Here’s a bit of wine-maker jargon for you. Our friend Wayne is in town for a couple of days. He and Rob have been talking wine and wine making like they’ve both been starving. I’ve been listening and mostly staying out of their way. But this, this I had to share.
We were at dinner and they were talking about this new winery that Rob has started working at ((Did I forget to mention that?)) and he said something about how all the grapes were going to be delivered in FYBs.
I said, “What’s an FYB?”
Wayne looked at the table next to us and then said, “Well. F stands for something that’s not polite to say at a restaurant.”
I stare at him for a second before I get it. “Really?”
“Yes. With an -ing. Then the other two are Yellow Bin.”
Rob confirmed. Apparently the F***ing Yellow Bins are so universally reviled for being hard to work with that this is an industry standard term. Everyone calls them FYBs.
Yay Rob’s new winery gig!
Indeed!
Reminds me of high school when my friends and I used to greet someone’s supposedly great news with “BFD.” Eventually, my baby brother asked what BFD stood for, and somebody explained, “Bandon Fire Department.” (Distantly plausible, since the Oregon coast town of Bandon was just 12 miles down the road from our town of Coos Bay.) That puzzled him for a long time.
We have a similar term in west Texas. BFR, stands for Big F*****g Rock. They are handy for pounding in stakes for tents and dispatching rattlesnakes. I’ll use a BFR on a snake over a .22 rifle any day!
Ha! I’ll suggest to Rob that he get a BFR to deal with the FYBs.