OK, who here is enough of a BT old-timer to remember our short-lived but oh-so-lively Curmudgeons' Corner?

Let me eshplain: A fellow Braintalker told me about this site today. I checked it out, saw all the familiar names, started to feel almost *festive.* Decided to settle in with a glass of wine -- actual wine, my first in months -- and catch up with all the invisible people.

And there my problems began . . . of course, I couldn't even wrestle the freaking cork out of the bottle. And it looks like such a *nice* bottle. "Promessa Rosso Salento." Hah -- false promises, apparently.

So, now that I'm all disappointed and grumpy and, well, curmudgeonly, I figured it was my duty to bring back that fine tradition.

Perhaps this thread will sink sadly to the bottom of the page, unnoticed, untended. But perhaps somewhere out on the board there exists another soul who has been waiting for just this chance to leap on the curmudgeonly bandwagon and get something off his or her burdened chest.

Nice to see everyone . . . I'd add my usual happy face, but someone yelled at me once for using it in a curmudgeon thread, so I will instead sign off with a poem:

"The Red Wine Bottle"

by bluesky carlos bluesky

so much depends
upon
a red wine
bottle

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
laptop.