SeanP
16-04-2010, 11:51 AM
In a waking haze this morning (slept in due to a bout of insomnia last night) I hear the door and my wife answering it down stairs from what I assumed was the safety of my bed. Pleasantries exchanged the door closes and a clomp, clomp, clomp up the stairs.... Must be a dream but no, In her hands is a box like none other. A box that could just contain an average adult sized head! A box that makes her look perplexed as much as it makes her tremble with fear. She see's the markings and knows that it can be nothing but death and destruction barely restrained by a think layer of tape. As any good wife would do, she threw the box at me and ran like hell!
Wiping the morning from my eyes reveals it's from an American source... Tennessee to be exact...but not from the one and only person I 'know' in Tennessee but from some character calling himself Shuckins?? Well the USPS declaration on the box says 'Assorted Collectibles' so what harm could come from opening it? Boy was I wrong:eek:!
The Lot
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/TheLot.jpg
From the Left
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/ViewOne.jpg
To the Right
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/ViewTwo.jpg
The damage...
5 Vegas Classic - Great smoke
Padilla Habano - Personal Favorite
601 Black - Very good smoke...but what else do you expect from Pepin??
Crown David Exhibit (natty?) - New to me
CAO Sopranos - Like the CAO but never had the Sopranos line
Punch Double Corona - new to me
Man O War - Oh, Hello AJ Fernandez!
Tabacos Baez - Pepin, enough said
A Fernandez Signature - See MOW...another beauty from Abdel.
Cain Habano DOUBLE TORO! - What a 6"x60 monster :eek:
RP Edge Maddy - All time favorite #1 stick hands down :smoke:
RP 10th Anny ITC - Yep, Rocky Patel :rock:
Crown David Exhibit (maddy?) - New to me again
Secretos del Maestro - New
Occidental Reserve - New but have heard a few rumblings about this one...
Padilla 1932 - Yes please! and was packaged in the super sweet cigar case :top:
Can't a guy just keep his head down and mind his own business around here?? :dontknow: Aren't we all entitled to a nice relaxed morning now and again :sleep: Do I need to hire some muscle for the front door :secruity:now? Do we always have to be vigilant of preemptive strikes from abroad :peep:?
In all seriousness I can only say WOW! WOW, WOW, WOW! I don't know exactly how I ended up on your radar...nor do I know how you got the coordinates :gossip:. But consider yourself on notice...sleep with one eye open, crap with one leg out of your trousers, sniff every bite of food before you eat it, and never sit in the front seat on a bus. I have your number (and will find out who gave me up :typing:). It might not be tomorrow, it might be next week, but it won't be May 11th since I'm traveling that day...But I will get you http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gifhttp://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gifhttp://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gif
Many, many thanks Sir :hail::hail: you went well above and beyond with this and I'm greatly appreciative of your kindness.
Wiping the morning from my eyes reveals it's from an American source... Tennessee to be exact...but not from the one and only person I 'know' in Tennessee but from some character calling himself Shuckins?? Well the USPS declaration on the box says 'Assorted Collectibles' so what harm could come from opening it? Boy was I wrong:eek:!
The Lot
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/TheLot.jpg
From the Left
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/ViewOne.jpg
To the Right
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/ViewTwo.jpg
The damage...
5 Vegas Classic - Great smoke
Padilla Habano - Personal Favorite
601 Black - Very good smoke...but what else do you expect from Pepin??
Crown David Exhibit (natty?) - New to me
CAO Sopranos - Like the CAO but never had the Sopranos line
Punch Double Corona - new to me
Man O War - Oh, Hello AJ Fernandez!
Tabacos Baez - Pepin, enough said
A Fernandez Signature - See MOW...another beauty from Abdel.
Cain Habano DOUBLE TORO! - What a 6"x60 monster :eek:
RP Edge Maddy - All time favorite #1 stick hands down :smoke:
RP 10th Anny ITC - Yep, Rocky Patel :rock:
Crown David Exhibit (maddy?) - New to me again
Secretos del Maestro - New
Occidental Reserve - New but have heard a few rumblings about this one...
Padilla 1932 - Yes please! and was packaged in the super sweet cigar case :top:
Can't a guy just keep his head down and mind his own business around here?? :dontknow: Aren't we all entitled to a nice relaxed morning now and again :sleep: Do I need to hire some muscle for the front door :secruity:now? Do we always have to be vigilant of preemptive strikes from abroad :peep:?
In all seriousness I can only say WOW! WOW, WOW, WOW! I don't know exactly how I ended up on your radar...nor do I know how you got the coordinates :gossip:. But consider yourself on notice...sleep with one eye open, crap with one leg out of your trousers, sniff every bite of food before you eat it, and never sit in the front seat on a bus. I have your number (and will find out who gave me up :typing:). It might not be tomorrow, it might be next week, but it won't be May 11th since I'm traveling that day...But I will get you http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gifhttp://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gifhttp://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/71Rig/uzi.gif
Many, many thanks Sir :hail::hail: you went well above and beyond with this and I'm greatly appreciative of your kindness.