Well the battle for cost savings is in strongly in our favor. A large group of us went to COSTCO to purchase, breakfast foods, lunch stuff, snack and alcoholic beverages. The total for 6 families was $401.50. That included 2 cases of beer, a gallon of Rum, some mixers and a gallon of tequila….Ooops! Did I say gallon? I guess it might have been a gallon had I not dropped it in the lobby when I opened up the hatch of the mini-van. Yes, that’s right the tequila bottle busted when it hit the cement. The good news is that I saved the Rum with my foot and the mixers were in plastic bottles.
Because of my swift movement in saving the rum, I decided that I should be the one to go and buy another bottle of tequila. So we took all the food down to our room to divvy up and I went to the local ABC Store to pick up tequila. There were a couple different sized bottles, but none the size that we purchased at COSTCO. I did, however, see what appeared to be larger sized bottles in the back of shelf. I reached back to get the bigger one and as luck would have it, my elbow clipped the front bottle and I knocked it off the shelf. Yes, that’s 2 bottles of tequila broken within a matter of minutes. My luck was just awful. Anyway, I apologized, bought some extra stuff, along with the tequila and made my way back to the hotel.
After all the beer was put into our mini-fridge and the food was divvied up and sent off to all of the rooms, I went down to the pool. I had to share my story about the second bottle of tequila that nobody knew about at this point. They were already laughing at me because of the first bottle of tequila, but the second one had them thinking that I should be nowhere near glass. My brother-in-law said, “Look out, those things usually come in three’s. “ Great, just what I needed.
I went into the big pool with the kids while Gina went up to the room to get some lunch for herself. About 30 minutes come by and Gina comes back down to the side of the pool. She is spotted with large patches of blood. She is bleeding from her arm, her foot, her chest and her hand. It looks as if she had been in a bar fight and won… (The winners never have anything on their face.)
I jumped out of the pool wondering what happened and in typical Gina style, she says, “I’m okay, it was nothing.” Excuse me; blood dripping from your arm at an alarming rate isn’t nothing. She then elaborates to tell the story of how she got up to the room and opened the refrigerator and a bottle of beer fell out. It hit the linoleum floor and baseboard just perfect enough that it exploded, hitting her in the arm, chest, hand and foot. Yep, it’s was all glass and cap shrapnel. By the looks of things, it hit her pretty hard too. So there was my “Number 3.” Gina jumped into the pool to have the chlorine clean out the wounds a little bit, and then some big Hawaiian dude came over with plenty of band-aids for her wounds. She now has a couple of large bruises, but it appears she will be okay.So the good news is that there haven’t been any more broken bottles as of yet…
FYI, I am almost relaxed and on Hawaiian time… But not yet!
