Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Simple minded

or simply brilliant??  Sometimes I amaze myself with my own brilliance. Of course it can be very slow in coming. I have been having a small glass of red wine after supper each evening, for medicinal purposes of course.  Dr. Oz recommended it.  This habit means that I have had to learn to get the corks out of wine bottles.  I'm doing pretty well at this. I've only had one cork crumble and I haven't broken a corkscrew in over a year. However I found myself struggling to get the cork back in the bottle after I had poured out my drink. It came out, it should go back in, right?  but it wouldn't fit, until one evening I turned the cork around.  The skinnier end, that had been at the top of the bottle slipped right in.  Brilliant, right?  I'm sure every other wine drinker in the world already knows this logical fact so why isn't it printed on the bottle, or on the cork - maybe a discrete little arrow and the message "put this end in first, dummy".

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