The Mayor Revisited

Tobacco x Two - Aug 2008

It has been two years since we last checked in on it and Lloyd's stash is still going strong. 

Perhaps 'going strong' is an understatement, on could say that the illicit stash of tobacco products our 80+ year old neighbor and unofficial 'mayor of the block,' Lloyd hides from his wife Vera in my parents grill has been fruitful and multiplied.  

Seriously, the sight that greets the eyes when one lifts the cover of my family's red webber grill is simply stunning: What had been a sole tin of 'Grizzly Wintergreen' is now the tag team of Red and Marlboro Men - in wintergreen and classic flavors respectively. 

Over the past couple years as I've visited my folks back in the 'sha, I've grown used to the now-familiar site of Lloyd's powder-blue fisherman's cap scurrying past the kitchen window followed by the tell-tale sound of the grill cover being lifted. It is oddly comforting, and yet still has a touch of creepy about it.

The whole thing leads me to wonder a couple things . . .

1) Is Wintergreen Snuff [whether it be Grizzly or Redman] an easy gateway 'drug'?

[The evidence here points to a big-old 'Yes']

2) Is there a product less P.C. out there than Redman Moist Snuff?

[I certainly hope not]