A Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience

What’s a man supposed to do with a bottle of 1999 Vintage Dom Perignon at 8:40am in the morning in a Tokyo hotel when he has to fly out at noon? That’s the question I pondered, having received the gift after giving a talk to LVMH. I recalled a similar situation from a few years ago, when I had been given a case and decided to take a champagne bath. Today, just one bottle wasn’t quite enough for that; so I decided on a chapmpagne shower instead of a bath. I uncorked it, had a little sip and proceeded to the shower … Ah, what a pleasure!!! As I stepped out of the shower, still stark naked, I suddenly felt slightly tipsy – or so I thought – until I realized that the building was shaking and the window-filled walls moving. Yes, it was the 7.2 (richter scale) quake on Saturday morning that you have been reading about. The Japanese infrastructure for earthquakes is amazing, though. So it was a kind of scary fun to swing back and forth after the champagne shower on the 37^th floor of the Royal Park Shiodome hotel.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience, I hope.

Comments

[Jeff Snowden]

While I have never taken a Dom shower, I did recently get my wife to pie me in the face with a lemon pie because it looks so fun on tv.