Cigar salutations from the Old Glory Society*
If you’re a cigar smoker, you get used to people cracking wise about the cigar in your hand or the smoke in your vicinity. They either dig cigars or despise them and that means that, instantly, they either dig or despise me unless of course I actually speak to them in which case the despise ratio goes way up. They say things like, “Is that a Cuban cigar?” or “You gonna smoke that thing?” or “Hey bro, nice stogie!” None of these people know anything about cigars and they use terms like stogie to pretend they do. I usually ignore these funny little people with their funny little quips and their tinsy-weensy IQs, but when they imply I’m somehow in possession of a stogie I take offense. And I’ll tell you why.