Christopher “From The Office “And The Expensive French Wine

 

Hello – If you’ve been following the blog (no chance I know!) you will have an indication of Christopher, he happens to me by boss right now.

Last Christmas our division happened to receive an expensive hamper, filled with expensive booze and the usual chocks and cheese. Now Chris happened to be in the other division so he technically did not qualify for the goodies.

Now we all knew Chris had a thing for bottles, he’s been on a collecting spree for as long as I can remember. Matter of fact the first day he drove his vehicle (I happened to be a navigator again), both of us were shivering half way through ..he couldn’t drive for shit, let alone driving we had a time stopping the car at color lights..So I was very much surprised when I thought the goal was to get home w/out smashing the rearview mirror too may times, when the man pulls over (not literally we were pretty much still on the road) parks and asks me to pick up some bottles that a colleague had brought from a U.S trip!

Now that I have clarified how much these mean to the man, Let's go back to the story behind the bottles.We decided to switch the labels of an expensive looking French wine with a bottle of Vinegar cork and all.(Somebody ought to have told me the man was gonna be my boss someday!!)Removing the label was easy, finding a cork was not! After spending like most of the lunch break we managed to get that right..Now the easy part, walking up to Christopher I casually mentioned we had a Black and an expensive wine, I said I am taking the Black and no one else wanted wine.You guessed it, the man’s eyes lit up and he was already thinking of Christmas.

Off he went the day before we closed for X-mas with the wine bottle tucked in the lap top bag. What nice friends I am sure he was thinking.We could not wait, so we were disappointed when he did not turn up for work on the 28^th when we re-opened so we could hear how nice the wine was! Nor did he turn up on the 29^th or 30^th.The man was missing, finally turning up on the 1^st.

It seems that he was not sick, but the nephews were. Apparently the Chris clan give the lil boys spoonfuls of wine at X-mas!! They’d been purging for days and he wanted to know whether the wine was bad!!

Wasn’t me, wasn’t me.

To make up and most importantly now that he is my boss now, I did give the boss a nice bottle of Chivas a few months ago. What with the reviews coming up and all it was too much of a risk. Lol was kidding – No I got it free and besides I owed the man the bottle - to be fair.