Chatted with strangers

Last night we went to a wine festival. Fancy, huh? Well, sort of…it is Texas and I don’t care if it is a wine festival, Tejas is Tejas! There were fancy couples, fabulous couples (I think you know what I mean there), and just folks who wanted to get their drink on! We are a little of the first group and a little of the last group! Oh, and there is food at the wine festival, for obvious reasons. It’s very important to have a tamale or two to soak up that cabernet! But what I really love about the wine festival is how everybody is friendly and “chatty”. I love to chat with people, even people I don’t know! I had a conversation the other day with my boss about “civility". I think that what I enjoy most about the wine festival is the mass of civility, ya know? Everybody is polite…excuse me, please, thank you. I think, as a general rule, that civility is not very stylish anymore. So, at the wine festival folks got a little dressed up (another aspect of civility that you don’t often see now a days…says the curmudgeonly old lady), put on their best manners, and enjoyed a little social time with strangers; it was fun. Here’s to civility...it’d be nice if it were like that without the aid of wine...not that I mind the wine!