Attending my first herf in Albany back in March. I had just gotten into cigars around the beginning of this year, and it was great meeting other BOTLs and just talking about smokes and accessories. I also learned a major herfing no-no that day. I had brought a travel humi about half full with smokes to share, and made the mistake of leaving it open on a table for anyone to help themselves. Of course, when I got home and opened it, the damn thing was completely full.
A few weeks ago, the wife and I had dinner with the in-laws at their lake camp. Afterwards, I had a cigar while sitting at the water's edge. It was really peaceful just enjoying a smoke, looking out across the water.
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Another great time just happened at this year's Shack Herf V.

It was great just to witness the punishment puff puff pass. Seeing everyones reaction to the fake Cohiba and what was inside it was hillarious :-)
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oh yeah! How could I forget my first Cuban? It was also my first Cuban box purchase. I had been reading CS for a while and just decided to try one of the vendors from the banner ads. I figured, "they wouldn't let people advertise fakes on CS right?"

well I was right and still order from the same guys today. The excitement of getting that first box was intense. I had never even seen a CC before. I didn't expect it to live up to my expectations but it certainly did.
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I have two that I can think of off the top of my head.

First: on my birthday this year I enjoyed my first shared CC moment with a couple friends at the casino bar after an amazing dinner at my favorite restaurant. We smoked Monte #4s

Second: was last night, for a long time I have wanted to have a smoke with my Grandfather and last night I finally did, we were going to smoke on his balcony but it started pouring so we went to the local B&M and I grabbed a Illusione Epernay Le Petite and picked out an Ashton for him.
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My first Hillbilly Herf last year... If you weren't there, you wouldn't understand!:-)
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This year in Vegas my gf ask for the first time to share a cigar with me. After an amazing dinner at the Paris, then a long time at Club 54, we went to do se early a.m. gambling where we shared a Lot 23 Robusto.
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I've only been smoking for a short time so I don't have many "experiences" to be honest the only one I really have it the Padron 1926 Maduro that I smoked the day of my grandfathers funeral.

As weird as it sounds it was a celebratory smoke, not a mourning one. I was celebrating his life not his death.
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Pier at the shack, any time I can be so lucky...
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Been thinking all day, and still can't think of one more meaningful to me than this one. Still have the 898 band in my SHIV nametag hanging from my computer desk. :-)

3rd, 4th and 5th guys from the left on the CigarAsylum banner are us three smoking that very cigar.
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Well, mine is interesting because it hasn't happened yet. It's going to be the Epic2! :-)
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Road trip with my boss and his brothers to Cigar Fest. Most fun I had in years.

MCS
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we will make sure u have a good time.


One time that i think about a lot is the fist time my dad got to smoke a CC. i was still new to the dark side, so it was a big deal. We got to sit out in his man cave and we both cranked up a monte #2. it took about 2 hours and we just talked.
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Would have to be my first cigar, shared with friends on my 40th birthday at the Mandalay Bay sports book in Vegas. Good friends, good times.

Close second would be meeting my first CS member in person. Guitarman ST. Football, pizza and smokes:-)
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Last night at Bill's "BillyCigars" new private cigar club, the Vertigo Club located just south of the sports stadiums in downtown Seattle. Small gathering of "Mossbacks", hell of a nice evening and a heck of a nice place. :-)
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Since I saw this thread earlier today I have been trying to narrow it down to one time but I can't. I have 3 times.
The first time I got together with JK5. Sitting there smoking that Padron that you gave me changed my whole look on cigars.
The first Herf I ever went to with the VA crew. I had a blast. Thanks again Ben for the chance to try some of that Red Dot.
When I was in Vegas in Feb. I got to meet up with Andrew and Andy. My wife was with me and she was very nervous about meeting up with "some guys you don't know off the net." Needless to say we had an amzing time. Thanks again fellas.
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1st - Smoking a God of Fire on the patio of our hotel in Myrtle Beach with my soon to be wife watching the surf. I proposed to her that morning. The cigar was blah, but the setting was fantastic.
2nd - Meeting Al, Dave, and Jeremy at Quaker Steak back in March. First time I had ever met any of them and I was welcomed like I had known them all my life.
3rd - Sunset at Shack V. Nothing more has to be said for that one.
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Thought of two more...that don't directly involve my smoking:

My father was a Habanophile long before I came along...and when he ran out of his stash of pre-Embargos, he gave up cigars altogether. About twenty years later a new member of his Masonic lodge turned out to be an exile Cuban, and somewhere along the way he started giving my father a Cuban cigar once in a while. My father would light 'em up on the front porch, and my bedroom window was right above. While I professed to detest smoking (product of my time I guess), the smoke would drift up into my room...and I hated to admit it, but I LOVED the smell of it.

Three times this year, while I was smoking a CC (and was nervous about complaints from nonsmokers around me), I've heard people downwind of me say "I don't know what that guy's smoking, but it smells GOOD!" :-)
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I would say the most memorable is being able to share a smoke with any one of the BOTL/SOTL on here. I am most fortunate to have some great friends that are close that I share smokes with. I am also fortunate to share a smoke from time to time with family, my brother to be in fact. Anytime I share a smoke with anyone it is memorable.
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Probably not exactly what was meant by "memorable", but I was amused the other day while smoking an Oliva Series O perfecto at the docks after missing a ferry. I was being polite and standing well at the end of the dock away from the cars that were waiting, but that didn't stop some lady in a Land Rover from throwing a fit about it just loudly enough so I'd be sure to hear it, teach me to smoke a cigar in the Seattle area... I would have enjoyed the perfecto regardless, but a great cigar AND pissing off an uptight Seattleite at the same time? Priceless.
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Smoking NC montes in the garden area of the hospital with my father and brother shortly after my son was born. I had 3 of them in the pocket of my scrubs the entire morning until it was time to light 'em up.
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