Your First Stick

[guado]

loudpipes is still around...talking to him on google chat right now....I'll link him the thread.

[Loudpipes78]

Who me? I'm still around.

I've pretty much stopped frequenting most forums 12-18 months ago and randomly pop in here and there to see what's going on.

I still smoke once a week or so and currently have an RP Winter sitting next to me begging to be lit. Buffalo Wild Wings also opened a location near my new place which makes it 50% closer than the existing one I go to and it has at least a 2000 sq/ft patio which is smoker friendly. I am going to be hanging out there quite often.

I still pick up most of my stuff from Tampa Humidor and whatever Guado suggests or comes across since he is a waaaay bigger smoker than I am now. I still have a decent collection but now I have a lot of stuff with some age on it since I slowed down smoking the last year.

As some of you might remember I got divorced back in Dec '06 and got engaged back in July of this year to an amazing woman. We're living together now and have a great life. The wedding is planned for Fall/Winter this year but since we've both been divorced before we don't care about making it a giant affair. Our goal is to buy a house first and if our offer gets accepted on this one short sale we'll definitely be doing a backyard wedding... on a lake.

I guess that's about it... still L-I-V-I-N` and lovin' life.

[597]

Congratulations Loudpipes!

Nice to see you post again. I'm just as shocked as Guado.

[golfermd]

Partagas #10. Stopped smoking for several years. Divorce, life in general. But am going to start again...

[alliaphagist]

I'm very new to cigars. My first "cigar" was a Black n Mild "wine" flavored. It was...weird. There didn't seem to be any flavor but the really artificial "wine" smell was sickening. This was about a month ago.

After a couple more gas-station cigars, I decided to buy the mild-medium taster pack at CI. My first real cigar was a Rocky Patel Connecticut. Unfortunately, I was still trying to figure out exactly how to smoke a cigar, and I didn't get much of anything out of it. This was only about a week ago, and I was sitting outside on a bench, when two friends came over. We were talking for a while, and I realized my cigar had gone out. Once they left, it got really cold, so I decided to abandon my smoking for the night, and try to relight another time, because I had only smoked an inch. Unfortunately, the next day the whole stick smelled like stale smoke, so I just decided to toss it.

So great first experiences haha! I have had better experiences since then though.

Oh, and this is my first post

[Fuma787]

First cigar was a Fonseca 5-50 from a box that my buddy's dad got him for his birthday. I remember how smooth it was and how much I missed the aroma of a cigar. I didn't get into cigars seriously until about 4 to 5 years later.