{"id":515,"date":"2005-09-21T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2005-09-21T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T00:50:22","slug":"bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Bargains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it wrong to buy someone a wedding present and then not give it to them?<\/p>\n

OK, what if it’s chocolates and it’s only PART of a wedding present? The other parts being less edible and more special?<\/p>\n

What if it’s the same kind of chocolates that they gave away at their wedding, as favours? Then I would really be doing the sensible thing by not taking coals to Newcastle, so to speak. Because after your wedding, do you want to eat chocolates? No – you probably have lots<\/i> of leftover chocolates, because you wouldn’t just buy enough for exactly as many guests as you were expecting, right? And they would be your favourite kind because you chose them! I probably didn’t buy their favourite kind. That’s bound to be disappointing and then they might re-gift the chocolates and probably not to me because I got a lovely floral arrangement that appears to be bound to live forever.<\/p>\n

How about if I haven’t had a chance to drop off the gift yet, so the chocolates are almost a week old? Is it wrong to eat them then? I think it’s better to eat them, because they are High Class chocolates that have not been refrigerated. They have just been sitting in a gift basket with the other gifts, under my kitchen table, taunting me clear across the city while I’m working. While I’m working I hear them. They sing. <\/p>\n

What if I promise not to drink the wine I bought them, also in the basket? <\/p>\n

OK…<\/p>\n

What if I promise: <\/p>\n