Is it real?

Do you think I'm out in a bar smoking a slim cigar? Sure looks like it doesn't it? Perception vs. reality. This happened to be the theme for the Baptist communications conference that I, along with two other colleagues, was attending out in Arizona. We went to this fake western town for some routin' tootin' cowboy fun. While our fellow conferencers were riding the mechanical bull, listening to tales of the Lone Ranger, and watching a western shootout, we were at the steak house enjoying some tasty red meat and salmon. I had the red meat and it was good! BTW, the Lone Ranger show didn't live up to our expectations, the mechanical bull had shut down by the time we were finished with dinner, and the shootout was fairly entertaining. Back to my dinner tale, for desert we decided to split a piece of decadent chocolate cake. It came with two rolled "cigars" of chocolate--one white, one dark. I took the dark. I couldn't help myself, it looked so much like a cigar and being as we were there for a Baptist conference, I had to risk it! Call me a rebel, but that stick of chocolate needed to be smoked!