This is true, actually lol. Talking and sharing cigars with my fellow soldiers back in Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Hood actually opened up a lot of conversations and helped break the ice when I was meeting new people. I think I may have converted at least 3 people from cigarette to cigar smokers. For some reason, a bunch of Privates called me The Don when they saw me in my friend's house smoking a Ruination lol.
Your right about cigars opening up relationships. I got to know one of my companies Executive vice presidents when he saw the cigar in my pocket during one of his visits. He knows my name now and I call him by his first name.
Your right about cigars opening up relationships. I got to know one of my companies Executive vice presidents when he saw the cigar in my pocket during one of his visits. He knows my name now and I call him by his first name.
ive got an "in" in HR now too, the VP actually, due to talk of cigars.
I can honestly say my gf and I our relationship got better after I started smoking cigars regularly. She comes and sits with me and we get good quality time to talk and catch up, i work a lot so we don't always have that. Like now I worked 7 days straight to include two 12 and a half hour shifts one on Sat and one on Sun. I got called in this afternoon and I hadn't gone to bed to try to get back on a normal sleeping schedule before we leave for the vacation.
I've had great experiences with complete strangers at b&ms, just smoking cigars and shooting the breeze. I think it really helps to have a common interest and go in with no preconceptions and an open mind and just let everything flow from there. Initially I expected to be ignored or not taken seriously due to my age, but I've found that not many cigar smokers care about that, if you smoke cigars you're one of the boys and I really like that aspect of the hobby...especially since my profession is one where I'm constantly written off and treated like a know-nothing because of my age.
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