I don't buy a bottle of wine all that often, and a move separated me from my belongings for a while. It was Summer, so I bought a bottle of wine here or there, and I didn't have any wine glasses. I didn't want to buy any because I knew I'd be reunited with my stuff. I tried drinking wine from coffee mugs - really kind of stupid feeling. Then I tried drinking it out of small orange juice glasses, which, somehow, made me feel like derelict. (I don't know why I think derelicts drink chardonnay out of sparkling, clear, cut-glass, juice glasses; but apparently that's what I think.)

I mentioned to my sister that I was drinking wine out of juice glasses, and she agreed that doing such a thing was enough to make a person feel like a derelict. The next time she showed up she brought me two long-stemmed glasses. That was much better, until I broke one of them. It shouldn't have mattered because I still have one, but who wants one wine glass?

I then decided to buy two wine glasses that had less fragile stems, but I saw what I thought was a twin to the singleton glass I had at home. So, I bought two shorted stemmed glasses, and one long-stemmed twin to the lonely one. I got home and discovered that the twin really wasn't a twin, so at this point I had two shorter stemmed glasses (good) and two unmatched, long-stemmed, ones (very disturbing to my orderly brain) - so disturbing, in fact, that even though I bought two bottles of wine a few weeks ago I haven't opened either of them. That's because it's too upsetting to 1) figure out which of my less than perfect glasses to use, 2) be reminded of all the lopsidedness of whatever glasses I have, and 3) be reminded that I need to decide whether to go buy a twin for the recently purchased twin, which would leave me with two short-stemmed glasses, two long-stemmed ones - and the one that doesn't have a partner.

It has occurred to me that I should buy a whole set for myself, give all the losers I have to someone else, and figure out - by the way - how much longer it will be before I can be reunited with my "real" belongings.

Oh - it's enough to make me open BOTH of those bottles of wine and drink them for breakfast!!

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