Speaking of Memory

In the 'I could not make this up’ category, in my mother’s basement (yes, the same basement where we have previously found Little Blue Books, lurid paperbacks of the ‘30’s, a selection of mustards sampled by Napoleon, and 300 unused labels for the bottles of “medicine” produced by the still in the barn) on a shelf a few feet below the upper shelf bearing 8 linear feet of old 78 records, you can find a couple dozen very musty and dusty empty wine bottles, and this label:

EMPTY WINE BOTTLES
WITH GOOD MEMORIES



My mother has no memory of such a shelf or label existing,nor does she remember the occasions that prompted her to place the empty bottles on said shelf.