An Abundance of Eggcups

Then there were the times when we thought that maybe there were just too many eggcups in the cupboard. After all, at the time, there were only the two of us and it was not that we tended to have boiled eggs all that often, maybe once or twice a month... if that. So, we asked each other, why did we have so many eggcups?

Of course, being the sort of people we were, we advanced many theories as to why we seemed to have an ordinary cupboard, but one which contained – seemingly – an extraordinary amount of eggs cups. Not only that there were several different sorts of eggcups in there: from metal ones – stainless steel – to porcelain ones to novelty plastic ones, and a couple that were made from a not-easily recognisable substance.

Another thing about the eggcups, apart from the seeming excess of them, was that none of them, not a single one of them, seemed very good at being an eggcup, either being too large or too small, or just too badly designed to hold, an egg in the position which was best for eating it. That is, except for on particular eggcup, made out of some gaudy plastic material, coloured bright red, in which a boiled egg would sit easily, properly and almost regally, except that when you put an egg in it, it fell over.

All of which goes to prove... something or other, but quite what that something is, I'm not really sure.