Darn. My bad.

Oops.

I can't imagine it would actually taste very good anymore, anyway--not unless you want to drink vinegar.

This reminds me, I remember a friend used to work for a supermarket and when I asked her why she didn't have the job any more (this was 5-6 years ago) she said that it was because she was fired, due to accidentally knocking a whole aisle of alcohol on the floor.

oops.

Just like a good neighhhhh-bohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhr ..................


(I do hope that bottle was insured.)

I remember the guy who tripped on the stairs at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge and destroyed a pair of ancient Chinese vases. And wasn't there the guy who was showing off the Old Master he was about to sell and accidentally put his elbow through it? (ETA: ah, yes, Steve Wynn and his $140M Picasso.)

The wealthy customer asked to see the bottle.

See with your eyes, not your hands.

I assume he paid for the bottle?

ohhhh mannnn. I cringe just reading things like this. I lost a 300 dollar ring when I was 14 (who the hell gives expensive jewelry to a 14 year old) and I still feel SO GUILTY about it. Something like this would probably haunt me forever. I wouldn't be able to sleep. Such profound self loathing would result.

Oh, man. I hate it when I break my wine bottles, but I don't buy wine that costs more than $12. So I hate it because I'm losing precious alcohol, not because of the cost.

missesdash said:

ohhhh mannnn. I cringe just reading things like this. I lost a 300 dollar ring when I was 14 (who the hell gives expensive jewelry to a 14 year old) and I still feel SO GUILTY about it. Something like this would probably haunt me forever. I wouldn't be able to sleep. Such profound self loathing would result.

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When I was in third grade, a boy had a crush on me (used to chase me on the playground and that kind of silliness). He gave me a gold id bracelet with my name on it for Christmas that year. It was from Target, his mom took him to get it, and I didn't want it at.all. My parents made me take it and be really gracious, and then go get him a gift.

The next week, I lost it. I've never felt so guilty about something in my entire life. That was just a $20 piece of jewelry from Target...I think I'd wants to hide in a hole if I broke something worth 77K.

Alpha Echo said:

Oh, man. I hate it when I break my wine bottles, but I don't buy wine that costs more than $12. So I hate it because I'm losing precious alcohol, not because of the cost.

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I go to Trader Joe's and get Two Buck Chuck's! Damn!

This is why I buy cognac in a box.

I prefer the Spanish Brandies Cardinal Mendoza and a rare Domecq in a twisted black bottle to any French VS, VSOP, Napoleon, or antique cognac.

little_e said:

I can't imagine it would actually taste very good anymore, anyway--not unless you want to drink vinegar.

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Cognac has way too much alcohol to allow growth of the bacteria that convert alcohol to vinegar. If it was actually cognac when it was bottled, then it was a truly well aged cognac indeed.

My real question is why was the bottle not behind a case where all thumbs customers could not handle it?

I used to work in a wine store. This is my nightmare scenario.

I hope the wine merchant is able to recollect something for his loss, but I've always wondered how that really works. Is a customer, by law, required to honor a "you break it, you buy it" philosophy unconditionally? The few times I've broken anything in a store, the store owners never made me pay. Granted, I think both times I was a kid though... and the damage wasn't extreme.

I assume it also wasn't worth 50K?