar? Do you like “Flavored” or infused cigars? Do you like Bubblegum cigars?? Anything would be helpful than some of the stuff I am hearing…. I’ve been into shops with 19 or 20 something year old kids running it that wouldn’t know the first thing about a decent cigar and I’m supposed to take advice from them on what I should smoke?? Um yeah no…… Enjoying a nice cigar, and having some fun is one thing, but don’t act like an asshole or loudmouth know it all and spoil it for the rest of us…. I have started to bring in my Ipod and ear buds to enjoy my own Music, and or movies while smoking, but then I get that guy who has been talking to me for 15 minutes not realizing I have ear buds in, and he thinks I am ignoring him on purpose…. Lol… I can’t win! So these are just a few minor irritants that I encounter on a daily and weekly basis and wanted to share them…. I am sure you all have these types of people in your own areas, and shops….Sometimes it is amusing to talk about and sometimes the ignorance of some people can make you never go into a shop again….Either way… Find a shop that you love and support it as much as you can, and your enjoyment abilities will be endless….. Here’s smoking at you!
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