On the importance of paying attention to those noises our SO's make.

[richardf8]

So last night Morgan and I were getting ready to do Havdalah. I was finding the service in my Siddur when Morgan made some noises: "Blah Blah Merlot Blah Blah Havdalah tonight?"

I gathered that she was stating a preference for which wine we should use. I imagined she was talking about about a bottle of Galilean Merlot that we opened a week ago and had not finished. So I said "Yes."

The next thing I hear is Morgan coughing as she runs to the kitchen. She is pouring wine down the sink and the smell of Acetic Acid fills the room. The bottle she has in her hand is from a Baron Herzog Merlot (From Languedoc) that had a little bit left in it and had been sitting, uncorked, on the bookshelf for so long that I had come to regard it as part of the furniture. To say that it had become vinegar would be an understatement. This stuff smelled like the solvent one uses to make joints in Plexiglass.

Had I been paying attention, what I would have heard was "Hey, do you want to use this rancid Herzog Merlot for Havdalah tonight?" It is really a question that should have answered itself in the negative. It should not have survived conscious attention long enough to get asked. But it did, and I spaced it.

We did Havdalah with some Ocean-Spray Cran Grape and I spent the rest of the evening making her drink Bicarb to neutralize the acid.

So guys, when noises come out of your SO's mouth, PAY ATTENTION! Otherwise you never know WHAT's gonna happen.

Comments

[visservoldemort.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oh good lord...Paying attention helps sometimes, it seems! :-p

But why did she drink it if she knew it was rancid?

[morgan1.livejournal.com]

Umm... well, I was intending the word "rancid" to be a joke. I figured the wine would be a little stale-tasting from being open so long, but I didn't really think it had gone that bad. I have to admit though, it was definitely not one of my finer moments.

[lordrunningclam.livejournal.com]

For future reference, it's hard enough to keep an opened bottle of dry red from turning in the refrigerator overnight. I have a wine cork thing that attaches to a vacuum sealer for just such purposes. I wouldn't even bother checking an opened bottle that had been sitting on a shelf more than about a day.

Of course, you could always just finish any bottle you open....

[richardf8]

We have that same corking system. At some point, we had decided that there wasn't enough wine left in the bottle in question to be worth saving, so we moved its cork to a freshly opened bottle that WAS worth saving.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

LOL, tho I think that was a little dangerous. Well, I can't claim a better track record for listening to words. At least nowadays it's typically just the first part that I miss.