- Have you any spare wine ma?
- There’s no such thing as spare wine, Whitney.
- Well, do you have a bottle I could borrow?
- You don’t know the meaning of borrow. You take and never return.
- I do so.
- Where are the last dozen bottles you ‘borrowed’ then?
- When?
- Every time you’re going out you take a bottle and say you’ll return it but you never do.
- I bought you a bottle for your birthday.
- That was supposed to be a present.
- …and you never drank it.
- I didn’t drink it because as you well know, I don’t drink rosé.
- Do you still have it?
- Since March? Seriously?
- Who drank it?
- I did, one night in June.
- But you don’t like rosé
- There was nothing else. I drank it in desperation. I blame the covid.
- You blame everything on the covid ma.
- Well, I never drank rosé before I had the covid.
- So you’re a rosé drinker now?
- I said I was desperate but I’m not that desperate. It was a one off.
- I suppose I’d better go to the offo so, unless you loan me one from your stash in the garage.
- Who told you about that? Jesus Mary and Joseph, is nothing sacred in this house?
- Why are you hiding it?
- Why do you think? It’s so the likes of you and Koko don’t keep ‘borrowing’ it.
- This is the last time, ma. I swear.
- You can replace it tomorrow.
- But you have two boxes out there.
- I don’t care if I’ve ten boxes; you’d better replace it…and don’t be bringing back any of that rosé shite.
Feck sake. You can have nothing for yourself in this house.
Diary of a Dublin Housewife 
Kids! Yep, you need offsite storage. If you have a friend you can trust, switch stashes, you put your stuff at her house, she puts hers at your house. Helps when hiding Christmas gifts, too.
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I’ll be locking that garage door in future . Im past hiding Christmas presents 🙈
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Have you not realised it’s everything, they take the lot and never replace it. They’d take your life’s blood and swear to return it. They never do 💜💜💜
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As me ma says ” They’d take the eye out of your head and come back for your eyelashes”
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That’s children for you 💜
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Did she mean two boxes of wine or two boxes full of bottles?
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A box in the ear she’ll be getting off me if she keeps it up 🙄😝
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My son mentioned something he needed when we were in a store one day. I said, “They sell those here.”
He answered, “Why would I buy one when Dad has a perfectly good one in his shop?
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Oh I’ve heard mine say the same. Little feckers
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Kiddos are always so cute like that!
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