I'm so tempted to start a thread about this, but I've been pioneering a lot of dumb threads lately, so I'll just shuff it here.
In the past two years, I've taught myself to like tea and coffee. In recent weeks, I've been eying more 'adult' things, chief among them cigars.
I've never smoked anything in my life. Not cigarettes, not anything. The closest I've come is walking into my smoking uncle's house, and catching a whiff of the smoke clinging to everything in the house.
Anyhow. I read up a bit, and kept seeing recommended Montecristo No. 4's as a good beginner cigar. So yesterday, after I got paid, I went to a smoke shop and picked up everything I'd need. Wooden matches, a cigar cutter, and a Montecristo No. 4.
I just smoked it an hour ago. I don't live in a smoker friendly house, and bars here don't allow smoking at all, so I did so outside. There was a bit of a breeze, so trying to light it was a nightmare. It didn't burn evenly, and I didn't get to smoke the whole thing. But I'm not too disappointed: I expected as much for a first time, and with nobody knowledgeable to teach me.
I can't say I loved it, but it was okay. I certainly liked it more than I liked coffee on my first go.
Speaking of coffee, the cigar tasted almost like it. More like a coffee aftertaste, plus the smell of fresh ground coffee beans. It reminded me when I was a child, going to the supermarket with my mother. I used to love to walk by the fresh coffee for the aroma of it. The cigar had almost that flavor, but a bit harsher. I wish I had a dialect that would let me talk about it more, because 'coffee' is really all I can say about it. But I suppose building a vocabulary for these things is something that happens gradually with experience.
Anyhow. It was an interesting first time. I'll admit that I'm tempted to buy another soon, but it was expensive, and I don't have the kind of money to smoke regularly. Besides, I really don't want to be fooling around too much when it comes to nicotine.
The only thing is ... it gave me a headache. Of course, I had always been told that tobacco can do that to you, but I had forgotten. Am I correct in assuming that that's the sort of thing that goes away in time?
As for acquiring new tastes ... in the next few months, I'll be moving on to alcohol. I'll definitely be posting a new topic when it comes time to get down to business with that.
And yeah, I'm not sure where I was when my high school friends were experimenting with this stuff. I like to think I was a bit beyond their maturity level, and I'm glad that I didn't do this sort of thing years ago with them, what with the smoking until they threw up, getting so drunk they needed their stomachs pumped, and being arrested for toking up in a public park. But that said, it is a little embarrassing to be such a late bloomer.
