Recorking the Bottle

[hotwine]

A waiter at a San Antonio restaurant offered to do that for us not long ago. I guess we were lingering over our dinner a bit too long to suit him. We declined, and finished it at our leisure.
I think we would probably have run afoul of the Texas "open container" law if we had tried to take it home with us. That law states in effect that possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle constitutes evidence of DWI; and the container is considered "open" if its seal is broken.
I think our waiter was really trying to push us out the door to make our table available for other customers. Maybe your waiter was just trying to sell you another high-margin bottle of wine. In both cases, the motives of the waitstaff are questionable; I really don't think they were trying to do us a favor.