I was this -><- close to doing a SteveH

Terrible night's kip last night, a whole day of deep joy attempting to
beat a Tuxedo system into submission, and a taxi ride across Bangalore.

I figured I'd earned a bottle of decent wine. So I ordered one. Then Mr
Brain fluttered into life for a split second and pointed out that the
sommelier taking off *that* fast with a grin *that* wide might not be A
Good Sign.

A swift recalculation later and I *just* caught him before the foil
came off the bottle.

<phew>

 

Lucky bastard ;-)

Tell us how much you nearly spent, then? - does it beat mine?

 

They do that, don't that.... the bastards.

Lucky! Rick (the American guy who I was out with) wasn't so quick at
the hotel bar.. 2 double jamesons, no ice... Thank you sir, that'll
be $40 US.

"What the... why didn't you tell me that?"

 

**** me. I think £2.60 down my local is over the top.

 

Nigel Eaton says...

For a minute I thought you might nearly have bought some god-awful pile
of Italian shite. Was the wine Italian?

 

Exactly.

The really daft thing is he had a bottle of duty free upstairs.

 

There's nothing wrong with (most) Italian wine. Certainly, at the
more, eh, price-sensitive end of the market, it's better than French.

 

In

it is... you wanna be up norf you do...

 

It's ok. That's for a double with mixer. Most places round here are
around 4.50 for that but the new Whetherspoons is nice and cheap.

 

I have an urge for a glass or so of Chianti Classico now.

 

<Waves bottle of Orvieto Classico>

Will this do? I know it's not red but its drinkable..

Phil

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not really

and there in lies the problem.

On a very hot summer's day maybe.

 

It would have done. Comfortably, I think. I *thought* it was 25 quid,
or thereabouts. I was out by a factor of ten, of course...