@futurebird@sauropods.win I noticed at some point that the kid who occasionally works at the corner grocery heard "a couple of" as a nonspecific quantity. He would always ask "so how many?". I found this fascinated and have tended to buy stuff in pairs ever since. He now assumes I mean two, but always double checks. "And a couple avocados please" "So is two okay?" .... I've bit my tongue so many times to stop from asking: "If the next customers through that door happen to be a couple who walk in together holding hands, how many people would they be?"