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The expression is a two-fer.
A two-fer.
Yeah.
Can you spell that two words?
A two-fer.
The first word, a, a, the letter a, a, like the, a, just a.
And the second word, obviously, is a noun and the spelling, listen to this, the number
two, f-e-r, m-hm, two, f-e-r, the number two, f-e-r, a, two-fer, a, two-fer.
Yeah.
Now sometimes we say a two-fer-one, a two-fer-one.
In that case, it would be a two, the number two, f-o-r, one, the number one, a, two-fer,
a two-fer is a two-fer-one.
Meaning you're at the store, you're at a restaurant, you're buying something and you can get two
for the price of one.
Right?
It's kind of like a 50% sale.
Isn't that fantastic?
Yeah.
Now, sometimes it really is a great deal and you can save a lot of money.
But sometimes maybe the product, the quality isn't that good.
Uh-huh.
And that's the case.
That's what happened to me a couple years ago.
I still remember the situation.
Check out the dialogue.
Why did you buy these underwear?
They're too thin.
Uh-uh, yeah.
Well, it was a two-fer.
And now we know why.
Sorry.
I only get good undies in the future.
What, what, what, what, what, what, what, yeah, that's right.
Good undies.
Undies, we studied undies in the last podcast, UNDIES.
Undies is kind of the cute word for underwear.
Mm-hmm.
Guys, you know, we wear underwear.
Uh-uh, women.
Actually, women wear panties.
Okay, women wear panties, P-A-N-T-I-E-S.
And guys wear underwear.
Of course, women can wear underwear too, but in America, typically, guys, we say underwear,
women, we say panties, okay?
You don't want other people, well, some people don't mind, but I don't want anyone to see
my underwear, right?
Yeah.
Usually, men's underwear, they're white, right?
Yeah.
Sometimes they're tight.
Sometimes they're loose.
They're all in underwear.
Anyway, one thing when we buy underwear, and this is for the guys, I don't know about
women, because women, you know, you have different rules.
Uh-uh, but for guys, when we buy underwear, we want, uh, you know, we want it to be good
solid material, right?
Not too thin.
Uh, I don't know, some guys like tight underwear, some guys like loose underwear, but, you
know, the quality of the underwear should be good, right?
It should be good.
And that was the problem here.
This guy bought some underwear.
You got a great deal.
It was a two-fer.
However, the underwear were basically see-through.
You can see, if you put your hand in the underwear, like where the butt would go, if you put
your hand there, you can see your hand through that thin.
Now, maybe, maybe you're trying to be sexy.
Oh, yeah.
That's my butt.
But in this case, no, and this happened to me, this happened to me a couple of years ago.
I went to the store, I saw some underwear, they were on sale, two-for-one.
I'm like, cool.
So I bought them, and I took them home, and whenever I buy new clothes, before I can wear
them, my wife takes them and washes them, that's good, right?
That's a good thing.
Anyway, she washed the underwear for me, and then when she was giving them back, she asked
me, what the hell is this?
And I'm like, what?
They're see-through underwear.
They're too thin.
And I said, well, it was a two-for.
And she said, and now we know why.
They were two-for-one because they're low-quality, garbage see-through thin underwear.
Yeah, I don't know what happened to them.
I guess she threw them away, and she went to the store and bought good underwear.
Be careful of the two-fers.
Be careful of the two-fers, right?
Yeah, be careful.
Two-for-one.
It's a great deal sometimes, but sometimes not so good.
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Why did you buy these underwear?
They're too thin.
Yeah, well, it was a toofr.
And now we know why.
Sorry.
I only get good undies in the future.
Why did you buy these underwear?
They're too thin.
Uh, yeah.
Well, it was a toofr.
And now we know why.
Sorry.
I only get good undies in the future.
