Flirting with the Wine Store Guy
Never judge a book by it’s cover
James and I have cut way back lately on how much alcohol we drink. We’d gotten into a bit of a pandemic rut for a while there and finally decided it was time to be more responsible with our health. One of the ways that we are doing that is we started drinking de-alcoholized wine during the week. It doesn’t taste quite as good as the real stuff, but you do still get to have something wine-like in a nice glass, and so it checks a lot of the boxes that we’d gotten into by habit. So far it’s worked out really well for us, but our local grocery store doesn’t always have it on hand, so the other day James, his brother, and I decided to head to a big box wine store to pick up a case.
As we were looking for a parking spot we noticed a guy with the wine store logo on his shirt heading into the building. He really stood out because he had a ZZ Top beard and a head that was shaved on the sides but with long hair pulled into a ponytail in the back. It was a look that really stood out, and not in an overtly appealing way. James said something like, “Wow, that’s quite a look he’s got going on,” as we pulled into a parking spot.
Once inside we wandered around for a while and finally asked someone where the alcohol-free wine was. He pointed us in the right general direction, but we just weren’t…
