Only Once

There are some things you can only do once. Well, I guess in some ways you only do everything you do once because nothing you repeat is actually the same, it's an iteration of what came before....but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the ability to rationalize calling for a Chinese banquet delivered to your house, picking coins from the sofa cushions to pay for it, because last night you had your Hen Party and tonight you're hungover and hungry. Chinese food by delivery is not something you ever do and, to be frank, you'd never eat it in bed. But tonight, tonight you are hurtin' and could possibly eat your fiancee's arm off if you don't have some white rice--not from a bag, not from home, from a Chinese restaurant, OK!--and you've already changed into your pyjamas and you have just enough coins in the jar. That's when you can only do something once. That one glorious moment of relishing in the fact that you are so in love--and last night you were totally wasted.