Beer

[FearlessF]

I enjoy a decent cigar from time to time.  Usually on the back nine.

I'd like to try a pipe, but not really sure where to get started.  I'm sure I could figure something out to start, but I'm lazy.

[CharleyHorse46]

Hadn't smoked a cigar since my father died of lung cancer in 2006 but I used to be a Swisher Sweet Perfecto man.  You can spend more for a cigar but you can't find a finer one.  It's perfecto.  

I was always a beer man until I began traveling.  In El Paso you have to drink margaritas because they're so cheap and ubiquitous they practically pay you to drink them.  And that's when I noticed le diffe'rence!

I started experimenting with different mixtures using different bottles from different shelves and Herradura Silver just touched the right chord within me.   It's about $38 to $45 per 750 ml depending upon where I buy it but it's worth every nickel regardless.

Everybody's got different tastes.  Look up best tequilas and best tequilas under $50 and you'll pull up dozens of lists with very few tequilas common among all the lists.

Someday when I'm dissatisfied with my life and looking for something new I can start sampling others.  Maybe I'll find one I like just as well for $28 or even $18.  But for now, why look.  I'm happy with what I've found.

[utee94]

No need to be defensive about your choice in pretentious tequilas.  I was merely offering better-tasting options that, as a bonus, are also less expensive.

But far be it from me to attempt to change the opinion of a crotchety old man who is set in his ways.

[CharleyHorse46]

WTH you whinin’ ‘bout, Jr?  I didn’t even realize you had contributed to this thread.  Way to get my attention.  I’ll have to go back & see what you said.

[utee94]

Now you think you can gaslight me?

Nice try oldtimer.

[CharleyHorse46]

The flea on the dog always believes its all about him.

[utee94]

Riiiiigggghhhhhttttt....

So, anyway, it's time to move on from the pumpkin beers and get into the dark winter ales.  It was something like 45 degrees this morning at my house.  Definitely winter weather!

[FearlessF]

I'm still waiting for cool fall weather

60 degrees on the golf course here for Halloween

[CharleyHorse46]

I'll have to try some Cazadores.  I might like it.  Then again I might not.  Tastes differ.  I know a guy who loves Natty Light.  None of my friends have wives I would've married.  I know people who drive vehicles I wouldn't drive, live in houses I wouldn't live in, work at jobs I wouldn't want and vote for candidates I wouldn't vote for.  Tastes can vary greatly.  But for less than $30 it's worth trying.  Thank you for the recommendation, Junior.

[utee94]

Well that's might noble of you, my old friend.

If you hate it, I'll blame Fearless for the recommendation.

[BrownCounty]

I'll have to try some Cazadores.  I might like it.  Then again I might not.  Tastes differ.  I know a guy who loves Natty Light.  None of my friends have wives I would've married.  I know people who drive vehicles I wouldn't drive, live in houses I wouldn't live in, work at jobs I wouldn't want and vote for candidates I wouldn't vote for.  Tastes can vary greatly.  But for less than $30 it's worth trying.  Thank you for the recommendation, Junior.

I would try a few of my friend's wives for $30.

[FearlessF]

As would I

I'm not a wealthy person, but I can come up with $30 for the right reason

[CousinFreddie]

None of my friends have wives I would've married. 

Yep, same here when it comes to my own friends and their wives.  But, when it comes to a few of my wife's friends, that's a different story, particularly those from Argentina.  As I'd like to live into old age, those thoughts have always just stayed with me entirely, but ... damn.

[CharleyHorse46]

When I was 30 or so, my friends all had interesting and attractive wives and my wife had interesting and attractive friends.

Now that I'm over 50, my friends' wives are no longer interesting and attractive and my wife's friends are no longer interesting and attractive.

I'm not an age-a-phobe.   I find a lot of older women to be quite beautiful as people and in appearance.  Just not my wife's friends or my friends' wives.

Lots of people (men and women) tend to develop ugly qualities as they get older.  They eat too much of the wrong foods, they don't exercise and they don't care.  They wear clothes that are comfortable instead of stylish so they look like an unmade bed.  (Often and unmade kings size bed).  As youthful hopefulness gives way to boring routines, they become louder and more negative.  Oftentimes even critical of innocuous things in their periphery that shouldn't even bother them.  You can see the "get off my lawn" attitude developing.

The more I see those qualities in my peers, the more I want to fight them.  Maybe it's vanity.  Maybe I don't want to grow old.  

I like to believe it's actually because I want to be a friendly likable person when I get old instead of the kind of person kids and grandkids hate to visit and neighborhood kids love to egg.