Have any of you guys seen the manual?

More than 50 years of being a man, it still baffles me how complicated it all is

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Sometimes, late at night, I lie in bed thinking about the time a durian seller and I got into the lamest brawl ever.

It was the late 1990s. He was upset I had eaten a couple of samples and left without buying.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on June 16, 2019, with the headline Have any of you guys seen the manual?. Subscribe