A Study in Merlot

Hail fellows, well met, greetings, salutations and thank you for attending this study in Merlot, a chronicle of man's passion for excellence, and a compendium of the finest epicurean pursuits in the history of history. As Oscar Wilde observed: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." As I hope you shall see in these studies, Merlot is certainly not "most people" in Wilde's sense.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Dr. Wu's New Deal

As it turns, my trusted assistant, Dr. Wu's is something of a leopard who has been baring his spots for the past year, and yet he's also something of a bear to deal with on the subject of shutting down his new and varied business interests, which range from spam email operations offering penis pills, gambling, vitamins, pornography, and oddly enough an online kidney exchange. So successful is Dr. Wu's operation that he's made us an offer to buy out our Boxed Wine Consulting Service, boat slip and all.

He's holding firm in his newly discovered lines of business. Wu's background as a former Wall Street "quant" and computer modeling expert makes him almost too well suited to pluck the low hanging fruits of web based virtual business world. Curiously, another habit of which the Dr. has also re acquired is lubricating his love for Gin, and past 6pm, he's impossible to talk with. Dr. Emily is the only person with whom he cares to speak, and to make matters worse, he periodically asks her: "may I touch your tits". Dr. Emily for her part, is not amused by our Research Coordinator errant, if you will.

I suppose we should count ourselves lucky he has no taste for boxed wines, which means our stockpile of free samples from our clients has remained safe, at least from Dr. Wu. However, our Riverside Park employees are another storied mess. After their shifts, collecting empty wine bottles from NY's finer restaurants, each has grown accustomed to drinking some of the profits, if you will, from our stored Boxed Wine supply, which Dr. Wu had guarded so well, before his foray into his not nefarious businesses.

Apparently, Dr. Wu has also run afoul of most of our remaining staff for his efforts to monopolize the affections of all of the "working girls" who've been enlisted to operate an "in call" service on the boat. The Dr., it turns out becomes quite the lover when under the influence of drink, and many of the girls, and many of their supporting staff have been put off by his propensity to "eat the profits" if you will. Moreover, his love on onions, garlic, ginger and curry makes this a particularly unpleasant experience for the "service providers" who've entertained his proffers. It's a fine mess, a social networking disaster of the first order.

At this rate, I'm afraid it will take a great effort to rekindle our foot hold as New York's premier Box Wine consulting firm.

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