Best Answer For Best Excuse.

[gness]

If someone accidentally left a bottle of very expensive wine...intended for Christmas Dinner....at your house and.....you accidentally drank it.....can't replace it because you've no idea which bottle it was.....what it looked like.....
what calming and believable excuse would you come up with?.... :-)

Whoever gets me out of bother can have a best answer......xxx

[NoMercy]

Okay, not an excuse...rather a plan.

Tell them to come and collect the wine whenever suits, but they must promise to stay for a drink or 2. Ply them with alcohol (laced with Rohypnol if necessary) and then when they wake up the following morning on your sofa, in an embarrassing state of undress, tell them they guzzled the expensive stuff.

[murraymints]

if they mention wine..offer profuse thanks for the lovely gift and how much you enjoyed it before they can get the second bit of mistakenly left in !

[gness]

Jack......I was excommunicated in June 1971....if I told them I'd let a priest into my house they'd know I had scoffed their wine..... :-)

NoM....do you mind if I change my mind about your dinner invitation.......or at least not drink anything?...... ;-)

I could, Minty.......just to confirm I am bonkers and can't follow instructions...... :-(

[murraymints]

open another bottle..phone them when you are in your cups and exclaim.. " thish ere wine isss luvverly..hic...what's it called again ? hic "

[mallyh]

buy a bottle from lidls decant it and just pretend it was the dear one at Christmas dinner xx

[gness]

Give me an hour and I'll do that, Minty......x

I could, Mally.......just pretend I'd bought them a decanter I suppose....pity all my decanters were lost in the move.... :-(

[mallyh]

put a bit of glitter on a glass bottle and say its a designer decanter x

[zebo]

Dependant on your relationship with the 'leaver' you could say you were concerned about their recent fondness of and closeness with the grape, you felt it was your duty to protect them from further abusing their system and you took one for the team, drinking it for them.

[gness]

Thank you, Zebo......they might laugh and raise an eyebrow but it'd make me look kind and thoughtful!.... :-)

[gness]

Off out to scrounge some dinner from a friend who shopped today and will have a well stocked fridge......will take a bottle of wine...Aldi special.......xxx

[wolf63]

It evaporated and I took the empty bottle for recycling.

[gness]

Thank you all for joining the fun.......though I think Ed is probably wondering how AB became full of mischievous folk.

I think I'll mail her and ask if I can give multiple best answers but in the meantime Ellipsis has it for coming up with an inventive story which I'm sure will be believed....

You've all made me laugh.....though I'm still worried about accepting an invitation from NoM........

Thanks...Gx