What was your "cig call?"

[Wakefulpanda]

Remember the fumbling gas station attendants? The trainees that would fumble through the decorative wall of cigarettes while giving you a look of confusion and anger while an impatient line formed behind you. Mine was always "Camel filters in a box, nope to the left, nope no...the goldish pack, yup those" I must have said those words thousands of times. I've heard hundreds of calls from the eager and fiending mouths of patrons. What was yours?

 

[Dzaw]

I used to have to always correct them...

A pack of camel wides... No, these are lights, I asked for Wides - its the short fat pack just under these.

 

[Recycled Roadkill]

2 packs of Marlboro gold 100's in the box please. That request was devised, perfected and repeated more time than I'll ever remember.

Wow, sometimes I even got exactly what I requested.

 

[HybridTea]

"Two packs of Newport 100's box. No, not the short ones, the 100's. The long ones, to the right. In the box, not the softpack." And in recent years, "the green ones, not the red ones. Yep. Thanks."

I used to like the cigarette store because they were a little bit cheaper but they didn't judge - they made their money off addicts like me. Grocery stores used to have cartons in a rack where you could just grab one and put it your cart with your groceries, but then they went to locking them up so you had to ask at checkout, and yes, everyone waited while the kid went and got the key, and then tried to find the ones you asked for. The looks you got from all concerned - they might as well have given you a bell to ring while waiting. "Unclean! Unclean!"

 

[Cookster]

Carton of Salem Slim Lights 100's, please (Costco)

 

[olderthandirt]

1lb Virginia Gold, a box of Bugler papers and 3 bags of filters.

I was lucky though, the folks I went to always knew where the stuff was (-:

 

[therussellv]

Decade menthol 100 dark green

Last stinkie Oct. 15, 2013

 

[fogging_katrider]

Not available at most of the usual cig places, so I had to visit the tobacco outlet stores instead...

"1 can of midnight special or american spirit tobacco and a box of king size tubes !"

Arrrgh, I had to roll my own because the FSC cigarettes crap was literally killing me.

 

[fogging_katrider]

1lb Virginia Gold, a box of Bugler papers and 3 bags of filters.

I was lucky though, the folks I went to always knew where the stuff was (-:

Thats another great advantage of vaping instead of smoking outside of the obvious health benefits
I dont miss that ritual pita of sitting down making a batch of cigarerttes, making a mess with tobacco spillage etc.

Now it's more of a fun hobby now making diy'ing juices, coil builds etc...
I love this stuff, but the wife still complains about all the "stuff" on the coffee tables heh heh

 

[Rickajho]

THE BLUE ONES! THE BLUE ONES! Sigh... Language barriers in a Kwikee Mart can be such a problem. Pall Mall lights - how hard could it be?

 

[fernicus]

well when i was still buying commercial cigs, it was "camel menthol lights....er... silvers." ugh stupid name changes made me feel dumb.

but after this it was "1lb Norwegian, 1/8lb perique, 1/4 vanilla rum special blend and a box of king size tubes please." i used to love using my little cig making machine.

 

[Hill]

Marlboro lights 100s in the box. I guess they were called golds before I quit but I stilled called them lights cashier knew what I meant.

 

[Rossum]

I loved my local Wawa. I had them trained. They'd ask me if I needed smokes. If I said yes, they'd hand me a carton of Camel Turkish Silvers.

 

[440BB]

"Short Green Pall Malls" was pretty successful. If I pointed directly at them it helped, but it was never a sure thing.

 

[CommaHolly]

"Two packs of Newport 100's box. No, not the short ones, the 100's. The long ones, to the right. In the box, not the softpack." And in recent years, "the green ones, not the red ones. Yep. Thanks."

are we separated at birth or something? My exact words,,,,,,,,

 

[deanthemachine]

well when i was still buying commercial cigs, it was "camel menthol lights....er... silvers." ugh stupid name changes made me feel dumb.

but after this it was "1lb Norwegian, 1/8lb perique, 1/4 vanilla rum special blend and a box of king size tubes please." i used to love using my little cig making machine.

+ 1 for the name changes.

My fav was "Marlboro Lights in a box." Then they became Marlboro Golds thanks to the government looking out for us and informing us that Lights were not healthy. I kept saying lights. Most knew what I was talking about, but some of the younger ones just starting out their convenience careers would look at me funny.

 

[meanckz]

Marlboro Special Lights, the Gold ones, 100s (cuz they was less expensive) ... before that Marlboro Ultra Light 100s
meow

 

[certus11]

Camel 99 regular plz,

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[Eranda13]

"Marlboro ultra Lights in a box, the silver one"

But... for the last couple years I smoked I either bought them from Russia online or Honduras through work travel or co-workers ($15 a carton!!), or I rolled my own. Bought 6 bags of tobacco and six boxes of tubes at one time.

 

[BlueThunder]

I always went to the same Tobacco shop, so asking for a pack of Camel Wides usually got me what I wanted.