a collection

I sit next to a fellow who smokes cigars. Every weekend he goes to the same shop to buy his fix. Every weekend I send him with $1 to buy me a new cigar box. My collection is becoming quite nice. The vendor is loving the game and saved my co-worker a black velvet box (top middle) this weekend for the collection. The boxes keep getting better. This weekend's catch also included three boxes, as opposed to the usual one. So the boxes came complete with a carrying bag. Pretty fun walking through the newsroom with this bag today. Quite a conversation starter. Perhaps I'll keep the bag for another rainy day, another conversation.