One of the Rules

08 Jul 16
06:10 hrs

     About a week ago we, my Lobster and I plus the senior Loin Fruit, we're invited for a meal at Elric the Stalwart's residence.  Actually, I think our eldest son tagged along just for the change of venue and the promise of free vittles. Elric's Lobster was cooking pig parts on their flame pit and there were all of the requisite sides as well. All of this is is just preamble anyways.

     When one attends a function at a friend's house you might bring a side dish, which we did, or a bottle of wine that is either paired to the meal or as a gift and there fore it doesn't have to be. Elric and I are enjoying the vast multitude of craft beers so I brought one of those. My Better Half does not like beer or wine all that much but she does enjoy vodka mudshakes so she brought some.

     Now, the Crew Rule states that any alcohol that you bring to a function belongs to the host. Regardless, if you bring a half sack, a dozen or a case (a two-four) whatever you don't drink you leave. To take it back home with you makes you look like a Class A schmuck. I had hosted a BBQ for an old friend and his associates. I didn't know how many were coming and I only had so much and I wasn't about to enable those booze hounds so I simply said that it was BYOB. Sure, some brought half sacks and one brought a dozen. They certainly didn't drink it all as my cooler was more full at the end of the evening than before the party started.

      So there we were...attending to Elric the Stalwart's residence. Drinkables were brought and left, as is the norm but then I get a phone call from the hosts..."You left some bottles here. We'll drop them off". That would never happen if the left them at my place. They we would be consumed or saved for the next function at the Wayward Inn. 

     And, by the way, if some one gifts you a wine either drink it with them or shortly there after. Taking their bottle back over to their house is bad form too.