Thursday, May 21, 2009

Let's Discuss Wine

Quite a few of you out there in cyberspace, know a lot more about wine than I do. But I purposely misspelled it to draw you in. I thought I would touch on the subject of "whining". We all do it to some extent. Some do it more than others, while a handful of us whine incessantly. Children are a good example of "whining". It's too hot, or it's to cold, or it's too long, or it's not long enough. "Do we have to leave now?", is one of my favorite "whines", because we're such horrible parents, we're cutting their fun short, even though everyone else is gone, and we're the last ones remaining! Conversely, when they're along with my wife and I, doing something we wanted to do, within 60 seconds they are asking "When are we going to leave. We've been here forever?". My #1, all time favorite whine is, "There's nothing to eat around here!". This unthankful cry for food usually comes after opening the refrigerator, and staring blankly at a wall of food for 5 minutes, that's ready to avalanche its way onto the kitchen floor. Then, they may walk to the pantry (we actually have 2 pantries containing invisible food), and rummage thru, moving box after box of cereal, that has been opened either for one initial bowl, or the prize contained inside, throwing aside half eaten bags of corn chips, boxes of granola bars, cans of soup, and every ingredient to make a batch of cookies (not to mention the cookies themselves), before their pitiful cry for sustenance. I think it's rather funny than irritating, that my children can't see the food we have, only the food we don't have. Apparently, if the grocery store has it, we should have it. I know when they're older, and living on their own, making their own money and decisions, all their stresses about food, the constant foraging, the never ending dissatisfaction of lack of variety, will all be a thing of the past..... until they have kids of their own:) Enough about "whine", let's talk it over with "wine".

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