Inspired by one of DiS’s favourite phrases, tell me about absolute blinders you’ve either played or seen people play in your life (excluding political ones).
My friends told me that when my parents got a new set of tiny and delightful gerbils shortly after I moved out (instead of getting a dog like they’d been going on about for a year), it was a ploy to get me to come home more often. If this is correct, my parents played an absolute blinder because I come home a lot more frequently than I otherwise would to see the not-so-tiny but still utterly delightful gerbils 
