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Sr Mike · 08-29-2009, 01:29 PM

Every S.H.I.T. herf is a memorable experience, but I will share one that was not during that herf.

A few years back, a buddy of mine and I went on a road trip to Arizona. Finally arriving at the hotel around 8:30 pm. The hotel we were at was in shambles, they called it construction, the door for the bathroom had been kicked in, and the faucet in the bathroom was loose from the sink. The place was pretty ratty.

We were on the second floor. As we were sitting on the balcony smoking Mombacho Thermonuclears (wonderful cigars BTW) we were having a great time BSing about everything in life, joking about the hotel room, laughing at how disgusting the pool looked with moving mounds of dirt on the floor of the pool. We were having a great time.

I got up to get a drink in the room, we had the sliding glass door closed because we were in a nonsmoking room. I reached for the handle and gave a pull and thought to myself, 'something is not right here'. I tried again, it still did not open, I was puzzled because the latch to lock the door is on the inside and was obviously unlocked as we were outside.

After a third time without any luck of opening the door, I turned to my friend and said "Guess what, you are sleeping on the balcony tonight" he turned to look at me and mumbled out a "what?" to which I replied, "you are locked out of your room, you better go tell the front desk."

He did not believe me and had to try to open the door himself, I looked over the balcony to the floor below and saw that the concrete walkway was too far out to jump to and right below us the "garden" was filled with lava rocks. Both my friend and I were barefoot, so jumping was not a good idea. I told my friend "dude, you are in the military, why don't you monkey yourself on down and go get help". He replied "Hey, I'm Navy not Marines!"

We came to the conclusion that since we were siting on the balcony to relax and smoke cigar, we would continue to do so until we finally saw someone we could ask for help. After about 30 minutes an employee exited the lobby, after laughing at us being locked out, she retrieved a new key to help us out. This employee was quite the light bulb when she shared her wisdom told us "Next time you go outside, don't lock the door behind you". I looked at her and said "This prank would have been funnier had I remembered I can only walk one direction through walls". She stood there puzzled, then left and we walked back outside making sure we did not close the door completely this time.

One might think the story ends there, but the next morning we went down to get our free complimentary breakfast provided by the hotel, which was real potatoes and eggs, we had company because the cook would bring her entire family over for breakfast every morning we were there.

When we headed back upstairs to the room, I put the plastic credit card key in the slot and the door did not budge. I tried again, but still no go. I then told my friend "Dude, you locked yourself out again!" After a bit of joking we headed downstairs to get a new key, turns out the employee that unlocked the glass door for us did not get just another key assigned to our room, but a new one and reprogrammed the door lock.

Needless to say, the next few nights we smoked cigars on the balcony, we never did close that glass door. We also never needed to get new keys.

That is my most memorable cigar smoking experience.

08-29-2009, 01:29 PM	#45
Sr Mike As Is Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: EBFE Posts: 657 Trading: (6)	Re: Your memorable "Cigar Smoking Experiences" Every S.H.I.T. herf is a memorable experience, but I will share one that was not during that herf. A few years back, a buddy of mine and I went on a road trip to Arizona. Finally arriving at the hotel around 8:30 pm. The hotel we were at was in shambles, they called it construction, the door for the bathroom had been kicked in, and the faucet in the bathroom was loose from the sink. The place was pretty ratty. We were on the second floor. As we were sitting on the balcony smoking Mombacho Thermonuclears (wonderful cigars BTW) we were having a great time BSing about everything in life, joking about the hotel room, laughing at how disgusting the pool looked with moving mounds of dirt on the floor of the pool. We were having a great time. I got up to get a drink in the room, we had the sliding glass door closed because we were in a nonsmoking room. I reached for the handle and gave a pull and thought to myself, 'something is not right here'. I tried again, it still did not open, I was puzzled because the latch to lock the door is on the inside and was obviously unlocked as we were outside. After a third time without any luck of opening the door, I turned to my friend and said "Guess what, you are sleeping on the balcony tonight" he turned to look at me and mumbled out a "what?" to which I replied, "you are locked out of your room, you better go tell the front desk." He did not believe me and had to try to open the door himself, I looked over the balcony to the floor below and saw that the concrete walkway was too far out to jump to and right below us the "garden" was filled with lava rocks. Both my friend and I were barefoot, so jumping was not a good idea. I told my friend "dude, you are in the military, why don't you monkey yourself on down and go get help". He replied "Hey, I'm Navy not Marines!" We came to the conclusion that since we were siting on the balcony to relax and smoke cigar, we would continue to do so until we finally saw someone we could ask for help. After about 30 minutes an employee exited the lobby, after laughing at us being locked out, she retrieved a new key to help us out. This employee was quite the light bulb when she shared her wisdom told us "Next time you go outside, don't lock the door behind you". I looked at her and said "This prank would have been funnier had I remembered I can only walk one direction through walls". She stood there puzzled, then left and we walked back outside making sure we did not close the door completely this time. One might think the story ends there, but the next morning we went down to get our free complimentary breakfast provided by the hotel, which was real potatoes and eggs, we had company because the cook would bring her entire family over for breakfast every morning we were there. When we headed back upstairs to the room, I put the plastic credit card key in the slot and the door did not budge. I tried again, but still no go. I then told my friend "Dude, you locked yourself out again!" After a bit of joking we headed downstairs to get a new key, turns out the employee that unlocked the glass door for us did not get just another key assigned to our room, but a new one and reprogrammed the door lock. Needless to say, the next few nights we smoked cigars on the balcony, we never did close that glass door. We also never needed to get new keys. That is my most memorable cigar smoking experience.