Hearty Fool

Other day I was travelling in a British Airways flight. The guy sitting next to me spilled the red wine over my pant. It is said that holding the red wine at parties makes you look foolish. Drinking in flights too, I guess. The person apologized profusely but unnecessarily to a person who was eager to forgive because of the embarrassment that had caused.

He called up a steward and got paper napkins. Then pressed them over my pant to absorb the moisture. The guy, who was necking his female companion throughout the journey, was deeply repentant of his act and was trying too hard to minimize the damage even though I sheepishly protested his  help.

The steward who had been observing it then asked me whether I need the white wine. I couldn't really follow what he meant. He explained the white wine would remove the stain of the red wine. I wondered whether that's some quack science or British subtle humour. Anyway, I was quite confused whether I should be bothered about my wet pant at that moment or the state of the pant with the stain. He continued that adding the white wine would of course make the moisture worse. I said I preferred the things as they stand then.

Later I checked and found that the white wine indeed removes the stain of the red wine.