"What are you doing with all that?" asked The Husband, holding a huge bag of seafood as he stared (very rudely) into my grocery cart.

"It's for work," I said, and then I pushed the cart down the aisle - away from him, away from his hands, hands that, if given the chance, would take what was in my cart out of my cart.

"Work?" I heard him say behind me.

"Yeah work. I'm going to write about it!" I exclaimed, thankful to have an excuse, a very good excuse - that was actually true! - as I continued pushing the cart to the check out stand.

Following quickly behind me, he asked, "Just how many bottles do you need?"

As many as I could get in the cart. But I didn't tell him that. What I told him was we needed all the bottles of wine for our guests that were in town visiting. What I didn't tell him was that there was no way the guests that were in town visiting were going to touch my wine. That's right, I said it, my wine!

If you're a flight attendant, or an aviation enthusiast, you probably own a lot of airline crap. Like me. Of course we don't refer to it as crap. Oh no, these are our treasures. Precious treasures. That belong in a museum. Like the one I USED to have in my guest room closet. I say USED to have because The Husband recently boxed up my airline museum and drove the contents that are now inside a giant grey tub to a storage facility nearby. Of course he did this while I was away on a trip.

Hey, that's fine with me. Now I've got more room for more crap. I mean treasures! Like AUS Boarding Pass 2006 Shiraz, a very cool bottle of wine I found at Costco.

There I was at Costco, leaning against the wine, impatiently waiting for The Husband to hurry up and pick out a few crab and shrimp from the crab and shrimp guy so we could FINALLY leave and start dinner, when I actually turned around and focused on what I happened to be leaning on. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was like god had sent them to me. And oh my god they were so cute! I had to have one. Or two. Or three. In case I needed to...umm...you know...share...or something. As I filled the cart, I couldn't help but think what a great flight attendant gift the bottles of wine would make, so I put a few more bottles into the cart. That's when The Husband appeared and I took off.

The name of the wine, you ask? I'm not sure. On one side of the bottle, the side that looks like a boarding card, it says Boarding Pass. On the other side of the bottle, the side that looks like an information card (the one located in the seat back in front of you) it says Grateful Palate Airwines. And around the top of the bottle, the thing that looks like a baggage claim ticket, it says AUS Boarding Pass 2006 Shiraz. Like I said, it's not exactly clear. What is clear is it's the most adorable bottle of wine I've ever seen. And it tastes pretty good, too.

WAIT!

Before you jump into the car to go and look for your own cute bottle of wine to add to your own museum, because I know you will, which is good, because you really should...do you think you could pick me up another bottle. Ya know...in case I lose a bottle...or something.

Thanks.

Gallery: Galley Gossip: Flying Crap / Wine

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