I don’t really have a favorite brand, as my palate is nowhere near discriminating enough to make it worthwhile to pick one. I got a really good deal on these, as my local liquor store went out of the cigar business and I grabbed a box of them for half off.
Were the La Auroras good? Like I say, a premium is usually wasted on me, and I generally only have a cigar once a week or less.
That’s why I was pissed off recently - I bid on a gorgeous humidor at the silent auction at our church, and nearly had it, but I was working the cashier station and the Scoutmaster of our local troop snatched it out from under me. Then he made it a point to take it thru my line to show that he snagged it, the bastard.
They were astonishing. Only made a very limited number of boxes, and I went to a launch party. I like a Cameroon wrapper, so I usually tend to smoke the La Aurora Preferido Robusto (Cameroon). I have also developed a definite taste for CAO CX2 Robustos. Both in the $10 ballpark, which if you are smoking one or two a week isn’t too bad.
What is even more amusing is that they are probably always sold at the same desk as the Western Union machine. God forbid a smoker has to walk from the cigarette counter to the Western Union counter to send money. They also tend to be sold at the same desk as one uses to register for loyalty cards, because God forbid a smoker should have to walk any further than he has to to sign up for a VIC card after buying his smokes.
Or, possibly more likely, they are sold by the door because they are sold at the customer service counter, which is up front for multiple reasons (such as being close to the checkouts), and it is doubtful that the length of walk for smokers is a primary consideration. It would also make sense to put the point of sale for items that people are more likely to drop in just to purchase on their own, such as cigarettes, near the front.
I think you people need to get off Tripler’s ass - how many times does he need to say he had a flawed understanding of the law before it soaks into your little peabrains? This is one of the things that pisses me off the most about this place, when people just WILL NOT quit kicking that dead horse.
My point was not that he was wrong about the law, nor even that he showed a fairly remarkable sense of self-assuredness in bothering a number of other people about his ill-conceived (and should-have-been-known-to-him-to-be-ill-conceived, unless he is an actual you know lawyer) legal misconceptions.
If he had just said: “Hey, it’s illegal to display cigarettes openly in a bargain bin,” I might have mildly dinged him for officiously offering unfounded amateur-hour legal advice, but that’s about it, at most.
My focus was solely on the monotonous, obsessive, drone-like, and no doubt incredibly irritating to the minimum wage staff, dull-minded repetition of the location of the cigarettes. Yes, we get it. Yes, we can see where they are. No, none of us have any doubt of whether they are in the bargain bin. No one is disputing that there are, in fact, adjacent Snickers bars. That is not, however, a complaint or an argument, standing alone.
Please stop repeating their location. Please get to your point about why (you mistakenly think) their location matters.
Agreed. The issue wasn’t that it was illegal and he reported it. The issue was the horror in the observation of such a thing and the insistance to notify all that will listen (including us) how horrible it was that cancer sticks were out where people could actually see and purchase them. GASP!! Legal or not.
It was a bit of an extreme reaction in my opinion, for the situation, both here and at the store. As if they were a bin of poisonous snakes or grenades.
