Wine Store on New Year's Eve

Crash!  I turned around from my position in line to see the flow of red wine running across the floor of the liquor store and the scattered broken pieces of glass puncturing its smooth journey across the room.  A customer a couple people behind me in line at the liquor store had dropped his bottle of wine on the floor.  It made me wonder how many times bottles are broken in liquor stores.  I never really thought about it before, but now I really wonder.  It definitely seems like it is one of the biggest hazards of running a wine store.  From one of the most clumsy people, I won't say that I have never done it (for fear of jinxing myself more than anything), but I will say I never thought it before.  This is coming from the person who a couple years ago was enjoying a very romantic dinner with my then boyfriend and now husband at The Ocean Club in Scottsdale, Arizona and who at the end of the meal made a very ostentatious gesture with her hand and knocked the wine glasses on the floor smashing them to pieces.  It is also coming from the girl who just the other month was taking a jar of tomato sauce out of the fridge and had it "slip" from her hand and splatter all other the floor into a million pieces.  Months later, we are still finding glass shards in the kitchen.  So needless to say, I should be one to see a store full of glass items and expect that things would break there all the time.  However, it never crossed my mind until this New Year's Eve.

This New Year's Eve my husband and I stayed in, had pizza and buffalo wings and enjoyed our new house.  It was perfect.  My husband ordered the wings from Anchor Bar in Buffalo which if you haven't done it is very cool.  They ship them overnight to be delivered around 11AM the next day.  Although I am not a fan of buffalo wings (They are too messy for my taste.  I don't like when my hands get messy while eating.  It's a silly thing of mine.  I'm the same way about crabs, too messy to enjoy.  I don't mind my mouth getting messy.  It's my hands that bother me), my husband enjoys them, and he especially likes getting them from Buffalo.

So we went to the wine store that day to pick up beer and wine for out at home celebration.  I have to admit, I was shocked by how crowded the liquor store was at 5PM on New Year Eve's.  I would have thought that people would have either already had their alcohol for the night or would have been going out to dinner and not needed it, but I guess there are a lot of BYOBs in our neighborhood and people must get what they need at the last minute.  I mean the store was mobbed.  The check out line went all the way from the front of the store to the back.  It was impressive.

I'm adding it though to my list of places to avoid: grocery stores on the eve of the eve of a major holiday and liquor stores on New Year's Eve.  Next year, I will be more prepared.  Let's just see though how long I keep that resolution!