The Corkscrew Episode

Disclaimer:

All characters in this story are fictitious, any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Of late a handful of engineers at #188 have developed a significant detest for wine bottles, an incident that took place on a Saturday evening has the credit for it. To do justice I must again take you to the Saturday evening:

There was an unusual air of applause when one of the leads announced that it is wine instead of beer that he got for the evening. Little did he know that he had just brought in more than 300 bucks worth of sheer trouble. Anyways, the wine bottle was an instant hit; it passed hands till every member had a chance to examine the artifact thoroughly, few of them even opted for a second and a third chance.

I must maintain with great clarity that, other than suggesting a nail cutter to withdraw the wine cork, my part in the series of events described below is insignificantly small. Even before I could realize the stupidity of the suggestion some body was already at it!!! By the time he finished his experiment with the nail cutter, his assiduous efforts had an appreciable portion of the cork carved away from the top. The second one just managed to deepen the crevice.

Then some one suggested a knife.

Next in the order was a screw driver.

Before the screw driver arrived the engineer with a knife had done a neat job of not only disfiguring the cork beyond belief but also chipping away a portion of the bottle rim.

Screw driver too proved to be futile.

The remarkable perseverance of the engineers took it further to try a few more vain methods. Finally it was the combined employment of a screw driver, knife handle and an industrious engineer with lot of muscles that worked the cork into the wine bottle.

The engineers let a sigh of relief!!!!

With great enthusiasm the others collected around the genius engineer who finally did it!!! Without mention he is the hero of the evening and deserves to taste the wine first.

In fact the funniest events were to follow…..

Each time the bottle was tilted the floating cork came in and blocked the flow as if determined to avenge the insults and injuries impinged on it. The despise for the highly hauteur demonstration of civilities by a low bred cork was reflected in each of the engineer faces. It was difficult to figure out which one of insult, fury or frustration was the prominent emotion; all of them were evident with amazing audacity.

Then a brilliant engineer applied the screw driver once more for the cause.!!! The wine came descending first through the rusted edges of the screw driver and then through the broken bottle rim carrying pieces of cork wood all the way. Eventually their diligent efforts yielded a mixture of rust, wood, wine and fine glass!!!

Few of the engineers who were involved in the exercise of ingesting the uncanny mixture claims to have run it through purification processes unknown to man kind till date, which according to them makes it purer than the original wine itself.

Today you can find a bunch of engineers at no: 188 who maintain extreme contempt and loathe for wine bottles, which becomes instantly evident when you offer them a free bottle of wine!!!

A word of caution:

Confidential research experiments conducted under a highly constrained laboratory environment reveals that seven out of the above eight subjects preferred to have wine cork shoved up the nose of the instructor, who offered a free bottle of wine. The other subject preferred to have the wine bottle shoved up his nose.

- Blogger Boy