Between yesterday and today the Boston area got hit with 18 inches or so of snow. Late this afternoon I headed out to take care of the shoveling, so I grabbed a cigar (7-20-4 dog walker) to make the work more enjoyable. For a while I was shoveling and holding the cigar in my lips, but that was making me salivate profusely, so I grabbed an ashtray and set the stick there to rest. I built up a good routine--shovel a bit, take a puff or two, go back and shovel a bit more. It was cold but enjoyable, and the stick was strong and tasty. UNTIL....

...I went back for another puff and found that the wind had knocked my poor little cigar into a pile of slush and snow. The cigar had gone out, so I clipped the foot and tried desperately to relight it, but it was too wet. :-) It was a tragedy that tarnished the rest of my shoveling!

So what unexpected events have caused your smoking to come to an untimely end?
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The worst by far for me was when I was working in the garage and smoking at the same time and not paying too much attention to my smoke. When to take a puff and put the ash end of the cigar in my mouth. Didn't burn myself luckily but it did ruin my palatte for the rest of teh day. Needless to say the stick got pitched.
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I was outside smoking a Viaje Exclusivo Robusto...all was well and then it started raining like heck. So I stood up against the house trying not to get rained on, squeezed an extra 10 minutes out of it. But ultimately there was about 20% left when I had to pitch it, stupid wind.
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Only the ones I voluntarily cut short because they taste like sh!t.
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A wife and kids = many a cigar cut short before their time was done.
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EXACT same thing happened to me when grilling my dinner turned into a grease fire. It was an A. Fuente Don Carlos that accidentally got turned around in my hand amidst the confusion. Needless to say I dropped that sucker to the ground and didn't think twice.
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... the girlfriend telling me to come home.
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Pantywaist! :-)
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i am guilty of this too.
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Stop stalking me just to slap me, old fart.
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I dropped a 70's Upmann in the toilet last Thanksgiving ...
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Shouldn't smoke while you pee!
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I often have the same thing happen to me. I smoke a cigar a lot of times when I'm washing my car (during the summer of course :-) ). Sometimes, I put it down and occasionally it rolls away into a puddle.
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Who Said He Was Peeing?????:-)
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Don't put your ashtray on the ground while the dog is running around the yard. 'nuf said.
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I lost an Oliva MB3 out the window yesterday. Unfortunately I was smoking in a second-floor sun room, so it actually fell pretty far. I tried to dust it off and keep smoking, but I couldn't keep the crackred wrapper from unraveling.
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I work at a cigar shop and the worst experience I've ever had was when I had just finished pricing a bunch of stuff and lit up a Padron 1926 80th anniversary and was looking forward to it all day....I took about a total of 7 puffs then set it on the ashtray....I went to ring up a customer and when I returned my co worker had thrown it in the fire can thinking it was the guys who had just left....it was the worst cigar experience of my life....
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After reading these stories, I don't feel so bad about having my smoke cut short. That Padron story is horrible! And winding up with the lit end of a cigar in your mouth gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "putting your foot in your mouth!!!" :-)
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Bar fights.
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I learned this lesson the hard way while at the local shop. I went into the bathroom to pee and kept the cigar in my mouth. While doing my duty, the ash (pretty darn warm, too) fell and hit me square on the shaft. I pissed all over the toilet. I walked out, looked at everyone, and said, "beware of smoking while you pee....you might ash on your d***!" We all shared a good laugh and I learned a very valuable lesson that day :-)
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