Today I went to Disneyland by myself. I was going to take today off and go tomorrow, but I read that MLK Day is coming up and it will be getting busy, so I figured I’d go sooner rather than later. It was fun, and I will write more about it tomorrow. Right now I am just writing to share a funny thing that just happened to me.
I decided I wanted to have a drink, so I went over to the 7-11 two doors down and bought a bottle of wine. I checked to make sure it had the twist-off top. I paid for it and brought it back to the room. After peeling back the outer wrapping, I discovered…it was not a twist-off top after all, but a regular cork, buried in the bottle! Remember, I’m on vacation…of course I have corkscrews at home but nothing here. I tried feebly poking at it a little bit but of course the cork didn’t budge. My wife suggested I take it down to the restaurant in the lobby, which has a poorly-stocked bar but was sure to at least have a corkscrew. So I took off my pajamas, got dressed again, and brought down the bottle; there was a corkscrew right there on the bar but I didn’t want to use it without permission. The host asked from halfway across the room if he could help me, and I beckoned him over. “I bought this at the store, and I thought it had a twist-off top, but it doesn’t! Can I borrow your corkscrew?” He handed it to me, and I proceeded to fumble with it…because I don’t actually know how to use one! He saw the trouble I was having and kindly did it for me, even removing the cork from the screw and giving it back to me.
So I now have 1.5L of 18 proof wine from some local winery…hey, I said I bought it at 7-11, right? It was only $7.50! Now I can actually enjoy it, because it’s OPEN. Thank goodness.
by Fellow Eskimo
16 Jan 2008 at 00:52
If you planned on drinking it all that night, you can just push in the cork with a pen or butter knife. It goes in the bottle, can still pour it…but cant reseal.
by Cricket
18 Jan 2008 at 20:11
same thing happened to us last weekend! We bought a bottle of wine that we thought for sure was a screw off top, but ended up having a cork. Not being able to find my corkscrew, I had to call the little ole neighbor lady next door and borrow hers!
by funny stories
01 Apr 2009 at 08:03
oh you are lucky……enjoy…
Thanks for sharing such beautiful incident……..
by michael
26 Apr 2009 at 18:09
Yep been here myself, I have tried getting the cork out with a knife but i ended up with loads of cork in the wine, I thought it would just be easy to get out but it ain’t.
by michael
26 Apr 2009 at 18:12
yep been here myself, I tried getting the cork out with a knife but ended up getting so much cork in the wine bottle its pointless trying. I thought the cork would eventually clear but it doesn’t completely wasted that bottle
by Wine Glass Holder Matt
24 Oct 2009 at 11:12
Thanks for sharing! Better bring your corkscrew all the time!
That is something I learned from your story. 