“What we've got here is... failure to communicate.”

While waiting for a conference call to get started, Memsahib is engaged in conversation with her colleagues on the call about Delhi, They’re all asking how it’s going and is she still enjoying it and then one of them pipes up with a request. This colleague, who would probably wish to remain nameless for obvious reasons (Hi there Steve), asks if Memsahib could purchase a black pashmina for him to give to his wife as he meant to pick one up when he was last in India but ran out of time.

She says fine and then says that as there is a price range with a normal one costing roughly £20 and a very nice pure one casting £80, what type of price range is he thinking?

At this point the other men on the call join in,

“Steve, is it her birthday?”
“Nope”
“Well it’s not Christmas, so it must be an anniversary?”
“Nope”

Upon hearing this there4 is a rumbling consensus of
“Well you can’t get the £80 one, it sets a dangerous precedent”

At this point, Memsahib interjects with the neutron bomb
“She has born your children, more than one in fact. Get the £80 one”

The men are silenced but dissent rumbles, fearing a wife gift inflationary spiral about to erupt.