Brooke's Gets Some Competition
If you see pink vehicles driving around Fredericksburg filled with giggling women, chances are they belong to Brooke’s Bubble Bus, a company specializing in wine tours for brides to be. Only brides to be.
Sexist, you say? Men are looking to sip wine and sing karaoke also, you say? Well, you can stop saying it — Announcing Willy’s Wine Wagon Tours: A competitor to Brooke’s that is only for men.
A typical Wine Wagon tour begins with a stop at a convenience store so participants can spend forty minutes debating which beer to buy. The car then follows one of Brooke’s vehicles at a discreet distance of about thirty yards to whatever winery they’re headed to. Pulling in a few minutes behind, the men remain in the car, crack open beers and talk sports. When the women emerge from their wine tasting an hour later, the men roll down the windows and shout from across the parking lot in what Willy describes as “attempts to connect.” The car then follows the ladies to the next vineyard, where the process repeats.
Upgrade options include binoculars, ice and a company chaperone whose sole responsibility is to repeatedly say, “Bro, you should totally go talk to them.”
Both companies charge a $300 cleaning fee if someone gets sick. Advises Willy, “Vomit at the wineries, not in the vehicles. Have some class.”
Billiam Coronel is a multiple Emmy-winning comedy writer who now lives in Texas Hill Country. He was on The Tonight Show multiple times and wrote on a dozen sitcoms including FAMILY GUY.