Today after lunch, my wife and I went to a local grocer. While there, my wife got 3 pears for our friend at work - who likes to eat them.
Anyway... when we got them back to work - and I was walking back to my office, I made the quip, "We only got a pair-and-a-half of pears."
My wife - always the first to correct me said, "No... we got 3 pears."
Again, I repeated that "We only got a pair-and-a-half of pears."
This went on for a couple of times - the lady that we bought them for... I think that she caught on right away... my wife was a tad slow.
So, I went over to the pears and said... "We got a pair..." pointing to two of the pears, "...and a half..." pointing to the third pear, "...of pears."
She finally got it. I almost got hit.
Regards,
Jim TX