BEg2 chapter 3 water cooler talk

[Mark Kohut]

"Pinot gris [pinot grigio]  is considered an "early to market wine" that
can be bottled and out on the market within 4–12 weeks after fermentation.
[38] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinot_gris#cite_note-38>

Started selling like the cool new thing @2005 in the US, wikipedia says.
Prices vary but basically is a cheaper wine in general.
Synonyms

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 2:13 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On the second day of Daytona’s tenure with Tail ‘Em and Nail ‘Em Maxine
> vented about Horst:
>
> “…there I go, whining again.”
>
>      “Oh, I thought it was this fridge.”
>
>
> Builds the scene - she’s got an old, noisy fridge in the office.
>
> One of the best things about cozy detective stories with a touch of noir (a
> category I want to suggest as one of the easier niches in which to place
> BE, and a genre I want to champion as being much more user-friendly than
> pure noir) is the office of the investigator. Even a few more details will
> limn it enough to make the story filmable (imho.)
>
> Can’t remember if we get them.
>
> That conversation occurred on Daytona’s 2nd day - not overly formal, then.
>
>
> The current conversation, after Reg’s departure, sparks into being over
> Maxine’s search in the aforementioned refrigerator for some wine.
>
> Pinot E-Grigio - bupkis, that’s what I know about wine. I think it’s a
> white wine. Probably expensive.
>
>  Maxine’s comments to Daytona do not seem especially woke. In fact,
> somewhat rude, and potentially triggering to someone in rehab.
>
> Context being important, with her knowing Daytona’s upset, may she actually
> be trying to get her to spill?
> Or take her mind off Reg and his problems - he warned her to carry a gun?!
>
> She can be rude, but she’s not unsympathetic.
>
> Daytona gives the rudeness back, more cleverly than Maxine. We knew she was
> feisty when we walked in with Maxine in chapter 1.
>
> And, she does vent about the Jamaican fellow with whom she has problems
> similar to Maxine’s with Horst, although his wayward love seems to be for
> ganja (clashing with Daytona’s 12-step pledges) rather than for women named
> after cigars.
>
> “ Do not, ever, associate with nobody from Jamaica the island, he thinks
> joint custody means who brought the ganja.”
>
> Jamaica the island as opposed to Jamaica Queens.
>
> Also, Maxine perceives Daytona’s sharing as “the usual emotional cash-flow
> statement, full of uncollected receivables and bad debts” -
> workplace coloration of the narrative!
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