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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Why would a wine do this, anybody know? It's not under pressure, (is it?) like champaigne or cola? Would this imply a fault in the bottle's glass ... or was the wine going bad?
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A flaw in the glass, more than any other likelihood.
A long time ago, Mr. H and I sat down to some takeout, in our living room, in front of the TV. We usually ate in the kitchen, but something was on that night, like the Olympics, or whatever. Anyway, we had pale living room furniture and carpets--the sofa and chairs were creamy in color, and the carpet was a pale beige/tan shade. Mr. Wonderful grabs up a bottle of Barbecue sauce--we were getting ready to eat ribs, I think--and the sauce doesn't want to come out, right?
So, he tilts it a bit more, neck down, now, and he taps it with the heel of his palm.
...and what to my wondering eyes should appear? The bottle EXPLODES. It explodes,
everywhere. It's all over my nearly-white chair, my nearly-white sofa, and my (thank god) Scotchguarded beige rug. I mean, this stuff was on him, on me, CERTAINLY on our now-inedible dinner (glass shards), and I have cats running for it, thinking that something FUN has happened.
What a bloody nightmare. I mean...I saw how hard he tapped it, it was nothing. It was just the right pressure at the wrong spot, and it went EVERYWHERE. Glass was broken in his hand, on the floor, in the food, now, having exploded...it took me about two hours to get it all cleaned up, and we still had to have experts in to salvage the chairs and sofa.
Just a flaw in the glass. Probably didn't happen to anyone else, because they didn't tap it in JUST the right spot, in just the right way. Probably what happened with Ralph's bottle--tapped one with the other, and kablammo!
Hitch