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This is a recently revised part of a story I have on another art site.
The setting takes place in El-Minya, Egypt. The year of this part of the story is 1972.
The Rat Family are multi-billionaire elites.
The Rat Family palace estate is located south of El-Minya on more than 20 acres of Nile riverfront property.

As a teen, Zander seemed like he had no sense of responsibility, and couldn't be relied on for anything. He'd invite friends over to his dad's estate for parties, and leave several rooms of the estate in a major mess, and with things broken, for the house servants to clean up.
In early June of 1972, a week after graduating 8th grade, Zander and his motley friends broke into Daddy's wine cellar and got drunk on Daddy Rat's cognac. Some of Hanan Rat III's cognac collection was worth well over 10,000 pounds per bottle, right up there with Courvoisier L'essence, Remy Martin Black Pearl, Le Voyage De Delamain, La Fontaine De La Pouyade, Tres Vieux, Chateau De Monifaud and Hine Tromphe...There were even some bottles of Yamazaki, Japaneese whiskey costing as high as 20,000 pounds per bottle.
Zander and his motley friends could not readily find a cork puller, so someone thought of a nifty idea of how to open the bottles...Zander and a friend went to the mansion and brought back some mugs and glasses from the kitchen...Then a nearby cellar support column made a peachy bottle opener...Just smack the neck of a bottle off against a column and pour it into mug or glass...Stupidly enough, they even did the same with those bottles that had caps and glass stoppers.
"Hey hey heeyyy! Smack 'n' pour!", a mink friend of Zander remarked as a civet friend poured him a coffee mug full of Otard Dupuy from a broken bottle.
That idea did not work so well with the decanters though...Ferris Fox slapped the top of a baccarat crystal decanter of Remy Martin Louis XIII against a column, but it busted completely putting a cut on Ferris' paw...Had Ferris Fox been paying attention, he would have noticed the decanter had a paper wrapped, glass stopper and not a cork...Oh well, "Duhhhh". Fortunately the cut on Ferris Fox's paw was not serious...Had it been, it would have been mighty tough trying to explain to a doctor how you got your paw cut from a broken cognac decanter in a country where alcohol beverages are illegal...especially with the smell of King Louis XIII cognac on your paw while waiting to get stitches at a hospital emergency room.
They were just lucky not to have ingested any broken glass...which Daddy Rat would have probably been sued, with criminal consequences to have followed under Egyptian law, had that happened. Zander and his motley friends didn't give a shit how expensive Hanan III's cognac was, or the fact they were too young to be drinking, or the risk involved of getting everyone into trouble over alcohol beverages which were illegal under Egyptian law.
Then Zander and his friends found one of Daddy Rat's grand prizes of the wine cellar. It was a decanter like bottle with this silvery metal on one side, and with a golden insignia on front. Zander and his friends were amazed by all these tiny sparkly things all over the bottle...So Zander and his friends took that one along to pass around on their way out to the estate tennis court...It was a bottle of Henri IV Cognac Grande Champagne at a price of nearly two million pounds. The bottle was adorned with 24 K yellow gold and sterling platinum, and 'those tiny sparkly things' all over the bottle that dazzled Zander and his friends were more than 6,000 tiny, certified diamonds. When they were done with the bottle, one of Zander's friends tossed it out onto the lawn away from the tennis court, in the same manner as someone would toss an empty "nickle 'n' dime" wine bottle.
Not very long thereafter, a ferret friend of Zander vomited out on the tennis court...The young ferret had been hitting on some of that Yamazaki Whiskey before indulging in the cognac with everyone else, and about now, it wasn't setting very well in his tummy...But oh well, everyone was having 'lots-a-fun'.
And when Zander and his motley friends got drunk enough, they made a game of swatting at fish in the Nile River with expensive, Olympic grade tennis racquets such as Babolat and Spalding, and ruining them. A few of the Spalding wood frame racquets were even allowed to float away down river...Oh well, Daddy will buy new tennis racquets...It's only money.
To Zander and his friends, life was just one, big, wild, happy-go-lucky party.

However, Zander's siblings had more positive ambitions in life. Hanan IV had begun college, gotten married to Joan Seigler Rat (now Joan Iscelberg Rat), and he and Joan were already expecting a cub. Sister Givol had graduated high school that year, and was going steady with a male friend, Joseph Finnbecker Rat.

Description
This is a recently revised part of a story I have on another art site.
The setting takes place in El-Minya, Egypt. The year of this part of the story is 1972.
The Rat Family are multi-billionaire elites.
The Rat Family palace estate is located south of El-Minya on more than 20 acres of Nile riverfront property.

As a teen, Zander seemed like he had no sense of responsibility, and couldn't be relied on for anything. He'd invite friends over to his dad's estate for parties, and leave several rooms of the estate in a major mess, and with things broken, for the house servants to clean up.
In early June of 1972, a week after graduating 8th grade, Zander and his motley friends broke into Daddy's wine cellar and got drunk on Daddy Rat's cognac. Some of Hanan Rat III's cognac collection was worth well over 10,000 pounds per bottle, right up there with Courvoisier L'essence, Remy Martin Black Pearl, Le Voyage De Delamain, La Fontaine De La Pouyade, Tres Vieux, Chateau De Monifaud and Hine Tromphe...There were even some bottles of Yamazaki, Japaneese whiskey costing as high as 20,000 pounds per bottle.
Zander and his motley friends could not readily find a cork puller, so someone thought of a nifty idea of how to open the bottles...Zander and a friend went to the mansion and brought back some mugs and glasses from the kitchen...Then a nearby cellar support column made a peachy bottle opener...Just smack the neck of a bottle off against a column and pour it into mug or glass...Stupidly enough, they even did the same with those bottles that had caps and glass stoppers.
"Hey hey heeyyy! Smack 'n' pour!", a mink friend of Zander remarked as a civet friend poured him a coffee mug full of Otard Dupuy from a broken bottle.
That idea did not work so well with the decanters though...Ferris Fox slapped the top of a baccarat crystal decanter of Remy Martin Louis XIII against a column, but it busted completely putting a cut on Ferris' paw...Had Ferris Fox been paying attention, he would have noticed the decanter had a paper wrapped, glass stopper and not a cork...Oh well, "Duhhhh". Fortunately the cut on Ferris Fox's paw was not serious...Had it been, it would have been mighty tough trying to explain to a doctor how you got your paw cut from a broken cognac decanter in a country where alcohol beverages are illegal...especially with the smell of King Louis XIII cognac on your paw while waiting to get stitches at a hospital emergency room.
They were just lucky not to have ingested any broken glass...which Daddy Rat would have probably been sued, with criminal consequences to have followed under Egyptian law, had that happened. Zander and his motley friends didn't give a shit how expensive Hanan III's cognac was, or the fact they were too young to be drinking, or the risk involved of getting everyone into trouble over alcohol beverages which were illegal under Egyptian law.
Then Zander and his friends found one of Daddy Rat's grand prizes of the wine cellar. It was a decanter like bottle with this silvery metal on one side, and with a golden insignia on front. Zander and his friends were amazed by all these tiny sparkly things all over the bottle...So Zander and his friends took that one along to pass around on their way out to the estate tennis court...It was a bottle of Henri IV Cognac Grande Champagne at a price of nearly two million pounds. The bottle was adorned with 24 K yellow gold and sterling platinum, and 'those tiny sparkly things' all over the bottle that dazzled Zander and his friends were more than 6,000 tiny, certified diamonds. When they were done with the bottle, one of Zander's friends tossed it out onto the lawn away from the tennis court, in the same manner as someone would toss an empty "nickle 'n' dime" wine bottle.
Not very long thereafter, a ferret friend of Zander vomited out on the tennis court...The young ferret had been hitting on some of that Yamazaki Whiskey before indulging in the cognac with everyone else, and about now, it wasn't setting very well in his tummy...But oh well, everyone was having 'lots-a-fun'.
And when Zander and his motley friends got drunk enough, they made a game of swatting at fish in the Nile River with expensive, Olympic grade tennis racquets such as Babolat and Spalding, and ruining them. A few of the Spalding wood frame racquets were even allowed to float away down river...Oh well, Daddy will buy new tennis racquets...It's only money.
To Zander and his friends, life was just one, big, wild, happy-go-lucky party.

However, Zander's siblings had more positive ambitions in life. Hanan IV had begun college, gotten married to Joan Seigler Rat (now Joan Iscelberg Rat), and he and Joan were already expecting a cub. Sister Givol had graduated high school that year, and was going steady with a male friend, Joseph Finnbecker Rat.