Tatuaje dud

[allusred]

Well I've been smoking cigars for a couple of years now and have never gotten a stick so plugged that it was unsmokeable. Until today.

I've had a 10th Anniversary Tat in the humidor for a while and have been really looking forward to it. I had planned to smoke it on my 13th wedding anniversary but didn't get around to it.

Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word).
The cigar is a smaller ring gauge so I give it a straight cut and fire it up. The draw is so tight I can't hardly get anything out of it. It's like getting a thick milkshake and trying to get a drink of it.

The foot is pouring off smoke like crazy but I could hardly get anything out of it.

I tried and tried to roll it around but it didn't seem to have any plugs that I could feel. I took my pipe tool and tried to clear anything out near the head, to no avail.

Finally, less than an inch in, I got pissed and threw it against the wall. Then I picked it up and cut it open. I couldn't find any plugs. It was just rolled so tightly it wouldn't allow any air through.

It sucks. I know Tatuaje is a good company. Anyone who makes a handmade product will have some bad ones every now and then.
The flavors I got were great.

Sorry, I had to rant. This is an anniversary edition that the B&M is out of so getting another is out of the question. Dammit.

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"Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word)"
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Shittier may or may not be a word but it sure as hell is a state of being.That time when no matter how totally screwed up everything is, it somehow just keeps getting worse no matter what you do. Nothing, no how, no kind of way can or will put an end to it. Leastways that's the way those sort of days or weeks always seem to be...worse and worser no matter what you do.
Seems as if the good gets put on hold until the bad has had its run.
Onliest thing to do, once things brighten up ...is to realize that that bloody state of Shitty and then shittier is the state some live their entire lives in.
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Here's to better times better smokes.

[Cool Breeze]

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"Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word)"
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Onliest thing to do, once things brighten up ...is to realize that that bloody state of Shitty and then shittier is the state some live their entire lives in.
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Here's to better times better smokes.

Oh yeah man.
I've got it good. I get a little whiney sometimes but I'm under no illusions. I've never really had it bad.

And there are plenty of good cigars in the humidor and pipe tobacco in the cellar. Life is good.