Never fails, when the tax return arrives all the children decide they are going to be cigar smokers. They show up at Cbid and $1.50 cigars start selling for $3 and $3 cigars go for $5 or $6 bucks a whack. Hey, but they won the auction, right? Time to drum on your chest and do your best Tarzan call. Just wish I could be there with my camera so I could take pictures of them heaving in the gutter after huffing the first one down to the nub. I was young some 40+ years ago and thought rum crooks and swisher sweets were the cats meow, so who am I to talk. I also tried smoking a pipe for a while and still remember just how nasty it got because I never replaced the filter or cleaned it properly. Those were the days...... Now the Dr. says I should quit cigars in one breath and then tells me people who smoke cigars that have one of my medical conditions (Ulcerative Colitis) live longer than those who don't. I'm confused enough without getting that kind of info from the doc . He also suggest I go to a bordering state and buy medical marihuana to treat the symptoms of a couple of other diseases I have. Crap, if I could make the round trip by myself I wouldn't need the drugs in the first place. Good thing I don't pay for his services, we'd be better of as fishing buddies, then I wouldn't get pissed off when he starts talking stupid like me. Now that I'm old, the accomplishments I brag about aren't about the huge fish I caught or how GOOD my current chick is. It's that I got disability without a lawyer and SSDI didn't even want to send to be processed again to see if I could go back to work. That and the $8 k in medication per month I take are the things I brag about now. Pathetic, right? Heck, I haven't left the city in 10 years except to see a specialist for a medical condition and once on the job when I could still work. UC makes you paranoid you might crap your pants at any minute. I still remember how relieved I felt when I got 90 miles down the road without crapping my pants. It's a good thing I lived life to the fullest in my younger years or I'd be one bitter old SOB. But the only thing I'm really bitter about is every year around this time these youngsters show up and drive up the prices of cigars. Think I'll try to make my last 6 cigars last until the weather warms up a bit and the kids forget about how cool it would be to smoke cigars so I can get back to getting some good sticks a great prices once again. I should be able to do it, my medication suggests I only one per week. Think I'll tell the Dr. next time to stuff it up his butt,