Comment by nerdwaller

It's interesting because many characteristics carry over to other areas. For example, we didn't have a wine opener at a hotel with my wife's brother (a youth pastor). Before I got back to the room he got started on it and used a knife to effectively drill out the cork, the obvious cost here is that you've turned the cork into sawdust. The wine was pretty terrible so i had him filter it through a coffee filter. It was still terrible, but as i walked to the room i thought about a few approaches and their associated costs, he busy did the first thing that came to mind. I found the "non engineering approach" very interesting. If course every solution has costs, his was sawdust filled wine. Mine was having to push a cork out of the way to pour.