If You Had To Choose 1 Cigar To Smoke For The Rest Of Your Life

[Roger]

what would it be?

I could never choose just one, that would be way too boring! I highly doubt I could even choose just ten.

[ggiese]

I could never choose just one, that would be way too boring! I highly doubt I could even choose just ten.

You got that right!!!!

...tongue in cheek with my references to cigarettes - but I have to say Roger has described my feelings in two easy sentences.

To ask "what is that one cigar...", to me, is being incredibly naive about the whole cigar smoking experience. After all - smoking cigars is not like smoking cigarettes.

I do really enjoy even the process of thinking about what I'm going to smoke. And it really does vary from situation to situation, mood to mood. Some days I feel like completely mild, to other times when I really want to be kicked in the pants.

But most of the cigars I keep around are to share with others. So - variety for me is highly important. I would not want to limit my choice to just one cigar - that would be very "vanilla".

There are those cigars I know most would like - but there are also others I know that will blow the socks of an individual based upon what I know they typically like to smoke. It's blissful for me to see someone light up a cigar they've never before tried - and fall into the "trance" (I pity the person who's smoked cigars and not been in that place...). And nothing is more satisfying than having that person come back to me weeks or months later to recollect on that experience - the experience clearly created an incredibly memorable impression...

Bottom line - I would give up cigars if I only had one choice to make.

[kingbeefy]

but there are also others I know that will blow the socks of an individual based upon what I know they typically like to smoke. It's blissful for me to see someone light up a cigar they've never before tried - and fall into the "trance"

That is exactly what I was getting at when I said "If I could recapture the experience of the first one I had daily I would do that daily.". I have had several since and they were all good, but not one of them has redelivered on that first experience. I have had a few similar experiences with other cigars, but that was the first great one.

It's a little like golf for me, the good shots feel so good, I think I would swing through a hundred bad ones if that's what it took to get to the next good one.

Good news here is I am way better at smoking than I am at golfing.