A Metaphor

I just received an (unsolicited) package of “Austerity”-brand wine, marketed as an inexpensive booze for our age of austerity. Appropriately, the wines were packed in shredded $1 bills.

Perhaps because of this austere packaging, one of the bottles arrived broken and empty:

Now I’m surrounded by broken glass and a rancid alcoholic smell. A metaphor for our times, indeed.