so without mentioning any names, we have a customer come into the shop. with her she carries a gift for a friend she is waiting for. however, she puts the gift away from the eye, and granted, she didn't think it was such a big deal. right... is what i'm imagining! well her girlfriend comes in and says hi to everyone, good times all is well in love and war, and then boom! she drops the bomb! out comes the gift that she has been waiting all night to present to her friend. so she waits until everyone is busy! ahahahah! well, she has the girl open up the gift, i come from behind and notice a wine bottle. ok! great! i ask v a question, and then notice the bag. obviously, it's not our logo, but a woman had asked me earlier the name of this particular wine retailer. and, i drew a blank at the time. but when i noticed this logo, i remembered...so i go to the front of the bar and tell v, "remember that lady came in asking about that 'other' retailer, yah! it's _ _ _ !". "oh yah!" v said. well, then this girl proceeds to make excuses for her bringing in this wine, thinking it's our competitor. i told her "no. no problem, it's not a competitor".
what was irritating though, was, she kept on and on, on how sorry she was that she brought this wine in, and then talks more about why she like this retailer so much. i say, "great, no worries, there's room for every one's niche." then she talks about how she personalized the label, and how it's her favorite whit wine....on and on, etc.etc." you get the picture. right. then she busted out with, "i don't want to be rude but...". at this point, i am just about done with her cute little petite frame. i'm thinking "...fine if you think your area wine retailer is better than us for 100 reasons. you don't want to be rude, your so sorry, you hope that...blahblah!"
if you were so worried about being rude, b!@&#, then why did you bring it in, in the first place.
if you would have just been cool about it, we would have been cool. but because you think it's rude, but then go on and on, about how you like this white...then guess what you just went from rude, to tacky in less than 1 minute" what i wanted to say was take your nice, little tacky idea back up the 15 n going toward vegas, since you think that area is so high and mighty...and find some other high flutin' friends to give your personalized label , bootleg wine too, because down here, we deal with "real" winemakers! as we call them, the real vintners, not the machine farmers! ok!
besides, if your bringing in someone else's wine and not sharing with everyone in the tasting room, that should be a $50 corking fee, just for sneaking it in and for taking food off my children's plate! {food for thought}
by the way y'all...we do
private label wines as well. click and see.
shfew! now that i am off my soap box...she says she come to our shop more often than the "other" retailer. frankly, i've never seen her there...but what ev! she thinks that's going to pull the wool over my eyes...tacky, tacky, tacky.
it just seem like the more she was apologizing, the more she was indirectly telling us that her area wine retailer is better than ours because of where she lives and mira loma, is well, not as close to her. also, that it would behoove others to try the "other" wine retailer as well...because it's up the way and she really likes it, oh and by the way! blah, blah, blah! {knife in my back, cutting deeper and deeper} pretentious! and not invited. we are way down to earth for politicn' bling! we are the real deal, mommasita!
i am not a wine snob, but at this point...i feel as if i just became a wine snob diva. {snap, snap, snap}
