Beating NYS Smoking Bans!

[ambientboy]

So last night I call a good friend of mine to hang out at the usual bar we frequent. We both work in a couple restaurants in town so once you're in, you tend to know staff from 80% of the area's bars, pubs, and restaurants. We go to this one place because she knows a manager and I know the bartender and that's it. For us, that's a remarkably low ratio for staff acquaintance...we call it "The bar where we don't know anyone." Sometimes you just don't feel like 'talking shop.'

This is a new place with a great outdoor eating area that's fenced in. All three doors to it say "No smoking on the patio."

The two people we know are not working so I ask the waiter closest to us, "Hey, is there smoking on the patio?"

"Technically no. But there're only three tables hanging out there. I don't think they're care if you figure out which way the wind is blowing."

"Really? I have a cigar though..."

"Nah, it'll be fine. I really don't think anyone's going to ask you to stop."

So we order a glass of red, and Tanqueray on the rocks for me and I run to the car to grab my cigar. As I open the door I think to myself 'hmm..i should bring an extra..you never know what might go down...' So I pull an Indian Tobac maddie out of my caddy and slip it into an empty Sig VI tube.

We meet back at the outside table, I clip and light up. The guy two tables away is getting hit right in the face with my smoke, the wind shifted. He gets kind of agitated. I get worried, pull out the tube and set it on the table. There's no way I'm snuffing an '04 Upmann mag46. I hear him mutter.."Man, i wish I brought a cigar. I haven't had one in years."

I lean his way and say loud enough for him to hear me, "You want one?"

"Really?!"

"Yeah man, it's all yours." I slid it out of the tube (so he does't think he's getting a Cohiba), clipped it, and handed it to him with a box of matches.

He lit it up. I hear him say, "Man, now this is a GREAT night. I TOTALLY feel like a high roller!"

My friend looks at me and says, "What the hell was that?"

"Well, I figured if the guy closest to us got pissed that I was smoking, I'd give him a cigar and all would be well. Sort of a peace offering."

"Your mind works the way none others do, my friend." she replied.

I said, "Nope...that's the way a cigar-smokers brain just works. Share the love."


By halfway down the Mag 46, the whole patio was smoking. So much for NYS laws.

[mugen910]

NICE!!! We can't smoke anywhere indoors in Ma but I believe patio or designated shops are allowed.

[borndead1]

HELL YEAH!!!!!! I keep saying, civil disobedience is the only way we can beat this thing.

[ambientboy]

In NYS you are required by law to be 25ft from any designated eating area, even if outside.

Civil disobedience did indeed save the day!!

[elderboy02]

Nice!

[ironpeddler]

Originally Posted by ambientboy

"Your mind works the way none others do, my friend." she replied.

I said, "Nope...that's the way a cigar-smokers brain just works. Share the love."

That's why "Life is Good" to a cigar smoker....we 'get it'

[Blind_Io]

Nice! Way to spread the love and give a nice impression of cigar smokers everywhere. Truly a diplomatic solution.

[uptown_cigar]

Way to stick it to the state! Nice job!

[zmancbr]

Originally Posted by ambientboy

In NYS you are required by law to be 25ft from any designated eating area, even if outside.

Civil disobedience did indeed save the day!!

I love it... that is exactly what should happen IMO... stupid laws created by stupid people...

I can't wait till they try to ban tobacco completely... I bet that will be a day they regret!

[Cigarin-Martin]

Nice!

[epyon26]

hell's yea, keep the sprit alive.