While The Lowe-Down is taking a few use-it-or-lose-it staycation days to lay down flooring, we thought readers might want to revisit the last time there was a presidential transition, which was January of 2001.

We hope it will dredge up all those unhappy memories you'd almost managed to repress.

Remember the cigar?

As if that weren't bad enough, it was a Havana, which is contraband in this country. I remember traveling to the Canadian border town of Windsor at the time. There was a large sign up in a tobacconist's window: "Yes! We have Monica's cigar!"