All I Want is a Flipping Glass of Wine!

Last night I tried to open a bottle of wine. We have a cheap corkscrew and after I got the cork out of the bottle of wine and was attempting to remove the cork, the corkscrew broke with the cork still attached. No problem, I had another old cork (key word being old) laying around so I put that into the wine bottle. As I was putting the bottle into the fridge, I noticed I hadn’t actually poured a glass yet (I guess the broken corkscrew distracted me). As I pulled the old cork out of the neck of the bottle, it broke off— leaving half in my hand and half still sealing the bottle. Ah man, now what I thought to myself. I found a small flat head screwdriver and tried to work the broken cork out of the bottleneck. All I succeeded in accomplishing was to break off more of the cork. I was left with a still sealed bottle. All I wanted was a flipping glass of wine, was it really going to be this hard? In my frustration, I gave up removing the cork and settled on pushing it all the way down into the bottle of wine. That worked, I finally got my glass of wine— with chunks of cork floating in it. I’m now thinking that maybe a screw top bottle isn’t such a bad thing…