just john

I stole that from Ziggy, sometime in the early 80's.

I continue to have an unbalance of negative quark rotation (DS9 in the 90's) this week. First the egg thing and now problems with German wine. I continually harass the Germans about their wine and heap praise on the beer becase they are frankly not the world leaders in wine-making. Maybe wine production, but not wine-making.Nevertheless, I got a request to bring a lighter red to a Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow and with a German couple attending, decided to try my luck again with the wine. My local grocery has a corner section with nice wood shelves and tasteful decor set apart from the other wines which I always thought were the more expensive brands. Finally looking at and reading the sign I see that it is the "wine friend" section where someone has presumably picked outthe good-tasting ones for me. I found a spatburgunder that looked promising and decided to go with two bottles. The spatburgunder is the German answer to a pinot noir or a red zinfandel. They also have a corresponding grauburgunder for the white. Anyway, I pull the first bottle out from the 6 foot high wooden box shelf and the rest proceed to follow as they fear being left behind. Wine bottles do not bounce.

After only two or three crashes, it's hard to say because I was busy holding wine bottles up, I hear a frantic stock guy behing me calling for back up on his radio, "send clean up to wine, fast" and he grabs a foot stool to get the rest of the jumbled pile off me. He kept his cool an asked me if I needed a bag. I said "No, but one more bottle please." I thanked him and then ran like hell to get out of the store.