well, i am sad to report this BLAST...but, if i am going to be true to the chronicles, then reports about the good the bad and the ugly have to be mentioned. we've been open for quite some time now, and it's amazing how you get to know people and enjoy there company. you figure, if your going to open up a business, you have to be very, very passionate about what your selling because you literally have to be there 24/7. it literally is your baby.
i have a full time 9am-9pm job, and it is very demanding, but on occasion, i need a reality check, and so i go help my husband at the shop when we have major events!
on this particular day, we have some customers that we, from the beginning have enjoyed there company. you would think that, most people coming into the shop have your best interest in mind...but guess what? it is not always the case!
so a man and 2 women come into the shop. often. good times, laugh, joke, hahaha! but on this particular day, i'm imagining that, because i am not there that often, they might assume that my husband and i don't communicate.
ha-haah! my dear sherlock? we talk all the time! and at every given moment at the shop. we use allot of code because we need to communicate business while people are amongst us!
so anyway, this group decides that they want to drink a bottle of this special wine we got into the shop, there in our lounge.
well at the end of there night, as so many do...when they are done, they come up to the cash wrap to pay there bill. on the bill victor wrote, "bottle of Reggae Rhapsody for here".
well, i get busy sometimes and i just automatically do the due! so i pack up the wine and give it to them. well, the man takes the bottle and hands it off to the 1 woman on his right, real quick. i'm busy trying to get the receipts and there other stuff! when i look up, he's mumbling something to the other woman to his left that gave me her card to pay for the items.
well, i initially thought, i did something wrong, so i say, "did, i do something wrong?"
all 3 reply, "no!"
so as i am putting the receipt in the cash wrap, i look at the girl holding the bag and say, "was there something wrong?" she looks at me, picks up the bag of the wine they drank in the shop........
that i put in a bag mistakenly, and i say, "yup! that's the Reggae Rhapsody"...hahuk! 
i am not thinking...anything but...he's mumbling for a reason. right?
if someone is mumbling at you wouldn't you think....what?
who would think, "dishonest", no!....i'm thinking i did something wrong!!
She{woman 1 to the right} put the bag down hesitating, i look at the couple and say,
"ok. if there something i did, ______, you let me know ok."
the wife, says, "oh he's drunk, he doesn't know what he's saying, he's mumbling."
They leave the shop, and once they have hit the parking area, i look on the receipt, and i remember ..."bottle of Reggae Rhapsody for here."
ahahahahahah! i look out the door, and realize..."dude. did they just steal from us!?"
that is technically a stolen piece of property..right?
and, ...um are they just taking it with them?
One unpaid bottle for the road!
YUP! AND....it was all caught on camera!
I show victor the play back, and sure enough...! luckily i kept the receipt to show victor! and he could see the couple talking on video.
that they did have the bottle at the shop!and to his dismay & disappointment, indeed, one of his "most unlikely" to steal clients is indeed, and officially on the radar as an
offender!!!
it is so sad because, the bottle of wine was less than $20.
but little does the client realize, that, that $20, at this time in our life, just took food off of our table!
we have small kids and we're struggling to see the kids because we're so busy trying to make a life for their future! not to be rich....but for them to be set, and hopefully not struggling, etc.etc. no soapbox here!
and now this nice group that was once a great group, has just hit the "do not trust" list because, what they did made us realize that some people don't care for our lively hood.
what?yes...some don't!
and what they also don't realize is that everyday that i go out to work, i am sacrificing allot for that overhead. everything that is in that shop, momma goes to work to help maintain the house while dad tries to make a living selling wine and trying to make a business take off in a struggling economy. we are still trying to make life for the kids as "normal" as possible.
all this, over a $20 bottle of wine, they just became thieves in mommas mind because i am sacrificing so much for this family, trying to balance it all, and they just took food off my table!
it may look like there is allot of wine in that shop, but guess what? momma know what come in and what goes out!
why? because momma knows how many cookies she's put in the cookie jar.
BLAST OFF {wink} GOT CHA! no...CAUGHT CHA! {smile, wink}
{rabbit+boiling water=?}
then says to me, "since i've booked this event on a sunday night, i understand that it wouldn't be taking you {me} away from your kids all day, and you can spend the day with them while he {victor} comes over and enjoys the night with me and my friends, alone. are you ok with that? {looks at me} you wouldn't even have to pay for babysitting since it's on a weekend."
hmmm. i thought to myself, well, he's a grown man, "sure", i said, in the name of a business smile. if he's willing to take you up on the offer, that is entirely up to him. and that is the truth. luckily for me, we've been married long enough for him to know that, that entire scenario lifted "red flags" all over the place. we both laughed that night and said, "dude, is this an indecent proposal?"
but, these are the winestyle chronicles, and i am giving you the wins and the loses, and i do have to toss this one up to one of our "wins"!
