Blame it on the Ghost

Last Saturday night, which was really busy…the boss decided to bring up some bottles of red wine, so we could get a head start on stocking up for Mother’s Day. So I gave him a list, he started hauling up wine…placing the bottles on the back bar…when I had a second I started putting them in the wine racks above the back bar. (If you’re short, you can’t reach these racks) I’m 5’8” and have to really stretch to reach the bottles at the top of the rack. So anyways……I put a bottle in the rack, and just after I pulled my hand away, the bottle slid out of the rack, I didn’t have time to stop it, (it was one of those slow motion moments) as I watched it fall right into a bunch of scotch bottles.

Oh No! How many are going to break?!?! I held my arms in front of the scotch bottles, thinking I could at least stop them from all falling on the floor, closed my eyes for a second as the wine bottle hit them, (didn’t want to get flying glass shards in my eyes) as soon as the initial crash was over, I opened my eyes, the wine bottle was on the floor, intact (it fell on the rubber mat) and much to my amazement, only one bottle broke!

I picked up the bigger pieces of broken glass, threw them out…..the rest of the clean up would have to wait until later, when it slowed down.

As I later reviewed the situation in my mind…..I decided to blame it on the ghost. I had heard a story, from several eye witnesses, about 3 wine bottles shooting out from the rack, actually shooting out about 4 feet, and crashing into the bar itself. Unusual behavior for inanimate objects. So I decided that the bottle had a little help in falling out of the rack.

Sure, there’s probably a logical scientific reason for why the wine bottle slid out of the rack, but there have been ghost stories flying around about this place for decades….many many stories, with many credible witnesses. So I’m going with the ghost story….why over think it?