Vintage View: Alessi coffee pot

YEARS ago, caught up in rush-hour traffic on a bus, I was thrust up against a warring young couple.

Swinging on a grab-hold with someone’s elbow up my nose, I shamelessly dipped in and out of the pair’s urgent conversation.

“Why ....? (insert name of down-trodden, hypnotised male). I simply just don’t understand how you possibly could have forgotten.”