SKIRMISHER

A hooded gunman barged into Michael Rabdau’s after-dinner party, threatening to shoot everybody. But when he was offered with some morsels of the good life — a sip of some fine wine and a bite of Camembert cheese — the gunman changed his mind.

“Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he demanded, according to D.C. police and witness accounts.

The five other guests, including the girls’ parents, froze — and then one spoke.

“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, blurted out. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”

The intruder took a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupéry and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”

Then he tucked the gun into the pocket of his nylon sweatpants.

“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said, looking around the patio of the home in the 1300 block of Constitution Avenue NE.

“I’m sorry,” he told the group. “Can I get a hug?”

The morale of the story: always have a darned good wine and cheese around the house.

Stumble it!