Working shiftwork and having kids involved in every activity under the sun, activities in which I involve myself to spend time with them or I’d never see them, I don’t always have the time I’d like to spend chilling out enjoying a full size cigar. That’s why I always try to keep a few smaller cigars on hand. This week I am working the midnight shift and the weather is great, around 65-70 degrees at 7:30am. Perfect weather to come home and sit on the Porch with a good beer and small cigar. (I’ve tried lighting up bigger stogies after a midnight shift, but I always find myself waking up around 11:00am humped over in my chair with half of a warm beer sitting next to me. And everyone knows that your body only gives you half credit for hours slept in a chair, and choking down a warm is sometime’s pretty tough but we do it don’t we men?)
The latest small cigar purchase I’ve made is the QE2 Rex Britainnia. These are 4 inches long with a 40 ring size. They have a real sweet taste on your lips while you are lighting it and it feels like you’ll never get it lit. Once it was lit, I had a hard time getting anything out of it. I had to keep re-lighting it and about halfway down it transformed into a less than mediocre smoke. It’s almost like they are over humidified, but I know that’s not the case because I bought 5 tins of eight cigars each about a month ago and I’m on my third tin and nothing has changed. The 20th cigar is just as bad as the first one. These are not good cigars, the ad said “at these prices it’s almost impossible to go wrong”. I beg to differ. I won’t be buying these again. Maybe I’ll bring them to my family reunion and pass them out to all my brothers and nephew’s on the last day. I’ve got to get rid of them somehow.
I think I’d rather wake up to a warm beer and a sore neck than to smoke another one of these.
Posted by Mr. Porch