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Da Klugs
07-23-2010, 02:06 PM
So last week I'm down in Evansville, IN with my (business) partner playing golf at Victoria National. Wednesday 97 degrees 90% humidity, Thursday 98 degrees 91% Humidity. (I made up the humidity numbers but it shure seemed like it). If you took inmates from the Indiana state pen and made them do what we did... their lawyers would have filed and won on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment. Drank 8 bottles of water on the course Wednesday, old guy me... no pee. We had fun, I got a couple of surprise pars and we did a bit of night life at the casino, etc.

Had to be home for a meeting at the island by 5 on Friday. Got up at 4 am for my 6 am flight. Got there and it was delayed until 7:30. Asked the gate agent why they ask for contact phone and email if they don't ever use them? She seem to want to comment on my parental lineage but refrained.

Around 7:30 they announce that the plane will not be ready till 9:30 and that .. for me all connections are booked - might not get home till earliest 11pm.

Commented that I should have driven. A nice couple standing in line with me starts to fret about missing their retreat in Cleveland. This hits me on two levels, sorry for them and amazed that someone would come to Cleveland on a retreat. (Still have a bad attitude about Lebron leaving).

The wife asks that if I was going to drive that They would come along. We end up heading to the carousel and I rent a car. Ask them .. you guys aren't ax murderers or anything are you. He says not for many years that the blood lust was replaced with the desire to cause non lethal pain for extended periods. I knew we were going to have a nice trip.

Long long drive, but folks of similar political, social and child rearing views so conversation made the time pass quickly. 7 hours later dropped them off at their hotel in downtown Cleveland. Told them I was on expense account and didn't take any money and that hoped they would have a great weekend getting away from the kids together.

Package came today. He is plant manager of a not to be named KY bourbon distillery. 25 years old from three different barrels. He proofed it at 94 and bottled it himself. Unfiltered un anything, right form the barrel.

Pay it forward = taste test at the shack. Which of the 3 barrels is best. :)

One of those little vignettes of life that, for me at least, show the true rewards of being a "good neighbor" in all contexts. Made some lifelong Friends.

pnoon
07-23-2010, 02:18 PM
Life is beautiful. :)
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Texan in Mexico
07-23-2010, 02:23 PM
Nice story - I have the firm belief that most of us are still "good people".
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icehog3
07-23-2010, 02:35 PM
Great story, and a truly compelling case of "you reap what you sow". :D

Volt
07-23-2010, 02:37 PM
Bourbon :dr

Karma - She is gonna get you, how just depends on your life. Great story.

TheTraveler
07-23-2010, 02:44 PM
That's an excellent story. Thank you for sharing that. You obviously didn't expect anything from you generous gesture but that guy sure knows how to pay someone back for a favor. He's not a member of CA is he? :D

BigAsh
07-23-2010, 02:45 PM
:tu.....I got all warm inside.....like, you know, from drinking 25 yr. old bourbon!....great story, thanks for the day brightener!

elderboy02
07-23-2010, 04:36 PM
Nice story Dave! :tu

stevieray
07-23-2010, 05:12 PM
Truly a great PIF story :)

Thanks for sharing Dave

bobarian
07-23-2010, 05:21 PM
Great story Dave! Its great when we can share the PIF lifestyle beyond just cigars. :tu

I suspect your new friend may be getting an introduction into the world of cigars. :banger

blugill
07-23-2010, 05:38 PM
Awesome story!

M1903A1
07-23-2010, 06:06 PM
NICE!!!!! (On all counts!)

CigarNut
07-23-2010, 06:16 PM
Thanks for sharing!

Ain't Karma a wonderful thing!

SoCalSmoker
07-23-2010, 06:29 PM
Dave, great story.
Now wish I was coming to Shack, not for the bourbon but to see you and all the other brothers.
Hope all is good.

We missed you a couple of weeks ago.

pnoon
07-23-2010, 08:00 PM
Dave, great story.
Now wish I was coming to Shack, not for the bourbon but to see you and all the other brothers.
Hope all is good.

We missed you a couple of weeks ago.

I agree, Deem. On all points.

markem
07-23-2010, 08:11 PM
boomerang karma. Ain't it grand :tu

sobranie10
07-23-2010, 08:33 PM
I always say Life a adventure worth living. Dave great adventure.

St. Lou Stu
07-23-2010, 09:32 PM
Awesome story Dave!
At least you remembered your cigars this year. :r
See ya in a month.:tu

ahc4353
07-23-2010, 09:41 PM
That story is just awesome.

SmokeyJoe
07-24-2010, 05:21 PM
Great story, and a truly compelling case of "you reap what you sow". :D

Exactly!

Well done, Dave. Bet you are in for a real treat... tasty bourbon. :dr

The Dakotan
07-24-2010, 07:34 PM
What a great story. What I find oddest about your story telling is that you might be just as sarcastic as me. :D

You deserved every bit of what you god, Dave!

markem
07-24-2010, 07:36 PM
[...] you god, Dave!

Never heard it put quite so eloquently or correctly before, Jeff. :banger

The Dakotan
07-24-2010, 08:12 PM
Never heard it put quite so eloquently or correctly before, Jeff. :banger

haha! Yeah, maybe I should proof what I write! but what I wrote is true too. :=:

SmokinApe
07-25-2010, 08:58 AM
Great story Dave... That bourbon looks amazing...

GreekGodX
07-25-2010, 09:25 AM
That's awesome :tu I don't think many people these days would do something like that, especially from my age group.

yourchoice
07-26-2010, 08:36 PM
Dave, when you posted your "been gone for a while" thread, I realized how much I missed your wonderfully described stories and well thought out posts. This one just put a huge smile on my face. :)

yourchoice
08-25-2010, 11:16 AM
So....do tell, how was it and which barrel was best?

sjnovakovich
08-25-2010, 11:33 AM
Like the song says, "Karma's a *itch." I have found that Karma can also be an angel.

mmblz
08-25-2010, 11:56 AM
cool story...
i only tasted one of the bottles... on saturday morning on my way out...
it was good :)

OLS
08-25-2010, 12:27 PM
Yeah, Jules, I was like "THREE bottles?" The one I tasted was the makers mark
looking bottle and it was EXquisite!. Bursting with aromas and flavors. I say bursting
because the liquid literally exploded in your mouth. Smooth as silk and fine as frog
hair. I am a whiskey man before anything else, and I count myself lucky to have had
a large sip. I think it lasted a good hour and a half. The tiniest drop exploded into a
mouthful of spectacular alcoholic splendor. I nursed that lil plastic cup for SO long.
Now you've gone and done it, you're BACK up on top for man of the year, Dave.

e-man67
08-25-2010, 12:55 PM
I had several tastes of the bottle on the left....it was superb.

Whee
08-25-2010, 01:26 PM
The bottle on the left was fantastic. The story makes it just that much sweeter.

Bill86
08-25-2010, 01:39 PM
Good things happen to good people it's true but in the form of bourbon? Never knew about that! A gesture like that is something you could never forget.

OLS
09-02-2010, 04:33 PM
If I knew I could always get that taste and that expression, I would ONLY buy this
kind of drink, were it available. sadly i think that I could buy 25 year old whiskey
and it wouldn't even be close! I can't properly describe how complex and unique it was.

Montano
09-02-2010, 05:21 PM
Karma, Brother, good karma :D

I love bourbon !!

icehog3
09-02-2010, 10:10 PM
I am not a big bourbon guy, but this stuff was the shiznit.

CEC_Tech
09-04-2010, 12:28 PM
The "proof" that Nice Guys DON'T Finish Last.

ODLS1
09-04-2010, 04:21 PM
That's awesome, and I'm very jealous. I would love to know more details, but completely understand him and you not wanting to share. It would make me more jealous I'm sure. I love bourbon and good people.

OLS
10-01-2010, 09:51 AM
I was wondering, is there anything out there that comes anywhere CLOSE to that stuff? I know
it would have to have decades in a barrel to even come close, but I have been hell bent to
find something like that in a store so I can have a shot now and again. But there is no way
I am going to wander the woods like Hansel and Gretel tasting one old whiskey after another.
It literally exploded with flavor on the palate, like a liquid pop-rock under concentrate.
It was chewable. And I want to do it again. But what do I buy, at any price, to get there? hmmm.