That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 06, 2020

This is so much easier than putting it back in the bottle.

It was the only way Mila could deal with her idiotic employers.

Waste not want not. And given what they paid her, if she wasn’t going to ‘want’, she needed to sneak all the scraps she could get her hands on. And some ‘pre-scraps’ as well – items that hadn’t had a chance to become scraps (since they hadn’t been served yet)

Mary took a swig of the Master’s wine. It was Wednesday. That meant that Mistress was out at her bridge game. And that meant that Master would strip to his underclothes and try to cop a feel again. She needed more wine.

At last, he had come, the lover of whom she had dreamed. This would go well. After all, she was all in clover—she had “love potion number 9” on her side, and she would make him drink as well!

And he swallowed up all he found

It was forty-eight hours til Lonnie came around”♫

(Steely Dan, “The Boston Rag”)

https://youtu.be/lXE_Q5ZtB18

Elsa never did learn how to balance a flute on her nose, but as long as there was bubbly in the bottom of the glass she practiced with the passion of a zealot.

Well, he did say that I would see better with a pair of glasses.

the only way she could deal with prince andrew was a stiff drink or six…

Zelda was determined to get that cherry stuck at the bottom of the glass.

Had a set of 4 Tiffany glasses like that. (Received them as a gift.) I finally donated them them to a group called Cats Unlimited. They would sell the items to help raise money to sterilize feral cats. A few months later My girlfriend comes home carrying my glasses and says, “Look at these cool glasses I bought from Cats Unlimited.” (Those glasses are a bit** to clean, by the way.)

Cleaning up after the guests leave NO TIPS!

Ok, I have to tell one more. I was a room service waiter at the Hyatt House back in the 70’s. I was on the morning shift. At the end of our shift we had to go around the hallways and clean up the dishes etc left outside the rooms. Often, there were entire bottles of booze, champagne and wine left by guests. Many a time my coworkers and I came back to the kitchen with a serious buzz on.

A young Mrs. Hughes

Drinking the liquor before it was served was going a bit too far.

Past the teeth, past the gums….look out tummy, here it comes!

“You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).

The maid was also the food and drink taster for the duke, even though he didn’t know about that part of her job description.

The chambermaid did not mind in the least cleaning up after one of her ladyship’s infamous “evenings in”.

It seems that the sprightly young maid/ from the straight and narrow hath strayed./ The dregs of each flute/ that she pours " down the chute"/ will end up getting her laid.

Helga holding the last note of Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” through her pretend microphone.

My first steady music gig was at a wine and cheese cafe, and I was not shy about gathering the leftovers at the end of the evening.

A wee nip for the nip slip.

At the Maxwell Manor, it was “Good to the very last drop.”

Her ladyship’s official taster selflessly making sure the amontillado wasn’t poisoned.

A Naughty Maid: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Knaus_-_Das_freche_M%C3%A4dchen.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/knaus_ludwig.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=3311 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ludwig-knaus 

https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/artist/knaus/ 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz43159.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate if necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here (6 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/07/31?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included same artist info URLs, the 2nd of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2508 (August 5, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Lines Written Upon a Car Insurance Bill/ The ancients viewed Time as a god, with wings/More moderns measured Time with metal springs./Time is a concept made by group consent/ and many wonder “where the time has went?”/ And, when the Muse upon me sudden springs/ impelling me to write these silly things/ She lures me with the rhythm and the rhyme/ and frequently I lose all track of Time./ A simple Limerick to start the day/some doggerel to speed you on your way/ and, possibly, a sly “de-nou-e-ment”/ and, if YOU like it, then MY Time’s well-spent !

She wasn’t much of a connoisseur, but she knew what she liked (all of it, basically).

Latisha, never the one to let anything go to waste, but sometimes the Tabaco butts in the glass taste funny, with the Dom Pérignon

“Come quickly, Brother Jacques ! I am drinking stars !!” (-Dom Perignon)

Darn! The fairy godmother isn’t showing up to help me like she did Cinderella. Hmmm. I wonder what I would look like if I became Pinocchio …