Day 154: A piece of advice...

For you women folk out there still struggling to find Mr. Right, here's a little piece of advice I hope you find useful.  Ever hear men say, "Ah, she's like fine wine.  She gets better with age."?  Well, let me expand on that a bit by giving you a little lesson in wine. 

The best wine is served in the best, most complimentary glass.  It displays the richness of the color and helps to bring out all the wonderful flavors, complexities and uniqueness of each wine.  Little plastic cups do none of that.  They hide the true color and aroma of the wine and add a nasty, waxy taste to an otherwise perfect wine.  You would never drink an Opus One or Silver Oak through a plastic cup.  It would truly be a waste.  But something like Charles Shaw (aka "Two Buck Chuck"), well, you can drink that out of your dog's food bowl because it wouldn't much matter.  Think of it like this, great wine, great container.  Cheap wine, cheap container.

So here's the thing ladies.  Before you can even think about finding that right guy you need to take a hard look at yourself.  Are you an Opus One or Two Buck Chuck?  If you truly see yourself and believe yourself to be that high end wine, then you'll stop looking for Dixie cups and start looking for Riedels.  You'll be looking for that person that brings out the best in you.  His very nature will highlight and display all your greatness and he'll truly savor and care for every drop of you.

I've spent years listening to tales of sorrow from women who have been wronged by the so called "Mr. Right".  I've never heard anyone complain about a magnificent Bordeaux tasting horrible because they drank it out of a plastic cup.  No one would ever do that. So why, then, would you allow your wonderful essence to be carried in a plastic cup (aka Mr. Douche)?  You really do deserve so much better.

So just ask yourself each time a new man enters your life, "Is he a Riedel or a Dixie Cup?"