Would YOU say something??

[Sporadic Metonomy]

We watched him "smoke" for a bit before we moved away. I say "we," but I'm really the only cigar smoker in my group of friends, so I was the one completely horrified.

It was like watching someone try to cover a Beatles song...you're kind of just nonplussed they would even attempt a thing like that.


I've done a few searches online about the "foot band" for cigars. Is this a relatively new thing for cigars? Now, I'm just making excuses for the guy.

[ashauler]

I light my sticks with a bic almost all the time for the same reasons Tyler does.....besides, I can buy a shitload of them for the cost of one Colibri........I have been known to bite the caps off my cigars if I don't have my cutter......a freebie cutter that I got from Mr. Bundles. I have lit the wrong end of a perfecto more than once........

I would never dream of commenting on what someone uses to light or cut their cigar, how they smoke it, etc.......but, I would have tried to find some way to politely and very low key like tell the guy and get him to pull off the foot band. I think most people would take this kindly, but some may not.........it would either most likely lead to a longer conversation about cigars and possibly a new smoking buddy, or a very short conversation if the guy was an ass about it.

I would definitely say something. Odds are he'd be embarrassed but appreciative. If he gave me a hard time for being a younger and perhaps less-experienced smoker (although how much experience can you have if you do something like that), I would kindly suggest that he spend his money on diapers and Ensure, instead of a cigar-band-burning effort in senility.

LMFAO.....I'm not that quick, but if he was an ass it would probably go something like that, though most of my response would only contain 4 letters or less.

[here'sjohnny]

is it possible that the man lit the band on accident and the smoked it through because he was to embarressed to tkae it off? i mean he couldn't well pull it off after it was on fire. maybe he just figured it would be better to just smoke through it than try and pull itoff and ruin the wrapper. kind of a cut your losses mentality.