gotta love those old korean hadabujis : )

[molokai]

I love and respect my grandfather very much, and not only because he left Koera at 16 with nothing and worked his way to a comfertable life for his family and a relaxing retirement or that at 82 he can still slap me upside the head hard enough to make me see stars ; but sometimes I think his old age is getting to him... I write to him every week and recently started sending out cigars occasionally because he lives out in upstate NY and there isn't anything other then Prince Albert and Lucky Strikes and he always wrote how much he loved the cigars; but then I visited him the other day and bought some pretty expensive cubans to smoke with him. I leave for a minute or two to talk to my grandma and before I got out to the porch I smelled the cigars and thought he started without me; but then I got to the porch and saw both of the cubans CUT UP to ribbons and my gramps repacking his pipe from the pile beside him. So I say ' What the hell are you doing?' and got one helluva slap upside the head. After words I explained that you smoke cigars whole, it turns out that he thought that the cigar shape was for convenient and compact packaging. He still maintains that cigar smoking is wastful anyway. I still smoked half of it

 

[wolfscout]

LOL

 

[papipeguy]

The old timers are tough birds. I remember seeing some of them sticking whole cigars in their pipes and smoking them, cigar sticking straight up. Those were men you just didn't mess with. Getting one upside the head was getting off easy.

 

[lordnoble]

:lol: I wish I had a grandpa like that! (Neither of my Grandpa's had to hit. Their voices were loud enough.) Sounds awesome!
Can't imagine smoking cigar tobacco in a pipe. Sounds dreadful!
Anyway, welcome to the forums! Hope to see more of you in the future!
-Jason

 

[cortezattic]

Ditto on the welcome to the forums. Thanks for sharing that nice story with us.

 

[marmal4de]

I love my cubans, one luxury I get that doesnt make up for much :P welcome to the forums!

 

[teamhavoc28]

Molokai, korean family always have that laser slap. They aim for the head. I too also get spoiled with the duty free cigs. Got a carton this week when my sister came in from Inchon. She doesn't understand my need for so many pipes. You are so lucky to spend time with your hadabuji still.

 

[krgulick]

Great story and welcome to a friendly place. Happy to see you have a pair of grandparents with you. Hope to see you here often.

 

[pstlpkr]

Molokai, welcome.

Nothing like a grandfather to knock some sense into you.

GP my grand father was a brick layer... when he'd slap me "upside-de-head" ... well I'd come to my senses immediately and a couple of days later. :D
Glad to have you aboard.

Great post!

 

[yoru]

If you get the right cigar it is actually nice to smoke it in a pipe.
Cubans are the perfect example of idealogical worth and quality. Studies proved a $10 bottle of wine gets higher reviews if you charge $90. A cigar tastes better if you call it a Cuban.
Or perhaps I'm just bitter that for my 18th birthday a friend and I each put . . . a couple hundred if I remember right, in to get a box of Cubans and we preferred King Edward's cheapies.
Oh and I think yer in the running for best first post ever mate, welcome to the forums.

 

[greggors]

Welcome =D smoking a cigar in a pipe sounds tempting but wouldn't it be too dry? Romeo y Julieta's would be nice I'm guessing.

 

[pstlpkr]

I thought you might enjoy this. It's a copy paste from an old string.
Memorable Pipe Smokers
Good afternoon fellas,

One of our newest members Patriotfirst got me to thinking back to my early days of pipe smoking and my curiosity about my new passion, way back when.

I was a go-fer at Woodlawn Hardware Store, it was run by Mr. Fred, and Miss Mae. I made $1 an hour, 19 hours a week. (Old math: $1 x 19 = 2 movie tickets, 2 Sodas, 1 Medium Pizza "all the way", Dad put gas in the car.)

It was a dusty relic of the old style Mom and Pop Hardware stores where you could find things that you couldn't find anywhere else. (after a bit of rummaging of course) (you know the type) Even the hours were antiquated. 6 to 6 Mon. - Sat. except Wednesdays when we closed at noon because of an old blue-law. (so people could go to church) Well there was an old WWI veteran that would come in to buy a couple of nails or screws or just to shoot the breeze. He smoked a pipe with a Rum Soaked Crook cigar in it. I always found this amusing, but practical. He told me he had been smoking that way since "Ma momma give me dis pipe fo my 6'd birt-day. Mah re-ward for bein' a good boy-n stayin' in school".

 

[lagavulin92]

@molokai: it's delightful to hear your story and welcome to the board! It's also great to see pipe-smoking Asians presenting themselves. I'm Asian, too (Vietnamese), but I come from a strict non-smoking family, so there's not much to say about them here.
@yoru: true, but it's not enough to give the price. You have to tell tasters the origin, too. What happens is they start to look for notes that are common to that terroir and find them, however faint, or even non-existent. Conversely, expensive wines that are presented as cheaper or even for a blind test get a less systematic and throrough analysis, resulting in a more meaningful judgement for the average wine consumer.
Habanos have unique characters, that's all. Had I started smoking Honduran or Dominican cigars, I'd say Cubans are overpriced and not worth it. I'll still buy them because I got used to the Cuban goodness :roll:

 

[lagavulin92]

Addition: Smoking a cigar in a pipe will improve the smoke but ruin the pipe for real pipe tobacco. I tried it with a cheap cigar when I went over to the pipe. I don't know what would happen with a great Habana, but I'm happy with my pipes already.

 

[menckenite]

molokai, Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing the story.

 

[marmal4de]

After rereading the thread, it made me think about my Nonna, the most terrifying woman on the earth, 4 foot 2, stout, and wielding the wooden spoon of doom (sometimes boiling hot from stirring some amazing concoction on the stove). What she says goes, no questions asked. When I see her I still hide all my tattoos lest she take them off with a cheese grater!

 

[unclearthur]

Molokai it's good to have you aboard. Brings memories of my wee Irish Granny who had the fastest thimble in the state. A misplaced word could earn you a peck on the head that drove home each lesson taught.

 

[stacen]

Welcome and thanks for the story!

 

[kevinp]

Only thing scarier than a halapaji is a halmoni. Welcome, from Korea, to the forums.

 

[kevinp]

Only thing scarier than a halapaji is a halmoni. Welcome, from Korea, to the forums.