I am not afraid to stand up and admit that I like cheap wine. I will even go so far as to say that I prefer cheap wine over the nice stuff. And cheap wine is the only wine that I will keep in my house, as I do not own a corkscrew.
I never ever ever feel ashamed of my wine preference except when I am actually at the grocery store buying it, as I was last night around 10pm. It was just routine grocery shopping, and I picked up a couple of bottles of Boones to fill in the gaps in my wine rack. But as I stood looking at the 8 million people in line ahead of me (the scary social demographic that inhabit the Wal-Mart ghetto after hours), I noticed that they were all purchasing cheap alcohol too. I felt like I needed to explain to the cashier and the rest of the store that I was different--I was not going to go home and immediately consume these 3 bottles of hooched koolaid in a row and then sleep till noon the next day. My cheap liquor was going to be used for respectable purposes.
Posted by Micah Lewis at February 14, 2003 03:12 PM