Urgent Cold

It's cold. I just read a post that described the coldness here in Boston as urgent and I thought that was really good. This Sat. night I went out to meet up with some friends who have formed a cigar club. Five of us are splitting a membership to a cigar of the month club from http://cigar.com. This was the very first gathering of our club and I'd have to say it was a great success. We went to a "cigar bar" in faneuil hall. The place was very comfortable with nice leather couches and soft music. There was a lot of space, but only a few other smokers, so the cigar smoke was quite bearable. I was wondering how we could be smoking in the place with the whole smoking ban thing, so we asked the bartender about it. Apparently the rule is that any smoking bar that existed before the ban can continue to operate as long as 60% of their sales comes from tobacco. No new smoking bars are allowed. So if you're going to buy any cigars in Boston how about going to this place that's across the street from the Rack so they can stay open for awhile.

Now after the smoking we headed over to the Green Dragon for a few more drinks. It was cold, but I was ready. I was wearing more clothes than I had all winter. Long undies, sweater, smoking jacket, regular jacket, scarf, gloves, and hood up. Standing in line for the bar I honestly felt pretty comfortable. Feeling comfortable on that coldest of nights made me feel like I was giving the big middle finger to winter. F-you winter... I'm not cold. I can just put on more clothes and handle whatever you've got. Then as if to say, "shut the f up", a big gust of wind rushed by and I could feel a little chill slip through my defense and my eyeballs were cold. "Uncle", I say.

While we were waiting outside some girl from the bar really wanted to give the middle finger to winter. She came out in a little no sleeve sweater thingy to smoke a cigarette. Everyone waiting in line just stared at her thinking/saying, "you have got to be the dumbest person ever". Seriously. You have to be really hooked on the cancer sticks to pull a stunt like that.