My wife’s birthday coincided with the World Cup semi-finals between India and New Zealand, and like the match-that-never-was, it didn’t go well. She rang up her friends to ask them over, but the invitations were declined by their spouses who wanted to watch the cricket match in the comfort of their own homes. That laugh was on them at any rate because the rain washed out the match, so all they could do was watch old re-runs while eating whatever they could lay their hands on in their kitchen when they might have had party food.
Those who did agree to
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