A Winery Tour
I took part in a SoCal winery tour. Actual it was a wineries tour but that just sounds weird. We began our trek at 10:15 in the morning and ended up hitting four wineries. We returned home at 5:15 in the afternoon.
I know, I know. A winery tour. Really? Come on Jay…you’re more manly than that!
And I agreed with you at the start of the tour. As people started loading up into the shuttle the evidence revealed to me that winery tours are for couples, gay guys, and groups of women. In other words, winery tours are apparently kind of fruity.
I rationalized my participation this way: 1) My girlfriend really wanted to do this and I enjoy making her happy (well,I usually enjoy making her happy); 2) We would be enjoying some really good wine…and lots of it!; and 3) The combination of numbers 1 and 2 would most certainly equal me getting some that night. That was enough for me.
By the end of the tour my opinion had changed. I discovered that about one-third of the people on the wine shuttle were like me: guys who were convinced by their ladies to come. I found that me and these guys had lots in common and we ended up spending much of our time talking about sports, our work, and other manly things.
But I also ended up having a blast for other reasons too. It was great learning about the wine-making process and spending the day with my girlfriend in that setting was super fun.
Will I be going on a winery tour next weekend? Probably not. And I probably won’t be volunteering to go on one anytime soon.
But I did learn something valuable: a thing that seems sucky at first can become cool right in front of your eyes.
