Monday, July 13, 2009

Beware of IED Beverages...


At Tempero do Brasil, a purse strap keenly hooked and shattered a bottle of 2007 Bernard & Griffin Fume Blanc. Afterwards, we lifted our water glasses to toast the smelly ooze under our table. "Viva Columbia Valley!"

Today, I went out to retrieve my "prized" cans of cola only find their shiny aluminum skins all puffy and distorted. "Hmmm... how odd," I thought to myself.

As I picked them up 3 of the 4 cans exploded spewing their warm cola contents 360 degrees... over me and the car's interior. The force blew my watch off and left me with a nice crotch-level wet spot. One of the cans got blown so hard that it landed in some bushes 15 feet away. Where was my body armor?!

After setting up a perimeter and searching for insurgents, I cleaned up the caramelized goo--2 hours in the lovely Texas sun. Lesson learned: Purse straps and warm car interiors have a detrimental effect on pressurized liquids!