WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forgive me for yelling, but that's all I can think of to say. You Left Coasters may not have to stand outside in the snow to enjoy your smokes, but we have CI and CB right here in our back yard. If you think these folks are nice in e-mails and on the phone, you better hope that once in your lifetime, before you take that long dirt nap and go to that great tobacco field in the sky, you get to to make the pilgramage to Mecca, oops, I mean Monacacy Street. I don't know if it's the cigar experience that makes the people nice, or nice people make the cigar experience nice, but everyone at the herf was incredible. It was very clear the CI/CB family really enjoy their work. I'm sure they don't love each other every day, but if the norm is half as good as what I saw, I only wish my office was the same. The board guys and a couple of local CI customers were great also. To say the group was eclectic is somewhat of an understatement. We ranged in age from mid tweenty to nearly 60. There were truck drivers, computer programers, cops, and even a couple of narcs. Everyone enjoyed each others company, bound by our common love of the leaf. We talked a lot about cigars, which was why we were there in the first place. I personally only regret I didn't get to learn more about everyones life, I hope to correct that the next time. I almost forgot Mark the rep from General Tobacco, thank you also.
Well, I'm sure others have something to say about yesterday so I'll shut my yap. Thanks again to all.