Pet Peeve #4

Pet Peeve #4

Repeating yourself doesn't make your wine magically appear.

People come in every day looking for wines that we don't carry.  They had it at a restaurant in NY, their friend from Virginia gave it to them, they had it on a trip to Italy... you get the idea.  It's physically impossible to carry every wine in the world in our store.  If I don't have something, I'll look to see if I can special order it.  Half the time I can't because it's with a really small distributor who needs me to buy 20 cases or more instead of the 1 bottle I need or it's just not available in the great state of New Jersey.

One time, this woman came in with a receipt from another store.  She looked at her receipt and proceeded to ask me if I had a wine as she read off from it.  I said I didn't carry it, couldn't order it after I looked it up and then I laughed and said it sounded like a beer.  The wine had the name Corona in it and I thought it was funny.  She looked down at her receipt and again read the name out loud, but this time sloooower.  I again, told her that I did not carry this wine and I could not get it for her.  She said, "Are you sure?  You thought it was a beer."  I guess wine people are not allowed to have any sense of humor.

So, asking me again after I told you that I don't have and can't get you something, doesn't make the wine magically appear.

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