After I left my sister's house today, I was driving home and something inside me told me to turn and go to that great big liquor store that I seldom go to. I had past the street to turn to it on, but I made a U turn and headed back instead of heading home.
So I had this mission to get Maynards wine, also known as Merkin and Cadeuses. And btw Maynard is the singer for Tool and A Perfect Circle.
So I wandered around looking for his wine. Maynard is in love with wine and wine production. He has wine grove in Arizona that crosses the boarder into New Mexico. He has a new crop hitting the market right now.
After about five minutes of wandering around the store, a clerk walked up to me and asked if I needed help finding a wine. I said yes, I'm looking for Maynard. He knew right away and lead me to the area, and then he says, "well Maynard was just here a few hours ago. What? I asked in excitement. He said "Maynard was there to do wine tasting with them of his new line.
Yeah, I could understand that. Yet, as I talked to this fellow, I kept thinking I have no idea what Maynard looks like as when I saw him in concert, he sings, but has no spotlight on him, he pretty much sings in the dark. I had bought Perfect Circle and Tool on digital so I have no pics of them and I never did a search on them. So here is this fellow and I'm getting the feeling that something is amiss. Oh sure Maynard was here earlier, maybe he was lying to me to get me to buy expensive wine. Or maybe he was Maynard. I kept feeling like something was out of wack. Really would he use the lie that Maynard was just in the store hours before? Would he use that to get me to purchase the wine? Little did he know that I was going to buy Maynards wine no matter what, because I had to replace a bottle I drank one night while being angry at my husband.
Later I talked to my son about the experience and well, it's a 60% chance that it was Maynard, and a 40% chance that it was just some schlep telling lies to get me to buy a product.
Why would Maynard do this? Well, I have seen other celebrities jump into sales positions like I saw, Lindsay Vaughn sell tickets in the Vail ski area booth. So it's not an impossibility that it happened. But what's the meaning anyway? Who cares? Is he going to help my startup? Is buying one bottle of his wine going to make me a better person? Is it going to help him sell more? There really is no benefit as to the status of a person selling anything, unless they are going to join you in the quest to make humanity better.
If I become a person of well to do, I'm going to search for the human beings in the world who will make the world better and I'm going to invest in them. And I will celebrate with them with Maynards wine!
If I met you tonight Maynard ~ You were very kind and helpful. Work with me in the future, we shall toast your wine to the people who overcome hardship lives to make a change that helps others!
You do make great wine!
~ jana always on the side of AMAZING
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