Today, the lack of common sense that someone had enspired me to write a quick story. Let me start by introducing todays main character, Cry Baby Chistine.

This Afternoon while spending some time at a local cigar shop, enjoying a nice cigar and talking to a friend (Cigar Shop Bill), in comes Cry Baby Christine.

Cigar Shop Bill - Hello, Can I help you

Cry Baby Christine - No thanks I’m just looking around

Cigar Shop Bill - Ok, Just let me know if you need anything, more than happy to help you

Cigar Shop Bill and I continue our conversation while enjoying our fine hand made cigars.

Cry Baby Christine - Excuse me, The smell of your cigars Offend me, and the smoke is bothering me

Cigar Shop Bill - Oh I’m sorry let me move to the other end of the shop for you, he asks me nicely if I minded taking our conversation to the front of the store.

I agree, I don’t want to bother one of the customers

Cry Baby Christine - I don’t think moving is going to help, could you go outside or put your cigars out.

At this point I look at Cigar Shop Bill and say, I’m sorry Bill I don’t think so. We head up to the front of the store to keep Cry Baby Christine away from us as much as possible

A minute or two goes by and Cry Baby Christine approaches the front of the store.

Cry Baby Christine - I can’t believe you didn’t put your cigars out when I asked you to, I’ll take my business elsewhere.

Ok, Now I understand that things bother people. But I mean lets stop and think about this. Would you go into Toys R Us and ask children to stop playing with toys. Would you go into the local bar and ask the bartender not to sell beer because the smell offends you. WHY IN GODS NAME would you go into a CIGAR SHOP where you can clearly see people SMOKING a cigar if cigar smoke OFFENDS YOU!!! I would love to see Cry Baby Christine on the street somewhere and have her come up to me and tell me my cigar smoke offends her!!! She would get a burst of laughter from me while I continued to Puff away on my stogie!! If  I know something bother me I tend not to subject myself to it. If I don’t like loud noises, I don’t go to loud places. Oh excuse me Mr. DJ or Mr. Singer at a concert, your music is to loud can you  turn it down. We all can guess how that would go right. Now I do enjoy a cigar when possible, I do my best not to subject non cigar smokers to the bad habbit, but coming into a cigar shop and asking people to put out their expensive cigars, I mean WHAT WAS this person really thinking. She is the kind of person that would go to Greatful Dead or a Tom Petty concert and be upset that people were smoking weed. I really just wanted to run to the local coffee shop and grab an empty cup. Then hand it to her and SCREAM, SHOW ME HOW YOU DRINK FROM THE STUPID CUP.