A carafe or two short of a full case
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
If someone gives you five bottles of wine as a gift, is your first thought 'The cheeky bugger's gone and drunk one!"?
If not, then I think it's fair to say it should be.
The magic of numbers. If you get six bottles of wine this never occurs to you, does it? Even though your so-called friend may have actually bought seven and then drunk one. If you get four you don't suspect two have travelled the way of the throat. If you get three, however, there's always the suspicion that this is one of those three-for-a-tenner deals or, at the very least, a bogof deal from the supermarket.
If not, then I think it's fair to say it should be.
The magic of numbers. If you get six bottles of wine this never occurs to you, does it? Even though your so-called friend may have actually bought seven and then drunk one. If you get four you don't suspect two have travelled the way of the throat. If you get three, however, there's always the suspicion that this is one of those three-for-a-tenner deals or, at the very least, a bogof deal from the supermarket.
