A little while ago I was at a dinner party thrown for the benefit of a group of local Rotarians, one of whom is a good acquaintance of mine. He invited me along as I have been knocking on the door for some while now and I have to confess that the free benefits that I've done for the local Rotary Club with my barber shop combo have not been entirely altruistically motivated.
Anyway, it turns out that I reached a tipping point vis a vis my eligilbility to join this elite group and it all came down, apparently, to one thing I said during the course of the meal. We started with a white moselle folowed by a claret and I made the comment that our host showed excellent taste by serving a moselle before the claret whereas had he served a Rhine wine before the claret it would have been quite barbaric.
That one utterance just went to show the Rotarian maxim of "If we see us in you, you become us" in action. I've now been officially invited to join.
Wow! Don't know when I'm going to come down from the ceiling -this is truly massive!
Anyway, it turns out that I reached a tipping point vis a vis my eligilbility to join this elite group and it all came down, apparently, to one thing I said during the course of the meal. We started with a white moselle folowed by a claret and I made the comment that our host showed excellent taste by serving a moselle before the claret whereas had he served a Rhine wine before the claret it would have been quite barbaric.
That one utterance just went to show the Rotarian maxim of "If we see us in you, you become us" in action. I've now been officially invited to join.
Wow! Don't know when I'm going to come down from the ceiling -this is truly massive!
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