“Two wrongs do not make a right”, it is often said. And yet
I have disproved this axiom through the unlikely medium of homebrew.
Permit me to explain. For my birthday, I was given a
homebrewing kit – pictured.
I find the image on the box very misleading, because I don’t
think any woman has ever reacted like this to the idea of homebrew. Unless of
course she is thinking: “At last! Indisputable grounds for divorce!”
Home brewing is almost exclusively a male pursuit. I suspect
this is because “yes, it may taste awful; give me the worst hangover I’ve ever;
had AND the shits – BUT there’s 40 pints of it” is a thought which has never occurred to a woman.
But I was telling you how two wrongs can make a right.
Ever since I have had this homebrew kit my consumption of
beer has fallen to virtually zero. Why? Because I haven’t started making the
homebrew yet, because I am lazy. At the same time, I refuse to buy any more
beer when I have 40 potential pints
lying around the house, because I am mean.
So laziness and meanness have joined together to create
virtuous abstemiousness. And there you have two wrongs making a right.
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