When Life Gives You White Wine… Maybe Just Drink It?
Alcohol, Holidays, Impossible Demands, Liquor Store, New Year’s Eve, Stupid, USA | Right
| December 31, 2025
To those who don’t know, New Year’s Eve is like Black Friday for liquor stores. We’ve been rammed all day, and unlike other holidays, ours only gets crazier the closer to midnight we get.
Customer: “You’re out of champagne.”
Me: “Yeah, we’ve been out since midday.”
Customer: “You’re not getting any more?”
Me: “Not in time for New Year’s.”
Customer: “Well, that’s ridiculous.”
Me: “Sorry, but it’s our busiest day of the year today.”
Customer: “Well, can’t you take some white wine and maybe shake it a little?”
Me: “…for what reason?”
Customer: “To give it bubbles! That’s what champagne is, isn’t it?”
A thousand winemakers from the northeast of France just cried into their champagne flutes.
