Guy Goes Viral For Thinking He Invented Sitting At Home And Drinking Wine With Your Significant Other

I'm amazed by people who invent things that we take for granted. Like, at some point in human history, some guy looked at a lobster and said in the caveman vernacular of the day, "Yo, see that little monster-looking thing with the claws? I bet if you steam its butt and dunk it in butter it's pretty good."

Lo and behold, he was right. 

There are many instances like that throughout history — the guy who was the first to decide that if whatever was in a cow's udders was good enough for calves it was good enough for him springs to mind — but the only people more interesting than those innovators are people who are convinced they invented something that already exists. 

And has for not only centuries, but several millennia.

Take this guy who jumped on X to announce to the world that he and his lady had invented sitting at home and drinking wine.

According to a man named Collin Rutherford, no one has ever sat at home with a significant other and drank some wine until one fateful day in Buffalo, New York back in 2023.

Our boy, Collin — who according to his X bio made $518,000 in annual revenue and is on track for $1.5m in 2024; hell yeah, bro — believes he was the first person to crack a bottle of vino while sitting at home, a practice he calls bottle night.

Collin seems like a go-getter, but I don't think that's entirely accurate. As far as I'm aware the French practically only sit at home and drink wine and have for quite some time.

A big part of Bottle Night is talking to each other without phones or televisions. Do you know who used to do this a lot? Everyone who ever lived before the advent of phones and television.

In fact, I'm sure you've sat at home and shared some wine or other alcoholic beverage with your significant other at some point before Collin and his girlfriend shared that magical night in Buffalo.

I don't know what's happening where people think they've invented things that everyone has been doing for years. Remember when Gen Z thought they came up with laying in bed?

But I've got to respect Collin's guts to announce to the world that he invented something everyone has done since ancient Greece.

At least if he didn't invent drinking wine at your house, Collin did inadvertently invent a great new meme format.

Next time I crack open a bottle of Cabernet I'm raising a glass to Collin, his girlfriend, and the innovation they unleashed on the world last year in Buffalo.