OPhhh.... *smiles* And I've not got much of a story at this time... *smiles*

My favorite time to date smoking a cigar was pretty recent as it was when I got hooked! :P

A friend of mine hosts his birthday party every year at his house. Usually, we do typical mature young adult party things like splashing around in the pool like idiots, chatting, drinking a variety of alcohol AND the host is kind and generous enough to provide some low budget cigars to puff on doing any of these things.
I hadn't done it in over a year (the first time, I wasn't as keen on it nor did I without choking), but this time I was determined to make it a good smoke. Lo and behold, the first couple of puffs I didn't spat it out! Progressively, it just became easier and easier to take the smoke in my mouth and slowly blow it creating a nice thick grayish yellow cloud. I've never felt so soothed by something supposedly "bad"for you- it was just an overall nice experience to sit back and chat with people amid our giant billowing clouds.
I even puffed my first couple of smoke rings!

That next Thursday, I asked my friend who hosted the party to accompany me to the cigar shop he went to in our town (Cigar Plus in Downtown Kissimmee, for any Florida furs. It's a pretty nice place) and help me pick out a few good ones. Once we got back to his place we took our post in his backyard and enjoyed the stylings of Christ Botti (smooth trumpet jazz and REALLY good smoking music) and some higher quality cigars, chatting over our anticipation of the fall to enjoy the warmth our cigars would bring :3

I can't wait to sit back, one crammed in the corner of my mouth, the chill of fall swept around me and the smoke hovering in my nose and mouth...ahhhh.... ^^

Wonderful story ^__^ it will be posted soon.

Well I already shared the 150 year old cigar not being aged long enough a few journals ago and that was my best I'm afraid.

OK, almost as good.

So I'm driving along with my buddies and I've got Rush Limbaugh playing on the radio. Rush is talking about the stereotype of dittoheads and proceeds to note that "...it's just a stereotype that my average listener is some red neck in a hunting vest wearing an NRA hat driving down the road in his pick up truck while puffing away at a cigar."

I just happened to be wearing my usual hunting vest, NRA hat, was smoking a nice Honduran and my vehicle of choice is a full sized pick up truck. As my buddies all burst out laughing all I could really do was let out a "Hey!!!"

Right place, right time I guess.

Another great case of timing was when I was with a lady friend and she was complaining about something or other (me not listening to her I think) and she started complaining about the cigars. At this point I was an ace at smoke rings and was knocking them out non-stop while she was bitching providing negative feedback when the AC caught one of the rings just right.

The bottom got twisted while the top got a bit of a knock resulting in a vaguely heart-shaped smoke ring. I cut her off in mid sentence, gestured towards the heart-shaped ring and noted "Look, I blew a heart smoke ring for you." If you've ever seen someone's heart melt instantly it's quite a sight - she went from rabid bitch to purring kitten in the blink of an eye and made me a VERY happy skunk that day, evening, weekend...

The first one I did read and it was really good. :3 it will be the first. Just gathering up stories so it will build up.

Ah, KK, thought you were just asking for stuff for this journal.