So for Christmas last year, I got my wife a year long \”wine of the month\” membership at Barriques. It\’s actually great – they do a really good job picking out wines, although the downside is that you have to go to the store and pick them up once a month.
I was working late tonight, and remembered that I needed to pick up the wine before I came home. I went straight from work to Barriques, and it looked like they were closing. I went in and asked if I could just pick up my wine, even though the register was closed. The girl there said that was fine, then corrected herself.
\”It\’s after 9:00 – I can\’t let you walk out of here with it.\”
I looked at my watch and noticed it was 9:03. And I couldn\’t leave with a bottle of wine I purchased in December of 2006.
So thank you, state law, for saving me from the convenience of picking up my wine. We are all much safer now that I have to make an extra trip out to Barriques to get it. Lord knows the damage I could do with that corked bottle in the back seat of my car on the way home.
March 20, 2007 at 2:38 am
But if you would have drank that bottle on-site, you could have waited until 1:59 am the next morning (or started drinking at 6 am instead of 8 am).
Fragging’ bass-ackward.
March 20, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Send your Thank-You notes to Carol Roessler, Mother of All Wisconsinites, c/o State Capitol, Madistan, WI.
Carol’s Motherhood Knows No Bounds.
(That’s the title of her personal hymn.)