Broken down motorists and no booze

[Justwanttosayplease]

Cut to the chase. Live remotely on a hill and the drive runs down to the main road, which is starting to clog up due to an awesome snow storm and we are a long way either direction to neighboring towns. The fires are lit (we have two, not a stealth boast just frickin cold) and the house looks warm and inviting from the road. Have had stranded motorists before and put them up for the night. Big problem - no booze.

What can we do?

Yes Ubercorn87

If I mistrust them, at midnight I shall drink their blood. I have not eaten for days and the lasagne I made yesterday, of which there are a couple of spare portions, has no garlic in it.

Love gallows humour, keep it coming OP, I want to be stranded at your house, i have crates of alcohol in boot of my car and king size Rizla

Great stuff. My postcode is SW1A 1AA

Am I the only one imagining the film version of this... ?

Hurrah for finding the Tia Maria! We just walked to the the local shop (mistake, fifteen mins away max but the snow came down so much when we were in there it took over and hour to trudge back) and they were out of wine, bread, and milk, but I got what they did have - a twelve pack of cider and a litre of vodka, soft drinks, sausages and marshmallows. Hope I can have an enjoyable few days before we can get out again on those fine delicacies....?!

“We do not do needlework in this house.”

I am sad that you have missed out on drunken cross-stitch

Is drunken Cross stitch code for BDSM????

@Ubercorn87 RTFT and try to interpret the tone!

Ooh, I can see lights at the end of the lane, and movements. I am going out to investigate, with a torch and will be looking for evidence of shopping bags.

Why am I thinking of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

My DH almost got stranded in snow yesterday. He had 4 bottles of wine in his car! It was the only emergency provisions I could think of for him to bring home.

Smoke a fat one and play shithead?

To be honest, I didn't replace the wine as it would no longer keep in the house after we converted the spare bedrooms to hydrotropic cannabis growing plants.

If I was stranded in the snow and a strange lady came and offered me Tia Maria and a warm bed I'd be both amazed and terrified.
Rocky Horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or a benign Felicity Kendall type scenario?

Surely this is like Jesus and the loaves and the fish?

You invite them in, you offer up Tia Maria and it never runs out, like the fish and loaves cuz the drivers will bring out their own stash surreptitiously

Fab address. I’m pretty sure you’ll have more than two fireplaces though. Do ask the staff. Oh and sack the incompetent household manager.

You have monopoly and open fires, cats & lasagne...I have booze, I’m on my way...

I haven't left the house since Wednesday and am seriously regretting not thinking ahead to my Friday evening tipple. Very annoyed with myself right now. Invite them in anyway OP, warm tea and monopoly has to beat sitting in the cold.

I’ll have you know that not all the Irish drink, (Sad hits) Justwanttosayplease 😠 I’m so annoyed at your assumption that I’m going to pour myself another glass of wine. hic hic 🍷 🍷

Just to make you jealous. I’ve got whiskey, gin, captain Morgan’s, wine, beer, bison vodka, Smirnoff AND Tesco vodka, Bacardi and Prosecco. That’s what you call an emergency supply. 🤪

Glad you found the Tia Maria. DP had to go to work and took emergency supplies in case he was stranded, but no alcohol. I will remedy this immediately for future journeys.

And of course you offer to put up stranded motorists.

Oh Draylon I didn’t want to read & run! 💐💕. Hopefully someone will be along to help you out soon hun xx

"It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss left Denton that late November evening to visit Dr Everett Scott, ex. tutor and now friend of both of them. It's true there were dark storm clouds, heavy, black and pendulous, toward which they were driving. It's true also that the spare tyre they were carrying was badly
in need of some air. But they being normal kids and on a night out, well they were not going to let a storm spoil the events of their evening.

It was a night out they were going to remember for a very long time."

I have red wine, whisky, port, prosecco, rum, baileys and a few bottles of holiday type liqueurs in the cupboard. We are always stocked up.

Do you have bread, sugar and tinned fruit?

If prisoners can brew wine out of that so can you!

Mix it with the cannabis, flowers only of course for strength and you are the Chez Bruce for stranded motorists.

draylon Are you quite sure you can't manager to swing north a bit?

I may not have wine.

But my nipples are as hard as bullets.

Must be the cold.