criteria for a smoke?

[Fishbeadtwo]

So I'm digging through my humi looking for that just right cigar for this evening puttering in the garage. I dug through my whole collection of 75 or so and finially settled on a Padilla. It just kinda said "pick me!" Do other gorillas pick a stick the same way or am I paying attention to the voices again?

[bhudson57]

Originally Posted by Fishbeadtwo

So I'm digging through my humi looking for that just right cigar for this evening puttering in the garage. I dug through my whole collection of 75 or so and finially settled on a Padilla. It just kinda said "pick me!" Do other gorillas pick a stick the same way or am I paying attention to the voices again?

I pick the same way as you! You're not the only one...

[burninator]

They talk to me, too.

[Papichulo]

Many of my smokes are kept in my office at work so on the weekends I need to make sure I have plenty of smokes at home. I basically let the cigars talk to me on Friday afternoon

[hooperjetcar]

Sometimes I know what I want before I open the lid, other times, I may know the length I'm looking for based on time available, or there may be some other criteria. My point is that while I sometimes let them speak to me, I usually have at least some targets in mind before the humidor is opened.

[dbradley]

I usually will begin daydreaming about a particular smoke earlier in the day and then smoke it when I get home. For example, I'm smoking the last of a 5 Vegas Corona 5-pack right now...I've been thinking about it since right after breakfast.

[jrihtar]

Originally Posted by hooperjetcar

Sometimes I know what I want before I open the lid, other times, I may know the length I'm looking for based on time available, or there may be some other criteria. My point is that while I sometimes let them speak to me, I usually have at least some targets in mind before the humidor is opened.

I'm with you. It's all about my mood. Some days I can't wait to get home to have a certain cigar. Other days, either out of pure excitement to try everything at once or the inability to connect with "what I truly have a taste for," I can't decide. But I always end up smoking. Once the seed is planted, whether it's wanted or not, it grows and grows fast.

[neoflex]

Originally Posted by hooperjetcar

Sometimes I know what I want before I open the lid, other times, I may know the length I'm looking for based on time available, or there may be some other criteria. My point is that while I sometimes let them speak to me, I usually have at least some targets in mind before the humidor is opened.

Then I have those times where I know what I want and I head to the humi to pull it out and then I spot something else and all of a sudden I'm saying to myself "Oh yeah, I forgot I picked that up!" and then I end up pulling out that stick and it could be days or weeks before I end up smoking the stick I originally had in my mind to smoke that day.

[riverdawg]

Usually one in the bunch will start talking dirty to me. Later that week Ill pass it a note and set up a meeting for later that week. Then just snatch up the offending stick, grab the dog and take the ol' hour god walk, and punish the poor 'gar for getting mouthy

[MBMilliren]

Originally Posted by riverdawg

Usually one in the bunch will start talking dirty to me. Later that week Ill pass it a note and set up a meeting for later that week. Then just snatch up the offending stick, grab the dog and take the ol' hour god walk, and punish the poor 'gar for getting mouthy

i like your style

[riverdawg]

hehehe

[jrihtar]

Originally Posted by riverdawg

Usually one in the bunch will start talking dirty to me. Later that week Ill pass it a note and set up a meeting for later that week. Then just snatch up the offending stick, grab the dog and take the ol' hour god walk, and punish the poor 'gar for getting mouthy

I like your moves.

[ghost]

Originally Posted by hooperjetcar

Sometimes I know what I want before I open the lid, other times, I may know the length I'm looking for based on time available, or there may be some other criteria. My point is that while I sometimes let them speak to me, I usually have at least some targets in mind before the humidor is opened.

Same with me. Sometimes I know, sometimes I open and one jumps out and me and sometimes I need to dig to find something different.

[billybarue]

I waste so much darn time rifling through my humis that I oftentimes run out of time to smoke.

I have all my smokes cataloged in excel spreadsheets. It is not as much fun, but at the end of the inventory I have a list of five (in red) from each Humi on the "Next to Burn List". this saves me because if I am tight on time, I will inevitably screw it up by rummaging around. Not as fun to have a "Next to burn list" but it saves me smoking time.

BillyBarue

[casadooley]

I read my horoscope, check the alignment of the moon and stars, break out the tarot cards and , oops, sorry, thats how I decide what to buy at the devil site! For my evening smoke I just open up one of my hummies and reach in and grab what looks good