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Gotta love a clueless cigar clerk

junkman_56

junkman_56

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A co-worker went to Bristol last weekend for the NASCAR race.
After visiting a local cigar shop, he emailed me the following:
(I waited until now to post this because I wanted his permission to post his email)
So, I go into a news stand/cigar shop in Boone, NC. All of the usual cigars are offered at about the same prices you see everywhere. The 20 year old girl who is minding the store is standing between me and the walk-in humidor. I ask her if it is open, and she says that it is, but that it contains, "mostly the same cigars that are in the counter displays, but if you're looking for something in particular you should go on in."

Once I get in I find it just as she described, boxes of the same cigars they were selling singles of at the counter. But on the back wall there is a green ammo box with about 50 cigars tossed in fairly carelessly. Laying on top of the collection of cigars was an Opus X.

But not just an Opus X (7 x 50), but an Opus X in a nearly orange cello. This tells me that the cigar is between about 7 and 10 years old. I grab it and a couple of Helix's, and go to the counter to pay. The Helix's were $3.50 each, but the Opus was unmarked. After looking for a price for a couple of minutes in the office she came out and said, "How about $10.00 for all 3?"

It pays to visit local cigar shops. :-)
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He showed me the cigar yesterday and it was a beautiful Opus X Double Corona in a very yellow cello.
Gotta love a clueless cigar clerk :laugh:
 
All of the local shops in my neck of the woods are the same way. The person running the register has no idea what your buying. At one such place they don't have prices on any of the sticks. You walk into the humidor and the prices are written on the boxes or the racks below the boxes. When you go out to pay the clerk they have to ask you the price of all the sticks individually. If I didn't have such a guilty conscious I'd have to figure out a way to turn my swimming pool into a humidor.
 
Thank all the regulars who somehow missed that stick. Opus around here are hard to keep on hand.
 
you guys have to take me shopping.

i'm on a budget of like 50 bucks right now for guilty pleasures (for a whole semester).

at the local one at home, the lady doesn't know too much, but each is priced. too many fuentes in the humidor, and not much of anything else. grrr, now if i could get somoene to open a cigar bar with good stuff and a hooka bar, that would be awesome.
 
All the local cigar shop around here are run by the owners who are pretty knowledgeable. I never have to tell him a price and he always knows exactly what the cigar is when I get to the counter. I can ask him for something that isn't sitting out and he knows eactly where he can find it. I really like going to his shop (he has comfy leather couches and a big screen in his lounge), but he's only open until 6 and I'm always at work too late to stop by on my way home.
 
I've walked out of tobacco stores with full boxes of sealed Anejo's and Hemingway Maduros at below retail. The idiot clerks were pissing themselves because they sold a few boxes at one time.
 
thejollyco said:
grrr, now if i could get somoene to open a cigar bar with good stuff and a hooka bar, that would be awesome.
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Dude, i LOVE to smoke the hookah!!! :rolleyes: I have 3 of my own and I can' wait for the fall to sit on the patio with a bowl full of my Egyptian/ Persion tobacco mixture!!

You are making me drool, dude!
 
one of the best i've had was peach with a hint of grape.

oh man. i've also seen a "homemade" hookah, using chemistry set stuff. now that was awesome. it's too bad that the only hookah bars i've went to are only in nyc.
 
If you ever come to ATL, I will meet you and bring you to the shop where I hang out. It's owned by an Iraqi ex-pat (now and American citizen) and we smoke the hookah there whenever someone feels the need! He has so many awesome flavors that it's like being a kid in a candy store!!
 
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