Ms. CoCoVanDerChic

T'is not easy being elegantly green.

Last Friday, I saw a Broadway show, Private Lives, featuring one of my favorite actresses Kim Cattrall. At intermission, my friend offered to buy me a glass of wine, I accepted his invitation, but not without hesitation. Yes, an occasional afternoon glass of wine is delightful. But intermission wine is hardly like having sipping a glass of champagne at a cabaret in Paris. You can hardly taste it let alone enjoy the glass over an hour of thought provoking drama.  After you wait in line and are served, you barely have time for two sips until an usher apologetically asks you to discard a practically full plastic glass of wine before entering the show.  Left with two choices. You must decide whether to gulp and toss or water a plant and ditch the glass. Either way you waste a plastic cup, wine and $5 to $10.

Neither choice is pleasant.  In my opinion a glass of wine is an artistic experience. You smell it, swirl it in the glass and sip it slowly with good friends, listening to good music, over thought provoking conversation. It is a part of the creative process. But intermission wine has always disappointed me until this Friday.
This time my experience was first class. Yes, I waited in line. But when we ordered, we received wine in a broadway travel cup with a straw which we could take into the show. And the real bonus, bring the cup to the next broadway show you attend and get a discount. Bravo, the adult sippy cup as I affectionately call it deserves a standing ovation. I can enjoy wine the way it was meant to be sipped without wasting another petroleum based product. 
4 months ago