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SteveS Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 1:51 PM EST
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I've had some odd NorthPole/SouthPole comments lately regarding my cigar smoke ... late one afternoon last week, walking down Market St in SF, I'd lit a little Mayorga robusto and was enjoying the smoke and the (BIG change here) warm sunshine ... guy walks up to me and wanted to know what kind of smoke it was ... said he had to go buy one ... I took the band off, gave it to him and pointed out a cigar store across the street and a block down ... over the weekend, I was returning home from a ballgame I'd been to, puffing on a Punch Rare Corojo (damn, I like that smoke) ... stopped at a traffic light and a car pulls up on the left ... two young kids sitting in the car began yowling as soon as the breeze filled their car with smoke, waving their little hands under their noses and staring daggers at me ... if looks could've killed, I'd not be writing this ... their mom, quick thinker that she was, just hit the buttons to roll up their windows, but the kids kept giving me the evil eye ... funny how different people react in different ways ...
rjdc Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 3:32 PM EST
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don't sweat it steve. "jus keep doin' what you like"! when we start letting people effect us by what they like and dislike, they're acting like bin laddin. screw em'!!
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 4:16 PM EST
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those little **** will grow up to kill their parents.
jjohnson28 Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 4:26 PM EST
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LOL @ Rick.
Guv Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 5:27 PM EST
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Steve, I agree don't sweat those people. I'm a Juvenile Probation Officer and it has been my experience that anyone who even looks cross-eyed at us cigar smokers will eventually be buying some punk a$$ stogie at their local conveinence store to roll their own blunts while their mother is home drinking cheap wine and popping prozac.-----God I love my job!!!
delarob Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 5:40 PM EST
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shoulda gave em the One Finger Salute.
RobertParrott Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 6:45 PM EST
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Steve, You do live in the Peoples Republic of California, you'll be lucky if you can smoke at all shortly. Here in Florida they are tring to get enought signatures to put some bull**** smoking law on the balots. In fact a few weeks ago this IDIOT walks up to me while I was walking thru the local flea market puffing a fat Perdomo and asks me to sign the f'ng petition. I just blew smoke in his face and told him he had some f'ng nerve.
chibacity Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 7:02 PM EST
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Robert, you should have taken him up on it and signed it Mickey f'ng Mouse from Orlando... and then blew smoke in his face :-)
jbensen Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Jun 11 2002, 7:03 PM EST
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Robert - Sorry to break this to ya', but they _have_ collected enough sigs to put the new smoking restriction proposal on the ballot here in FL (heaven help us all). What really incenses me, though, is the methods they used. Two pretty young female signature gatherers came to our cigar club meeting two months ago and said they had a petition for smokers rights. Everybody in the club signed without reading it. I was the last one to get the clipboard, and I did read every bit of it -- slowly and comprehensively. It was NOT about smokers rights -- it was about restricting the rights of smokers. The two ladies slipped out the door before I could raise the alarm. I saw them again a month later at a street party, circulating the same petition and still calling it "smokers rights". I read it again, and it was still the same "smokers restrictions" petition I'd seen the month before. And people around me were signing it without reading it. Part of me is angry and frustrated at the duplicity exhibited by these people. The other part of me is even angrier and more frustrated at all the people I observed signing it without reading, including all of my cigar smoking buddies. Well, I guess we brought this on ourselves in this case. And the odds are that the 'huddled masses' will vote for anything that appears to be good on the surface. I fear for the darker times ahead.
Fubar69 Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 9:09 AM EST
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You think that is bad. Here in Washington (state) they are passing "No smoking" laws for the parks now. But they have backed down from giving tickets out for the dastardly deed to putting up the "cigarette with a slash through it" signs. I guess it really comes down to the thing about "LOOK OUT! He has a lit cigarette"
I understand the thing about "second hand smoke" in an enclosed space affecting others. But when they start talking about the bad effects of second hand smoke in the open spaces then they will have to pry the cigar from my cold dead fingers after shooting me....69
RobertParrott Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:04 PM EST
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J The first person that tells me I cant smoke a cigar outdoors will get it stuffed up thier a$$. We have a local cigar bar that has started to attract few younger nonsmoking clients. The first time they give anyone crap about a cigar and the smell, they get the boot by the owner, it's a lot of fun to watch.
jd1 Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 11:12 AM EST
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Living here in AZ, I sometimes go to the casinos on the reservation. Light up a stogie in a nonVegas casino and watch 'em really scream. Love it. **** 'em. That's what happens when those that cherish their freedoms don't get out and vote, yet want to bitch about these types of things. Then again, we just may be truly outnumbered, but I'll stop smokin' my cigars when they pry them from my cold dead fingers...er something like that...
mtsheron Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 2:59 PM EST
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Steve.....in those instances I intentionaly blow more smoke their way.....let's face it....not everyone will ike our habits but it sure as hell beats being a rapist or murderer. Throw a knife their way then they would appreciate that aroma of a fine cigar!
SteveS Offline
#14 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 5:24 AM EST
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some DO appreciate it ... it is the 180 deg. difference in opinions that struck me ... we've all had the hands waving under the nose and "ugh" comments made, but those such as the elerly woman who approached me the other day with a smile and in a rather wistful tone, offered the comment "your cigar smells SO wonderful ... it makes me think of my husband ... he used to smoke cigars too, rest his soul" ... and the other day as I stood on the sidewalk in the financial district, chatting with a business associate, the window rolled down in a car parked at the curb and the young man behind the wheel said, pointing to the back seat, "my dad says your cigar smells great and he wishes he could have one with you; his doctor won't let him smoke anymore, but he says there's nothing better than a good cigar" ... "I think he might be right", I replied in thanking them ... I dunno about that for sure, though ... there are some other things I like pretty well too, but the cigars ARE among the things at the top of my list, no doubt about it.
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