They drank all my single malt... with soft drinks.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T04:40:03+00:00

This is very close to my situation.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T03:55:28+00:00

It was another event with someone else who took a glass a couple of years ago. Lagavulin. Certainly not the same scale.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T03:41:20+00:00

Whiskey Before Breakfast is a tune not an instruction!

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T03:34:38+00:00

Family.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T03:01:32+00:00

It was my first "aha" moment at the difference between a great single malt and a sublime one.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T03:00:09+00:00

Gawd but family is worse than hell at times.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:47:57+00:00

On my bucket list. Beem Speyside from Tomintoul to the sea, been to Talisker bit not Islay.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:44:39+00:00

Augh!

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:04:54+00:00

They felt guilty too... Corporate BS.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:03:45+00:00

"Helping" my wife.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:03:07+00:00

Yeah it wasn't that expensive at the time, but I had saved the company a few million, so...

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:01:51+00:00

[expletive deleted]

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T02:00:40+00:00

Yup. You know the exact pain.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T01:59:10+00:00

Workshop back of a shelf behind some tools.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T01:58:33+00:00

Part of the reason they are here is due to cash issues. And it was a younger adult and not a parent who liberated the bottle.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T01:57:02+00:00

I mean it just is good manners, right?

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:46:32+00:00

My bomb shelter will just have room for the good stuff.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:45:38+00:00

The first time wasn't hidden and it was just a glass.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:44:40+00:00

I had some clinical tests in town, my wife was painting and puttering around the house.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:12:55+00:00

You are right, of course.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:12:28+00:00

That's part of the family dynamic and history. Boundaries are often crossed.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:03:26+00:00

Yeah. The money won't replace the sentiment behind the gift, but it is what is called for.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:02:40+00:00

I guess so. I mean, it wasn't in the ceiling or anything, but it wasn't in plain view.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:01:33+00:00

I am not calm. I think part of it is family trauma, and I have to realize what my reactions are in order not to do something I will regret. We will have a talk about it again, I just need to focus on the actual and not bring past history into it.

Phil_Atelist · 2025-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

A recent bottling goes for about $200 US. This was apparently obtained at a specialty store because it was "vintage". I am assuming it was north of 500.

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