He told her that it was his birthday today. What will you do? she asked. Oh, just go for a coffee with my wife, he replied. I think she took pity on him (perhaps thinking that this was a paltry way of celebrating a birthday, and not being aware that we don’t like big showy celebrations, that, in fact, just going for coffee suits us) for she thought for a bit and said: Have you ever been to ____? They do a marvellous bang bang chicken.
