Setting: Express checkout lane, Safeway.
Woman at register [eyeing my bottle of 2006 Coppola Pinot Noir]: Now, sir, are you buying that because you like drinking it, or just to taste it?
Me: I've never had it.
Woman: How do you pronounce that? Cop-PO-la?
Me: Well, he pronounces it COP-pola, but back in Italy they probably pronounce it Cop-PO-la.
Woman [smiles]: That's what I said! So why this bottle?
Me: Oh, me and a couple of friends of mine are watching a movie about him tomorrow night.
Woman: About his wine?
Me: No, about a movie he made.
Woman: He's a winemaker and a director??
Me: Yup.
Woman [shakes her head]: Man. Sounds like someone oughta make up his mind.
Gotta love that CO-po-la. He does it all. His film IS Vietnam, by the way.
Posted by: barb on November 28, 2007 11:18 AMI would've taken her home ;)!
Posted by: brown on November 29, 2007 07:31 PMYour cashier was either very much on top of her toes with the battery of questions. Or she was drunk. :-)
Posted by: Romeo on December 2, 2007 01:38 PMHee! She's so wrong and yet so right at the same time.
Posted by: Rebecca on December 3, 2007 02:57 PM