Taste this............

[El Presidente]

 

I can't do it.  I feel like Sheldon Cooper in BBT. 

It freaks the bejesus out of me. 

 

Picture the scenario. 

5 blokes at a cigar event  (Jim, Bob, Larry, NG,  Mustaffa and myself) are on the balcony cradling a glass of fine rum and each with a different cigar. 

Jim is smoking a 1971 Por Larranaga Magnum.....and says "this is simply out of this world good. The complexity, the honey...amazing". 

 

In my mind I hear the following. 

 

 

and then it happens. 

 

"Mustaffa....you have to try this" Mustaffa does.  "Brilliant"!!! he says. Then Jim has a tug....followed by Bob......all are effusive in their praise. 

I start backing toward the balcony door thinking "please god no!"

...but then it happens ......and it happens in slow motion.  Jim turns to me and says

...."R OOOOOO  B.......H AAAAAAAV E .....A .....TAAAASTE....."

 

i don't want to upset him

I don't want to take a tug on the shared bong. 

 

...am I a bad man 

 

 

[GotaCohiba]

Not gonna happen

[GasGuy82]

8 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

 

I can't do it.  I feel like Sheldon Cooper in BBT. 

It freaks the bejesus out of me. 

 

Picture the scenario. 

5 blokes at a cigar event  (Jim, Bob, Larry, NG,  Mustaffa and myself) are on the balcony cradling a glass of fine rum and each with a different cigar. 

Jim is smoking a 1971 Por Larranaga Magnum.....and says "this is simply out of this world good. The complexity, the honey...amazing". 

 

In my mind I hear the following. 

 

 

and then it happens. 

 

"Mustaffa....you have to try this" Mustaffa does.  "Brilliant"!!! he says. Then Jim has a tug....followed by Bob......all are effusive in their praise. 

I start backing toward the balcony door thinking "please god no!"

...but then it happens ......and it happens in slow motion.  Jim turns to me and says

...."R OOOOOO  B.......H AAAAAAAV E .....A .....TAAAASTE....."

 

i don't want to upset him

I don't want to take a tug on the shared bong. 

 

...am I a bad man 

 

 

 

[inter4alia]

Nope.

[luckme10]

Cigar circle jerks are the best, aren’t they? ?

[MoeFOH]

 

[Derboesekoenig]

I won't even share any of my cutters/punches/etc. if I even THINK that someone had their cigar in their mouth first. Not sorry.

[cigaraholic]

With my friends yes.....but I don’t know yours?

[Notsocleaver]

For the only puff of a Por Larranaga Magnum that I'll likely ever get in my life? Sure. For 'Dude, for real, this is the best Quintero I've ever had...' naw.

[multi-useless]

Even if not for the shared slobber factor, could you imagine taking one drag - only one drag - and never smoking it again?  The better the cigar, the more everything else would be ruined for you...  doomed to a life of chasing just a hint of that perfect cigar, just one more time...

 

So my answer is no, essentially for the same reasons I don't smoke crack...

[mikeyjb]

I remember I was in year 8 and I wanted to learn the saxophone. I was told the best thing was to learn the clarinet first. So I signed up. So our teacher was a heavy (heavy) smoker. Anyway so what he liked to do when I made a mistake was take my clarinet and demonstrate on it. Of course when I got it back it tasted like an ashtray. Told mum and dad when I got home and they put in a complaint and we ended up with a new teacher...

I can still remember the taste and it nearly makes me vomit in my mouth

[shrink]

That's not a bong, it's a hookah. 

[JamesKPolkEsq]

I'd never ask, but I would definitely try if offered. 

Why not? What is the difference between this and taking a snip of someone else's wine? 

[mikeyjb]

Oral Herpes anyone?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/oral-herpes

[BG1165]

Would the story twist after say, two more rums?

[Hammer Smokin']

interesting thread.

my wife will often ask for a taste of my cigar, which I gladly allow. she doesn't ever want a full cigar, but doesn't hate them, and I smoke them infront of her without issue (she is a cigarette smoker, which I am not - I guess a trade off).

don't really have an interest in sharing a cigar with anyone else.

but strangely enough, passing a joint around is normal culture....

[bmf30180]

Maybe...

 

[mikeyjb]

[rguinn]

Not no, but HELL NO!!!!

[ayepatz]

No, you’re not a bad man. But, be honest, it’s probably not the worst thing you’ve ever shared...?

[OZCUBAN]

No problem with people I know plus the rum will kill the germs your keyboard or touch screen probably holds more danger ?

[ponfed]

1 hour ago, mikeyjayjay said:

I remember I was in year 8 and I wanted to learn the saxophone. I was told the best thing was to learn the clarinet first. So I signed up. So our teacher was a heavy (heavy) smoker. Anyway so what he liked to do when I made a mistake was take my clarinet and demonstrate on it. Of course when I got it back it tasted like an ashtray. Told mum and dad when I got home and they put in a complaint and we ended up with a new teacher...

I can still remember the taste and it nearly makes me vomit in my mouth

Should've started smoking. Maybe you'd be a killer sax player by now?

Plus smoking makes you look cool, even more so in year 8.

[rascalmonkey]

kind of got past that with all the shared joints from days of yore

[new2habano]

Come on Rob, 

    Have you ever heard the phrase, " Puff & Pass the Blunt " ?     We've all done it....some more than others (Ken) . 

[grizzlee]

So we'll share a bed with someone who has shared a bed with others, we'll kiss someone who has kissed another, we may take a nip off a drink of another to taste, we'll use a public toilet when the need arises, we may have passed a blunt from another or shared a bong; but we won't take a puff on a shared cigar?

Granted the key to all the above is the selectivity and timing applied. So would I puff on any cigar from any person - Hell no, but for the right cigar puffed after a selective few - Sure, it might be a one time shot to try that particular smoke.