So .... we went to the liquor store and a political rally broke out.

[Stinky The Clown]

We were doing some last minute Christmas shopping. On the way home we stopped by Ballbusters to return some videos. Next to them is the liquor store where we get most of our wine. They're doing a wine tasting. Actually, they're doing two of them. One for ordinary wines and one for some really high end stuff. We stop at the cheap shit first. We sample. This nice woman, about our age, comes in. She starts tasting, too. "I just came in for some beer" she says. Her husband joins her. We sip the various $10 wines and discuss the merits of Old Rasputin Imperial Stout, which, it turns out, is his favorite brew and mine.



We finish with the cheap wines and follow the store owner to the second wine tasting, way in the back. This one has wines ranging up to $100 a bottle. We start with the (relative) low end of this stuff and work up.

One of the wines is a nice Veuve Cliquot.



Which brought us to talking abut reasons to celebrate. I mention to Sparkly that it would be good for our planned day on January 20.

Which elicits a ":snap: We should do that too" from the lady who was now our wine drinking partner. Her husband, also our new wine drinking buddy, agrees.

The guy pouring the wine also agrees.

Pretty soon we learn he works for the DoD. He and all his coworkers are **thrilled** that a Democart won and most are quite happy with Obama.

She thinks Bush is a moron.

He thinks Bush screwed us up with his misdirection from Afghanistan t o Iraq.

The wine sales guy agrees.

Back to us, saying how much we think Bush is a national embarrassment.

More casual tasters sipped a glass or two and nodded approvingly or offered a comment.

This goes on for nearly an hour.

They bought the high end cabernet we had all tried and a very nice Zinfandel we suggested to them. We bought the bubbly and a really nice Claret we'd had at a party last week.



We all shook hands and parted, happy, loopy, and feeling good about being Democrats.

It always amazes me how quickly people want to say they voted Democrat, yet, at the height of Moron's power after the coup, no one wanted to admit to being a Democart.

Well, many people didn't. I was never shy. But you know what I mean.

[TomInTib]

1. Coppola makes a pretty decent Claret.

I'm not even gonna tell you what we can buy that for, out here in Wine Country.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Husb2Sparkly...

What a great story!

Nice wine, great conversation, and wow!

Good for you...

:hug:

[DesertFlower]

3. nice post and pics.

i got into a not so nice conversation at the yogurt store the other day. hubby and i were talking with the owner about the economy. i don't remember how it happened but the guy says "i don't understand why the guy threw his shoes at bush. our troops are there risking their lives to protect these people". i i answered. "we invaded the man's country, killed some of his relatives, tore apart his country". the man mentioned that he knew people who were serving in the military. i told him that i do too and that i fully support our troops.

some people just don't get it.

[47of74]

5. Coffee shop I frequent once had two righties in it...

Which cleared the joint out in about 1/2 hour, what with them going on about how the Republican party was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[DesertFlower]

6. i'm in arizona.

mostly republicans here.

[liberalmuse]

4. What a lovely story!

And you even had pics! I have a friend of a friend who works at the DoD. They are amazingly liberal there. They could not stand Rumsfeld, or Bush. And many are gays who had to leave the military and come back to the DoD to work as civilians because of that fact. The person I'm talking about is fluent in Arabic, a victim of the gay purge back in 2003, but who has very sympathetic towards the Iraqis. I figure someone who has been on a ship listening in on intelligence knows WTF they are talking about.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. The wine sales guy agrees.

Best line in the story! :rofl:

Sold all some happy times wine, all in good company, too!


Nice to run into Dems and enjoy like that!
What fun! :hi: