Well, you're right !!!
It's no laughing matter !

Here, in France, that's what we call a REAL EMERGENCY/SURVIVAL situation .. <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ......
And that's why I have included a penknife WITH corkscrew in my french-EDC-urban-PSK .......

Concerning PSK and drinking matters, we do not rely on condoms (we prefer to use those for other purposes ........) <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Anyway, wine is only well kept in glass bottles ......!!.....

About champagne bottles, it's easy to open without removing the cork, if it is too hard to manually uncork :
just slide a somewhat heavy fork handle (for instance ; or the back of a heavy knife ...) along the bottle neck and hit the rim ( ?? is that the correct term ??). It should "explode" and champagne will flow freely ... that's called "sabrer la bouteille", in order to "sabler le champagne".


Alain